Recent content by sahmgeek

Marcus, I was going to ask, but found my answer here. Thanks to your past self! https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=483523&highlight=Anaximander+His+Legacy

Again, thanks for an interesting link. I don't have time now to read all the comments, but Bravo Lee Smolin!

Thanks Chalnoth. I really enjoyed reading that as well. Just read the Atlantic and Scientific American pieces on Friday. Carroll provides a nice summary and, of course, I very much appreciate his handling of the goals of the philosophy of science at the end.

I often prefer to ask, "what change is it?"

think about when you're watching a movie and they "stop time". what happens? all of the movement and change stops. almost as if they are one and the same. i certainly don't know if they are, but gosh...

What would that be like, to experience everything all at once? Wouldn't you experience something static? Would you actually experience anything at all? It's interesting to think about. It seems to me that time is very deeply embedded in the experience of changes through space, from micro to...

yes, exactly. thank you. I was somehow imagining a 360 degree expansion from a central point (us) and drawing strange conclusions.

I'm on Ned Wright's balloon analogy page. I don't think my brain is working properly :). thanks!

right, I got that. so, have we measured that expansion is occurring at the same rate in all directions? does that imply that we are stationary and everything is expanding around us? I may be very confused right now :confused:

Well, that's like a punch in the gut. I guess I've heard this tossed around before but the implications are just sinking in.

Really? I can't think of anything more worthy of obsession. It sounds absolutely lovely. Hmm, category theory...:smile:

Quinzio - cosmology is very hard to make sense out of conceptually. That's why scientists use math. Ordinary language doesn't do it justice. The term "Expanding universe" does in fact imply to the layperson that the "universe", in it's entirety (whatever that is), is expanding. If it is the case...

true. maybe i should have said: time = a measurement of different locations in quantized space, where the 2nd law of thermodynamics is fundamental, as experienced by a single observer.

Actually, Zeno's flying arrow paradox makes perfect sense IF time and space are one and the same (i.e. if the true nature of time is another way of measuring things in space). I personally think this is a great candidate for the essence of "time".

Can you flesh that out a little more?