Re: [Mind's Eye] time

it is a fantasy that floats through my mind when take the same route to walk...when i see the same trees ...the same bushes...the road...the rocks....it wonder if these things do not exist in time...for me my added memory and perception ttell me i go there for the fortieth time...i walk there... i exist in time...but what about that rock...does it exist...in time...i know i am not very clear...but ...i have come to know time...with my existence...i exist...we exist...we exist in time...like ...bergsons accumalation...although i did not go through his complete philosophy...do i go and meet the day...that has already been prepared...not to enter into determinism...it is majorly with time i am concerned...the ripples have already spanned and intermingled have they...forgive me if i become inarticulate

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Chuck Bowling <aardvarkstudio.chuckb@gmail.com> wrote:

My thoughts on time are a little bit technical. To talk about it I'll need to pull together multiple ideas.

To start, there are two different sets of rules for understanding spacetime. The first are the rules that the macro universe obey. These are the rules that define the reality that we can see and hear.

The second set of rules are rules for the quantum universe. These rules appear to have very little to do with the way we understand the universe at the macro level. The quantum universe is a universe that consists entirely of probabilities.

One of the ideas having a fundamental impact on the quantum universe is something called a Planck length. This is the distance at which the effects of the quantum universe become more apparent than the effects of the macroverse.

In the quantum universe a particle is actually both a particle and a probability wave that can exist in multiple places at the same time or can appear in one location and in the next instant appear half way across the universe (although the probability of this happening is very low it is still possible).

A very fundamental concept is the idea of a cycle or oscillation. Every particle of energy or matter in the universe vibrates at a given frequency.

Now, imagine dropping two stones into a pond. The ripples that spread out from each stone intermingle creating troughs and hills of interference with each other. I think that time is the intermingling interference pattern of a nearly infinite number of particles interacting with each other.

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 2:55 AM, the taoist shaman <bryanobo@gmail.com> wrote:

is time real or an illusion created by change ?   if indeed time is an
illusion created by change shurely this must have meaning, some
ramification on , at the least, the way we preceive ourselves and our
universe to which we are a part .  if so what is the effect of this
altered preception?

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