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M from Fraggle Rock on 2001-06-25 00:06 [#00010884] | |||||||||
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What do you suppose is the smallest unit of time? My favorite definition of time is "actions in space". It's a lot simpler when you think of it that way. Why can we remember the past and not the future? I CAN remember the future. It's a totally twisted genetic mutation that I have. Too bad the future is nothing worth remembering though. If you have any questions about what the future holds, just ask me and I'll tell you- unless of course you have this mutation too. |
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M from Fraggle Rock on 2001-06-25 06:48 [#00010893] | |||||||||
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It just occured to me. It is obvious what the smallest unit of time is. Naturally the quickest action possible in space is the travel of light photons. Therefore, the "time" it takes for light to travel the smallest distance possible, IS the smallest unit of time possible (in this universe at least, perhaps in another something is faster than light.) Now, what is the smallest unit of distance? Perhaps the smallest unit of time is the measurement of light to travel one quark. |
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M from Fraggle Rock on 2001-06-25 06:49 [#00010894] | |||||||||
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Any questions? No. Ok, class dismissed. |
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M from Fraggle Rock on 2001-06-25 06:57 [#00010895] | |||||||||
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Sorry, right, right, I put "cheese" in the title so I had better talk about it some. I actually don't like cheese very much when it comes to eating it, except for string cheese. That yellow cheese, Jack cheese I believe it is called, grows some interesting blue mold. "Cheese" is often regarded as a sort of funny word I suppose. That and "monkey". And not wearing any pants is funny too. So I propose the construction of the following incomplete sentence. "monkey cheese with no pants." This will be my incomplete sentence of the month. "What would you like to eat for breakfast?" monkey cheese with no pants. (in school)"Does anyone know the answer? Yes, yes you in the back?" monkey cheese with no pants. (yells really loud in the library and runs away) MONKEY CHEESE WITH NO PANTS! (grafitti's in assorted colors on the bathroom wall) Monkey cheese with no pants. |
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M from Fraggle Rock on 2001-06-25 07:13 [#00010898] | |||||||||
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I bought a time machine on ebay last thursday. It runs pretty good, but I'm kinda pissed off because the mounted cd player broke. The things a damn fuel hog too. I went back in time and created this site under my alias, phobiazero, for you all to enjoy. Actually, I think I'm the only other one here besides YOU. I just keep myself (and you I suppose) amused by constantly posting all day with a different name. I even reply to myself with different names. It's fun. |
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cheech wizard from age on 2001-06-25 12:45 [#00010963] | |||||||||
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got up feeling quite shit....but feel much better now...honest! (:D) |
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hevquip from a foxes wooden leg on 2001-06-25 16:50 [#00010989] | |||||||||
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i think of time to be an amalgalm of the past and present, but not the future. the future has not happened, but currently the present is happening and past is taking place all at once, but we are not connected directly to the past, hence the reason for no time travel yet and probably because you cant go back to something that has already happened. |
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rob fragilenine : rf on 2001-06-26 02:26 [#00011025] | |||||||||
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don't worry, rob is here now, all previous posts can be erased... |
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afinelinger bro on 2001-06-26 02:27 [#00011026] | |||||||||
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hey rob |
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frail in gene bor on 2001-06-26 02:27 [#00011027] | |||||||||
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hey rob |
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genef rail I born on 2001-06-26 02:27 [#00011028] | |||||||||
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hey rob |
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Cow Paste Man from Fraggle Rock on 2001-06-26 09:20 [#00011051] | |||||||||
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Dum dee dum, I might as well keep talking to myself under different aliases, as I have been so far. Time is only energy. If you freeze the earth for example, removing all heat and all energy, time would appear to stop relative to the rest of the universe. When it was unfrozen again, time would continue once again, with the energy there once again which is required to make actions happen which creates the artificial concept of the fabric of "time". I wish I was a different animal. If I could pick one to NOT be out of the wide variety, it would be a human, what luck. |
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Joyeboy from California on 2001-06-28 00:28 [#00011129] | |||||||||
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Hmm, so that means since time is only energy "flowing", if you will, then it is impossible to travel back in time, eh? |
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bump |
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would it not be something like the planck length over the speed of light?.. i'm guessing.. my quantum physics isn't really up there if you know what i mean. |
