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Post by DRSB » Sat Dec 15, 2018 11:04 am

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Time is an illusion anyway, ask the physics!
That's not what physics say. You're confusing them with psychics.
In theoretical physics, the problem of time is a conceptual conflict between general relativity and quantum mechanics in that quantum mechanics regards the flow of time as universal and absolute, whereas general relativity regards the flow of time as malleable and relative.[1] This problem raises the question of what time really is in a physical sense and whether it is truly a real, distinct phenomenon. It also involves the related question of why time seems to flow in a single direction, despite the fact that no known physical laws seem to require a single direction.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_time
We cannot even conceptualize it without using space as a metaphor.

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Post by Hermit » Sat Dec 15, 2018 11:45 am

DRSB wrote:
Sat Dec 15, 2018 11:04 am
Hermit wrote:
Sat Dec 15, 2018 10:33 am
DRSB wrote:
Sat Dec 15, 2018 10:27 am
Time is an illusion anyway, ask the physics!
That's not what physics say. You're confusing them with psychics.
In theoretical physics, the problem of time is a conceptual conflict between general relativity and quantum mechanics in that quantum mechanics regards the flow of time as universal and absolute, whereas general relativity regards the flow of time as malleable and relative.[1] This problem raises the question of what time really is in a physical sense and whether it is truly a real, distinct phenomenon. It also involves the related question of why time seems to flow in a single direction, despite the fact that no known physical laws seem to require a single direction.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_time
We cannot even conceptualize it without using space as a metaphor.
So physics doesn't relegate time to a state of mere illusion. It re-conceptualises it.
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Post by DRSB » Sat Dec 15, 2018 12:27 pm

Conceptualizing and reconceptualizing something we cannot really conceive of except in terms of space. We are measuring it but what are we really measuring?!

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Post by Rum » Sat Dec 15, 2018 2:33 pm

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Conceptualizing and reconceptualizing something we cannot really conceive of except in terms of space. We are measuring it but what are we really measuring?!
It seems what we experience as humans is entropy - one result of a previous condition, the excercise of energy leading to the next. That seems to be ‘time’ for us. Whether it has some intrinsic property other than that which we cannot experience seems to be an open question.

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Post by DRSB » Sat Dec 15, 2018 2:47 pm

While looking to connect quantum field theory with statistical mechanics, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking introduced a concept he called imaginary time. Although rather difficult to visualize, imaginary time is not imaginary in the sense of being unreal or made-up. Rather, it bears a similar relationship to normal physical time as the imaginary number scale does to the real numbers in the complex plane, and can perhaps best be portrayed as an axis running perpendicular to that of regular time. It provides a way of looking at the time dimension as if it were a dimension of space, so that it is possible to move forwards and backwards along it, just as one can move right and left or up and down in space.
http://www.exactlywhatistime.com/physic ... ntum-time/

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Post by Hermit » Sun Dec 16, 2018 1:06 am

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Conceptualizing and reconceptualizing something we cannot really conceive of except in terms of space. We are measuring it but what are we really measuring?!
You are likely too organised and disciplined to miss an appointment, but if you ever turn up for one at 09:00 on a Thursday that was scheduled for 09:00 on a Wednesday I'd love to be a fly on the wall to witness the reaction if you explain your error to the interviewer by pointing out that "Time is an illusion anyway, ask the physics!" :hehe:
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Post by DRSB » Sun Dec 16, 2018 6:45 am

Hermit wrote:
Sun Dec 16, 2018 1:06 am
DRSB wrote:
Sat Dec 15, 2018 12:27 pm
Conceptualizing and reconceptualizing something we cannot really conceive of except in terms of space. We are measuring it but what are we really measuring?!
You are likely too organised and disciplined to miss an appointment, but if you ever turn up for one at 09:00 on a Thursday that was scheduled for 09:00 on a Wednesday I'd love to be a fly on the wall to witness the reaction if you explain your error to the interviewer by pointing out that "Time is an illusion anyway, ask the physics!" :hehe:
Or when I charge an hourly fee and the person tells me "But time is just an illusion"! :thinks:

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Post by DRSB » Sun Dec 16, 2018 6:46 am

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My Russian is a bit rusty.
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Post by DRSB » Thu Dec 20, 2018 2:25 pm

Is this not a bastard?
Germany's Der Spiegel says star reporter Claas Relotius wrote fake stories 'on a grand scale'

Der Spiegel said Claas Relotius, one of its top journalists, had fabricated parts of more than a dozen stories.
Hong Kong (CNN Business)A top European news magazine has fired one of its star journalists after discovering that he had fabricated facts and sources in more than a dozen articles over a seven-year period.

"Claas Relotius, a reporter and editor, falsified his articles on a grand scale and even invented characters, deceiving both readers and his colleagues," Germany's Der Spiegel said in an article published online Wednesday.
The startling revelation is a heavy blow to Der Spiegel, a 71-year-old publication that's renowned for its quality journalism and read by hundreds of thousands of people in print and by millions online.
"I'm so angry, horrified, shocked, stunned," the magazine's deputy foreign editor Mathieu von Rohr tweeted. "Claas Relotius faked, he cheated all of us."
After a colleague working with Relotius on a story in the United States flagged suspicions about his reporting, Der Spiegel says it carried out an internal investigation. Relotius confessed last week that he invented entire passages for that article, and also falsified information in other stories, according to the magazine.
Relotius, who resigned Monday at the magazine's request, said he was sick and needed help, a Der Spiegel spokesman told CNN.
This is what Spiegel explains: http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellscha ... 44579.html

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Post by Sean Hayden » Thu Dec 20, 2018 4:29 pm

Indeed, what a bastard.

It must be so easy though. I bet it happens all the time elsewhere.

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