Why can't the top and bottom of the wheel roll in the same direction simultaneously? — Cuthbert
Time has an odd geometry: it's linear & circular. If it's 5:00 PM today, it's again 5:00 PM (circular), but tomorrow (linear). Line + Circle = Sine wave (?) — Agent Smith
Time moves forward because our faces are not on the backs of our heads. — whollyrolling
What if our faces were on our back? — Hillary
But how then can particles move towards each other or repulse each other. If there is no time they can't move. — Hillary
Now you are postulating time for the movement, because you have read something on time, and imagining that it is flowing or moving forward. — Corvus
Doesn't time move forwards because it was set in motion forwards? Time could have run backwards. — Hillary
You seem to contradict yourself. Is time something that flows/moves or not? If it is, then it isn't what clocks measure since two clocks can measure different durations between the same two events.I dont think time is flowing. — Hillary
Different interpretations of time both define motion as change in location over time, so this doesn't really distinguish which interpretation you're suggesting, or whether 'time is real' or not. I forget which interpretation is associated with 'time is real' since it seems quite real either way despite being a very different thing.motion is time. — Hillary
You seem to contradict yourself — noAxioms
Why isn't it happening the other way round though? Why isn't all that happens running the other way round? Why isn't the universe collapsing, Sunlight moving towards the Sun, or the rain falling up? Why don't my thoughts run backwards, do I hear things after which sound leaves my ear? Why doesn't cause precede effect? Wouldn't it be easy for a god to precisely arrange for it? — EugeneW
So the answer for "why" things happen the way they do in nature...is ...because they do. — Nickolasgaspar
A better questions would be what makes processes unroll at a specific direction or stones fall downwards. — Nickolasgaspar
-good luck providing evidence for that assumptions.But the point is that all motion in the universe could be opposite to the motion we observe. — Hillary
-This is the quality of philosophy you have when you ignore the whole epistemic framework on why processes unroll at one direction....Particles will experience the same forces, the universe shrinks, and wavefunction collapses are reversed. — Hillary
-No it only opens question that have already poisoned the well with the fallacy of teleology..but I know logic and soundness is not part of your philosophy..... Saying that there is no place for questioning why this is the case closes the road to comprehension. — Hillary
good luck providing evidence for that assumptions. — Nickolasgaspar
Not all sentences with a "why" in from and a question-mark at the end qualify as serious questions. — Nickolasgaspar
Particles will experience the same forces, the universe shrinks, and wavefunction collapses are reversed.
— Hillary
-This is the quality of philosophy you have when you ignore the whole epistemic framework on why processes unroll at one direction.... — Nickolasgaspar
no because you are forgetting essential elements in those processes — Nickolasgaspar
Time has an odd geometry: it's linear & circular. If it's 5:00 PM today, it's again 5:00 PM (circular), but tomorrow (linear). Line + Circle = Sine wave (?) — Agent Smith
If Kronos moved forward, we would never ever see the future, ja? — Agent Smith
Scientific speculation, philosophical even, is always welcome. My own suspicion is that time moves obliquely according to a functional operator and we experience only a projection of it in our spacetime geometry. By generating a computer time-field it may be possible to break through.
Time dilation might be explained by a shift in the time-angle created by velocity. — jgill
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