Comments on: The Shortest Distance Between the Past and the Future is Now http://ymburgess.wordpress.com/2006/01/16/the-shortest-distance-between-the-past-and-the-future-is-now-how-to-make-a-point/ The shortest distance between the past and the future is now. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:48:01 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: jaycross http://ymburgess.wordpress.com/2006/01/16/the-shortest-distance-between-the-past-and-the-future-is-now-how-to-make-a-point/#comment-96 jaycross Sat, 04 Mar 2006 06:38:54 +0000 http://ymburgess.wordpress.com/2006/01/16/the-shortest-distance-between-the-past-and-the-future-is-now-how-to-make-a-point/#comment-96 Time is so fundamental to the way we've been programmed that it's near impossible to get your arms around. Julian Barbour and others suggest that we move from one slice of all-time to another; all slices exist in the eternal breadbox -- II don't buy it. Stephen Hawking and his theoretical physics pals speculate that time is reversible. Okay, but that's like Black Holes and quarks and other things that are totally outside my experience. Show me. But then I'm a guy who thinks String Theory is akin to reading tea leaves to see the future. http://abu9.blogspot.com/2004/11/string-theory.html Maybe time's a total illusion. We live in a town named for Bishop Berkeley who would have said that everything is an illusion: it's all whatever God was thinking, nothing more. William James did some of the initial research on this. I'll ping you if I can locate the reference. If you have time to burn (so to speak): http://abu9.blogspot.com/2004/11/time.html Time is so fundamental to the way we’ve been programmed that it’s near impossible to get your arms around. Julian Barbour and others suggest that we move from one slice of all-time to another; all slices exist in the eternal breadbox — II don’t buy it.

Stephen Hawking and his theoretical physics pals speculate that time is reversible. Okay, but that’s like Black Holes and quarks and other things that are totally outside my experience. Show me. But then I’m a guy who thinks String Theory is akin to reading tea leaves to see the future. http://abu9.blogspot.com/2004/11/string-theory.html

Maybe time’s a total illusion. We live in a town named for Bishop Berkeley who would have said that everything is an illusion: it’s all whatever God was thinking, nothing more.

William James did some of the initial research on this. I’ll ping you if I can locate the reference.

If you have time to burn (so to speak):
http://abu9.blogspot.com/2004/11/time.html

]]> By: Yvonne http://ymburgess.wordpress.com/2006/01/16/the-shortest-distance-between-the-past-and-the-future-is-now-how-to-make-a-point/#comment-93 Yvonne Fri, 03 Mar 2006 10:41:37 +0000 http://ymburgess.wordpress.com/2006/01/16/the-shortest-distance-between-the-past-and-the-future-is-now-how-to-make-a-point/#comment-93 Yes, I can see that. I had wondered now and then, how long was a moment, but never resolved it. Like how big is a point on a line ... So now then, when we say the moment, "the real now never stands still long enough" we're speaking as if it is moving. But is it? Is the "now" moving? What is that "now" that is moving and in which direction? Is it possible that the now, a particular configuration of stuff in relationship in space (and including points consciousness as some of the "stuffs") might not move at all? Perhaps it's (that is, all "nows") all "there" some theoretical locality of being, and only our awareness, as distinct from consciousness, moves. And this we call the arrow of time ...?? Yes, I can see that. I had wondered now and then, how long was a moment, but never resolved it. Like how big is a point on a line …

So now then, when we say the moment, “the real now never stands still long enough” we’re speaking as if it is moving. But is it? Is the “now” moving? What is that “now” that is moving and in which direction?

Is it possible that the now, a particular configuration of stuff in relationship in space (and including points consciousness as some of the “stuffs”) might not move at all? Perhaps it’s (that is, all “nows”) all “there” some theoretical locality of being, and only our awareness, as distinct from consciousness, moves. And this we call the arrow of time …??

]]> By: Jay Cross http://ymburgess.wordpress.com/2006/01/16/the-shortest-distance-between-the-past-and-the-future-is-now-how-to-make-a-point/#comment-87 Jay Cross Sun, 26 Feb 2006 06:54:15 +0000 http://ymburgess.wordpress.com/2006/01/16/the-shortest-distance-between-the-past-and-the-future-is-now-how-to-make-a-point/#comment-87 Yvonne, you're probably aware of this, but the "now" we experience is illusory. That now always comes after the fact. (We need a bit of processing to be aware of anything.) The real now, the stuff an atomic clock measures, never stands still long enough to be an instant, either. It's like Xeno's paradox: you always have further to go. Yvonne, you’re probably aware of this, but the “now” we experience is illusory. That now always comes after the fact. (We need a bit of processing to be aware of anything.) The real now, the stuff an atomic clock measures, never stands still long enough to be an instant, either. It’s like Xeno’s paradox: you always have further to go.

]]> By: Yvonne http://ymburgess.wordpress.com/2006/01/16/the-shortest-distance-between-the-past-and-the-future-is-now-how-to-make-a-point/#comment-15 Yvonne Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:51:12 +0000 http://ymburgess.wordpress.com/2006/01/16/the-shortest-distance-between-the-past-and-the-future-is-now-how-to-make-a-point/#comment-15 Glad you enjoyed. Took me awhile to get that one out. Sometimes I wonder if the brain dump is brilliant or merely entertaining - thanks for the encouragement. Y Glad you enjoyed. Took me awhile to get that one out.

Sometimes I wonder if the brain dump is brilliant or merely entertaining – thanks for the encouragement. Y

]]> By: billdaul http://ymburgess.wordpress.com/2006/01/16/the-shortest-distance-between-the-past-and-the-future-is-now-how-to-make-a-point/#comment-14 billdaul Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:41:22 +0000 http://ymburgess.wordpress.com/2006/01/16/the-shortest-distance-between-the-past-and-the-future-is-now-how-to-make-a-point/#comment-14 Yvonne, Brilliant observations/brain dumps...thank for the exposure into your mind. Also I love your quote, "The shortest distance between the past and the future is now.". --b Yvonne,

Brilliant observations/brain dumps…thank for the exposure into your mind. Also I love your quote, “The shortest distance between the past and the future is now.”.

–b

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