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EVEN THE LIGHT IS ROUND.
Opinion verses THE LIGHT?
quote: Originally posted by GreatTech
Rarely does a human have the answer before the question.
Originally posted by Rotator
Round and round and round we go.
Where we stop, Tor may know.
Originally posted by whatukno
I thought that you talked about this already? Is there something that you left out?
Originally posted by whatukno
Ok time is just that something that humans made up.
"The value of this research lies in understanding how the brain works," said Dean Buonomano, associate professor of neurobiology and psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a member of the university's Brain Research Institute. "Many complex human behaviors -- from understanding speech to playing catch to performing music -- rely on the brain's ability to accurately tell time. Yet no one knows how the brain does it."
The most popular theory assumes that a clock-like mechanism -- which generates and counts regular fixed movements -- underlies timing in the brain. In contrast, Buonomano suggests a physical model that operates without using a clock. He offers an analogy to explain how it works.
"If you toss a pebble into a lake," he explained, "the ripples of water produced by the pebble's impact act like a signature of the pebble's entry time. The farther the ripples travel the more time has passed.
"We propose that a similar process takes place in the brain that allows it to track time," he added. "Every time the brain processes a sensory event, such as a sound or flash of light, it triggers a cascade of reactions between brain cells and their connections. Each reaction leaves a signature that enables the brain-cell network to encode time."
The UCLA team used a computer model to test this theory. By simulating a network of interconnected brain cells in which each connection changed over time in response to stimuli, they were able to show that the network could tell time.
Their simulations indicated that a specific event is encoded within the context of events that precede it. In other words, if one could measure the response of many neurons in the brain to a tone or a flash of light, the response would not only reveal the nature of the event, but the other events that preceded it and when they occurred.
The UCLA team tested the model by asking research volunteers in the study to judge the interval between two auditory tones under a variety of different conditions. The researchers found that volunteers' sense of timing was impaired when the interval was randomly preceded by a "distracter" tone.
"Our results suggest that the timing mechanisms that underlie our ability to recognize speech and enjoy music are distributed throughout the brain, and do not resemble the conventional clocks we wear on our wrists," said Buonomano.
Because time-related information is critical to understanding speech, determining how the brain tells time represents an important step toward understanding the causes of diseases, such as dyslexia, that result in impaired linguistic abilities, he noted.
The next step for the research will be recording the response from a large number of brain cells to determine whether they encode information about the timing of stimuli.
Buonomano collaborated with Uma Karmarkar, now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. The National Institute of Mental Health funded the study.
Originally posted by whatukno
ok as far as time travel goes heres my theory...
Originally posted by whatukno
ok as far as time travel goes heres my theory...
if you were to start in a point on the earth and wish to move backwards through time to a different point in time you would need to know where the earth was reletive to the point in time you wanted to be at.
In my theory you would have to calculate the position of the earth moon in relation to the sun, the suns relation to the center of the galaxy, the galaxys relitive position to the center of the universe, to nearly have an accurate JUMP in time.
otherwise a couple of things might happen.
1. you would end up well away from the earth which could be fine if you were in a ship that could reach earth again.
2. you could end up imbeded inside the earth which would be bad for obvious reasons.
Course you would also have to transmutate your form to that of energy in order to make the preceived jump throuh time keep a cohesive singnal and be able to reassemble the particles back into their orriginal position all within the span of an instant as to not let a single atom decay on you.
Originally posted by Esoteric Teacher
Originally posted by whatukno
ok as far as time travel goes heres my theory...
As far as time is concerned, here is my best theory:
There is no measurable degree of seperation whatsoever between any points in time.
Time is a funny "dimension". In a given frame the entire universe, every piece of it, exists simultaneously at one single "time point." In other words, at any time point, every spatial point in the entire universe is "connected". One of the things most likely being worked on (not evident in weapons yet, thank God!) is the ability to rotate a 3-space entity into a single time point, then rotate back out to any other desired 3-space location in the universe. In other words, the old "warp-jump" idea. If it could ever be developed, of course, that would really be the way to travel.
Time can also be modeled as 3-space EM wave energy (common old transverse EM wave energy) compressed by the factor c2, where c is the speed of light. So it's REALLY a "stiff spring energy", when compared to normal EM energy in 3-space. Time has the same energy density as mass, for example.
First, observe physical phenomena occurring. When we observe with our mass-system (body senses), we apply a d/dt operator to spacetime LLLT (three linear dimensions and time), thereby stripping off the T and leaving LLL. That is why all observation is 3-spatial, as is well-known in physics. This observation process is continual and rather massive, so we have a continual stream of observations LLL interspersed with LLLT while the next observation is in process (very fast, but not totally instantaneous). In short, our senses (observation systems) are cutting into spacetime and back out with a frozen 3-space slice, at an incredible rate. That's what observation is, which most scientists studying mind have confused with mind!
Originally posted by Esoteric Teacher
Originally posted by whatukno
ok as far as time travel goes heres my theory...
As far as time is concerned, here is my best theory:
There is no measurable degree of seperation whatsoever between any points in time.