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originally posted by: Korg Trinity
originally posted by: ISawItFirst
originally posted by: Korg Trinity
originally posted by: ISawItFirst
originally posted by: Korg Trinity
originally posted by: ISawItFirst
a reply to: Korg Trinity
Way to dodge the question. Although I agree, there is no such place as a place with no place. Also there is no time as a time with no time. Interchange as you wish.
The question is layman Physics...
So which girls 30 years is the one that is absolute. I don't know why you think this refutes anything I said.
You know that theory was published by Einstien, right? The same guy who said time is an illusion. Same thing I'm saying.
It appears there is no getting through to you is there??
Both Girls times were absolute within their frame of reference....
If you want to deny the existence of something so fundamental to reality that it is experienced by everyone and effects everything from the measurement of the positioning of the starts to the cascade of atoms in a nuclear reaction to the calculations required to understand super symmetry and quantum gravity.... Everything.....that is of course your prerogative...
Korg.
The point is time is relative. It is dependent on the frame of reference. Therefore, not absolute.
Absolute means the same for all references.
What is so hard about this.
You are not understanding this are you...
Time runs the same for you where ever you are and however fast you are traveling... only when you measure more than one frame of reference is there any discrepancy.
Do you see?
originally posted by: zatara
a reply to: dreamfox1
Because I accepted a job in an other town I had to move house. Not very long after moving in I experianced something weird. It was about 11:00 PM and about to take off to deamland when I happened to see an old man with his dog in my bedroom. Both were transperant and the dog was very excited. The dog was running circles around the man and at a certain moment also around my bed...(my bed was placed in the corner of the room!!) The man was just standin there and I think he was also the owner of the dog. When I realised what I was witnessing the whole display went away.
A few years later my cat died in that same house... In that same bedroom I did see,, no, I first heared this familiar miauw of my cat and when I looked into the room I did see my (again transperant) dead cat walking into my bedroom.
Very weird experances altogether... I think that at this spot in my bedroom some kind of earth magnetic anomaly is present..
If Time was a human construct then what happened before humans? Was there no time? And if so how could the universe move forward to a point by which humans could evolve??
This one is. In other words, it feels as though time flows, in the sense that the present is constantly updating itself. We have a deep intuition that the future is open until it becomes present and that the past is fixed. As time flows, this structure of fixed past, immediate present and open future gets carried forward in time. This structure is built into our language, thought and behavior
Albert Einstein’s theories of relativity suggest not only that there is no single special present but also that all moments are equally real
Plot overview[edit]
The city of Bellona is severely damaged; radio, television, and telephones do not reach it. People enter and leave by crossing a bridge on foot.
Inexplicable events punctuate the novel: One night the perpetual cloud cover parts to reveal two moons in the sky. One day a red sun swollen to hundreds of times its normal size rises to terrify the populace, then retreats across the sky to set on the same horizon. Street signs and landmarks shift constantly, while time appears to contract and dilate. Buildings burn for days, but are never consumed, while others burn and later show no signs of damage. Gangs roam the nighttime streets, their members hidden within holographic projections of gigantic insects or mythological creatures. The few people left in Bellona struggle with survival, boredom, and each other.
Dhalgren and Delany's personal experience of reality[edit]
Samuel R. Delany is profoundly dyslexic and dysmetric. He once spent time in the mental health ward of a hospital. And he has repeatedly spoken and written of seeing burned-out sections of great American cities that most people didn't see, or even know exist. Dhalgren is a literary exposition of all these experiences for the "normal" reader.[
originally posted by: TheConstruKctionofLight
One of the best and weirdest Sci Fi books I read was Dhalgren by Samuel Delany
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Scorpions, cities laid to waste
Plot overview[edit]
The city of Bellona is severely damaged; radio, television, and telephones do not reach it. People enter and leave by crossing a bridge on foot.
Inexplicable events punctuate the novel: One night the perpetual cloud cover parts to reveal two moons in the sky. One day a red sun swollen to hundreds of times its normal size rises to terrify the populace, then retreats across the sky to set on the same horizon. Street signs and landmarks shift constantly, while time appears to contract and dilate. Buildings burn for days, but are never consumed, while others burn and later show no signs of damage. Gangs roam the nighttime streets, their members hidden within holographic projections of gigantic insects or mythological creatures. The few people left in Bellona struggle with survival, boredom, and each other.
Dhalgren and Delany's personal experience of reality[edit]
Samuel R. Delany is profoundly dyslexic and dysmetric. He once spent time in the mental health ward of a hospital. And he has repeatedly spoken and written of seeing burned-out sections of great American cities that most people didn't see, or even know exist. Dhalgren is a literary exposition of all these experiences for the "normal" reader.[
originally posted by: ISawItFirst
a reply to: Korg Trinity
Amazing a proclaimed mathematician has no idea what the word absolute means.
originally posted by: ISawItFirst
a reply to: Korg Trinity
Just read your groundbreaking unified field theory on zero. I don't think it is us who need basic physics lessons.
originally posted by: TheLaughingGod
a reply to: Korg Trinity
To me they both have merit, but I only find one of them narrow-minded. We don't need to learn basic physics, we've got better tools. Any real adept would laugh at your pretensions of having some kind of monopoly on understanding the reality of these particular subjects when in reality you're the one that's living in flatland.