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I take umbrage with this part: "A past that can be revisited has not really passed. So, Gödel concluded, time does not exist." This is a very silly conclusion.
by wuliwong 12y ago
I take umbrage with this part: "A past that can be revisited has not really passed. So, Gödel concluded, time does not exist." This is a very silly conclusion. My assumption is that the silliness is attributed more to the author of this article than to Gödel himself.
Our intuitive concept of time from our existence at speeds very slow compared with the speed of light and at masses which are very small when compared to those necessary to bend space-time is not necessarily applicable to time in all regions of this speed-mass phase space. Particularly the regions where the speed is close to the speed of light and the mass is very large. There's just no logical path from the initial observation to the conclusion that time doesn't exist.
- scobar 12y agoI admit I'm well below the mental capacity to confidently state something as bold as "time does not exist", but I'd like to offer my thoughts. When thinking about Schrödinger's cat, [1] I imagined that the cat remained dead (and in every other possible state) even after the observer had confirmed the cat was alive. Every unobserved state did not collapse, but became inaccessible by means currently understood. Those states could still be observed by the same or another observer from a different perspective (i.e. revisiting the event). We just have to figure out how. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrödinger's_cat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrödinger's_cat
- Ono-Sendai 12y agoI think the idea of time that does not exist, is one that is like a river, that has flowed past and can never be revisited.