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this guy has got a mind to kill for! rock over cow paste man :) |
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Read "A Brief History Of Time" from Mr. Hawking and you'll know... |
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the smallest unit of time i know of is a yoctosecond. |
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yep, but that is just a word. there may actually be a smallest time scale (no unit though) 'cause if you go to smaller and smaller time scales, particles moving free on a large scale go through intermediate states and don't move free at all. if one assumes that curvature of spacetime also has a particle representation it follows that for shorter and shorter intervals something like space-time foam may be observed. that'd be the planck scale, some 10^-40s, but it's highly speculative. I'm currently doing a small project on quantum gravity at uni where we scratch the surface of some of these problems. my actual contribution only i a technical one though. last time i talked about what i'm doing noone believed me :) |
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the smallest unit of time is the moment it takes to realize that none of us know what the *--* we're talking about |
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How can you speak of the smallest unit of time when we're living in a universe in which time is a continuous property, as opposed to a discrete one... |
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its a matter of measurability, isn't it? |
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so the smallest unit of time is really an asymptote then |
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i could not give a flying fuck. |
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birds at mating season could |
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Another old nonsense topic, but I'm in a salvaging kind of mood. On the topic of time- Are you: A- a person for which time flies... the days are too short, not long enough to do everything you want B- the days are long and you're often bored A for me... my God, I'm 20 going on 35. I don't have time to listen to all the music I want to. It fucking sucks. |
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it's just a scale beyond which it doesn't make sense to talk about time, just as you can't give the distance between europe and america in millimeters, though the breakdown is on a conceptional level, not a technical one |
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A definitly |
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B unfortunately |
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it all depends on your behavior tho |
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depends what im doing. do you get that thing where occasionally you look at a clock, and the hand or digits seem to freeze for like 1/4 a second before they move? thats cos we don't actually experience events conciously in the time frame they occur. there's a slight gap. its quite mental |
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You are damn smart for a nice little bunny ;-) |
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time virtually goes faster when you're doing an activity or task of some sort but when you're inactive, time seems to be one of the primary things on your mind |
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Can you imagine that certain animals, or alien races (or whatever) have twice the sampling frequency of human eyes/brains which makes all things twice as long for them as for humans... Or would they feel it to be equally long, but in some kind of higher resolution??? This is serious, although you might think i am nuts... |
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yeah its widely believed animals that are smaller experience reality a bit 'faster' than we do. ie it feels slower to the animal. hence flies' reflexes. any nerve transmission takes longer the further it has to go. |
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And because of this higher time-resolution they would react twice as fast as humans. They also would think humans are sloooow and therefore very vulnerable... |
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different species have different anatomies in their hearing, which contributes to different hearing ranges here's a of such |
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(scroll to the bottom) |
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This is so cool! I don't know, but i am thinking about this quite often... |
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i always thought cats were the most mental. such a wide range. i reckon our 44.1k/sec music sounds ridiculous to them.. |
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i heard that mammals have the same amount of 'heartbeats' in average, some go faster (the smaller ones) and therefore live shorter. considering the pulse frequency of my lill bunny when i feed him, i doubt he will make it very long |
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What a damn cool concept: Time is relative because it is subjectively determined by your brain's sampling frequency... |
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I think i'll buy a wheelchair and write a book about this ;-) |
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of course. everything is. |
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B. time is slow life is long, i wish forr death. |
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i'm an A kindof guy, sadly. wishing for B. then i could have all the time in the world. i don't wanna grow up & get old & die. that's gonna suck. |
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getting old does but death is rrelease. |
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