Time

[dong20]

"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff."

You better duck, right now!!

 

[Mem]

it's 5:19 A.M. EST

 

[dong20]

it's 5:19 A.M. EST

Prove it.

 

[_avg_]

Does space exist? Time and space are inextricably tied.

"Time" is a word we use to say that "change happens." As such it is an emergent phenomenon, like "wetness" and "heat." And it is a one-way road: (thanks to heat-loss and entroy) even reversable processes cannot return the original state.

 

[earllogjam]

Time, time, time, see whats become of me
While I looked around
For my possibilities
I was so hard to please
But look around, leaves are brown
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter

Hear the salvation army band
Down by the riverside, its bound to be a better ride
Than what youve got planned
Carry your cup in your hand
And look around, leaves are brown now
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter

Hang on to your hopes, my friend
Thats an easy thing to say, but if your hopes should pass away
Simply pretend
That you can build them again
Look around, the grass is high
The fields are ripe, its the springtime of my life

Ahhh, seasons change with the scenery
Weaving time in a tapestry
Wont you stop and remember me
At any convenient time
Funny how my memory slips while looking over manuscripts
Of unpublished rhyme
Drinking my vodka and lime

But look around, leaves are brown now
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter

Look around, leaves are brown
Theres a patch of snow on the ground...

• Simon And Garfunkel lyrics

 

[dong20]

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept.
When as a youth I dreamed and talked, time walked.
When I became a full grown man, time ran.
and later, as I grew older, time flew.
soon I shall find while travelling on, time gone.

 

[the_reverend]

You better duck, right now!!

"The angels have the phonebox. I love that bit. I've got it on a t-shirt."

 

[earllogjam]

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept.
When as a youth I dreamed and talked, time walked.
When I became a full grown man, time ran.
and later, as I grew older, time flew.
soon I shall find while travelling on, time gone.

Nice Dong. Does time ever retreat?

 

[dong20]

Nice Dong. Does time ever retreat?

Not my work, I remember it from line two. As for your question; I don't know, but I'm willing to call it a draw.

 

[Jovial]

Of course (as I assume you mean) if we consider things another way, one could argue that time is no more than the sequence of events - in which case the changing state of the water (or the cycle of a waveform) could be considered independently of any 'flow' of time.

This probably doesn't matter to your post, dong20, but I wanted to make the point that a sequence of events may be in a different order for different observers. And neither observer is wrong about what they have observed. That is the theory of relativity which shows that time is intertwined with space. We can't separate the two.

I believe time exists even if man didn't exist.

 

[earllogjam]

This probably doesn't matter to your post, dong20, but I wanted to make the point that a sequence of events may be in a different order for different observers. And neither observer is wrong about what they have observed. That is the theory of relativity which shows that time is intertwined with space. We can't separate the two.

I believe time exists even if man didn't exist.

When you are dead, does it matter if time exists or not? Time only exists when you are alive, specifically now, the present. Time dies when you do.

 

[Jovial]

When you are dead, does it matter if time exists or not? Time only exists when you are alive, specifically now, the present. Time dies when you do.

Hey, how did you know I was God?

 

[earllogjam]

Hey, how did you know I was God?

Aren't we all?