The illusion of time : past, present and future all exist together
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Please don't be misled by some comments below. This video does not say we can see future. It says Einstein's mathematical theory -which we later tested by clock experiment- also tells us that future and past always exist like the present! However, this does not necessitate pre-destination. "Now" is not deterministic as we know from Quantum Mechanics, so neither future nor past! Click https://youtu.be/CBrsWPCp_rs?t=199 to understand Quantum Mechanics. Check this video on how accurate atomic clocks can be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFyAQkIOkio This video is from the documentary "The Fabric of The Cosmos - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/fabric-of-cosmos.html " for nonprofit educational purposes. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A lot of people seem to have trouble understanding why illusion of time (illusion that past is gone, now exists, future has yet to come) does not necessitate predestination. I decided to add a comment from my exchange with axypolyas. ----------------------------- +axypolyas Not sure why you are bothered by all these; perhaps it is because of your choices in life. Let me tell you something which will bother you more. You might know already, however, anyone who is reading this exchange will highly likely not. The "scientific" description of you, me and everything is "energy". We don't know what energy is. We can quantify it, however, in essence what is it? we have no idea. And energy takes different forms, like elementary particles, which in turn become atoms, molecules and part of the end result is "us". We know energy is governed by laws and constants which naturally takes us to the inevitable conclusion: we are governed by those constants and laws. Before discovery of quantum physics, this would mean we are completely deterministic objects. Quantum physics showed us that we are not 100% deterministic. We are limited by laws but still we are unpredictable (we can calculate probabilities of what we might do next, but we don't know what we will do next until we do it). What do all these mean for us? Who are we? or what are we? Why do atoms and molecules pile up and "make" us? to live longer? All the atoms in our bodies are almost 15 billions of years old. What we call life is just another state in which they continue existing; nothing more; nothing special about it. How can we make sense of all these? Can we make sense of all these? If we are only, and only, condensed energy, there is no such a thing as making sense of things. There is only energy going through one state to another state "mindlessly". Pretty scary and dark explanation of our existence, is the pure scientific one. Science is only a tool; only a methodology we use to "make sense" of the universe. It does not tell us why things are the way they are. It tells us how we can construct theories and how we can use methods to test them, so that, we can do all these in an objective way. Science is an extremely limited way of looking into existence. Are my feelings objective? No. Are they scientific? No. Or, should I greet my neighbour every morning? Should I have an extra spoon of ice cream today? Or why do we do science? Do we have to do science? Say for our survival? Our survival has no meaning given particles making up our physical bodies existed for billions of years and they will continue to exist, perhaps longer. I will jump to my personal understanding, rather than "destroying ourselves" using science. To me, existence of The Creator makes more sense than anything else, including my own existence. The Creator, who logically must (and interestingly described as such in Islam which I have chosen as a path to follow) be All-Knowing, All-Powerful, capable of creating a free agent (my soul for example) with life, creating a universe in which those free agents can grow up, examine, study, learn, make sense of it... freely... is the only logical answer I can think of. We don't see the Creator, or souls, or anything which would "force" us to believe and accept. Creator made us free and as part of making that choice freely, we will always be bothered by our existence, but we will never find an answer. That will remain as a matter of choice and it has always been like that. "The knowledge of truth as such is wonderful, but it is so little capable of acting as a guide that it cannot prove even the justification and the value of the aspiration toward that very knowledge of truth. Here we face, therefore, the limits of the purely rational conception of our existence." -- Albert Einstein
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yeah, exactly. what I have been saying. everything that ever will be is in one moment. God, through it's unwavering patience and love is allowing for our souls to travel through the fourth dimension to experience pain and tribulation because only through pain and tribulation can one know, understand and overcome hate and love. Not for our family and those that we come to love in life easily, but the true test is to love those that hate us or would cause us harm. That is the true test. That is what the "Passion of the Christ" is really trying to teach us. How easy it is to love the hand that feeds you, is in need or makes your existence easier. It is loving those that make out lives harder or miserable that will give us the gift of transcendence.
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So that means Time travelling is possible?
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So everything is happening together and is just experienced separately
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the idea that my past is still out there somewhere is quite comforting to me. I don't know why though
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So this is why it seemed like it took planet Namek several 26 minute episodes to blow up when Frezia said it will only take 5 minutes.
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To travel in time is to travel in space
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our whole life is just a second for some one
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this would explain the law of attraction
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Big bang evolution propaganda garbage is all this is
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sure,still,time exists,cause...hehehe...we wouldn't know, ...when to eat, sleep,go anywhere,.........................so, it is Both...........so............... TIME=EMIT: Ti means You ............. YouMe ..............hehehe
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Did you know experiencing time alone is not the key to a happy life. Experiencing time with friends and family. Going through their experience is the key to a happy life
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i dont get it
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Consider this.
Here and now, you are alive. At some point in the future, you are not alive. Now if I ask, "What changed?" You might say that you were alive and now you are not alive.
Well, you'd be wrong. Nothing changed... except for "your" experience. Because while you are still alive in that infinitesimal yet eternal moment in time which your life inhabits.. your experience has shifted to something beyond the body, perhaps an endless void.
But why?... why is there a linear conscious experience when it is not truly a linear system? My guess: consciousness is just watching this life unfold, simply observing it, like a movie. "You" have no control, none at all, because you are really just consciousness, and all consciousness does is... be conscious. -
so every time i ride my bike i time travel?
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now this is bullshit enough internet for today
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What we know today, will be wrong tomorrow!
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We know nothing at all....
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That angle shit is absolute bullcrap. Where are your sources and citations? Scientific validation? Oh, don't have any? Get the fuck off the stage and go play with some crayons.
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So what your saying is that your fate is predetermined? Is this proof?
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