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Originally posted by Aggie Man
Is time REALLY a dimension? I mean, it's a man made concept. It has no beginning or end...I equate it to someone asking where the beginning and end of a circle is....there is none.
Originally posted by die_another_day
Time and space are inseparably related.
As space expands, time expands proportionally.
Originally posted by Aggie Man
Is time REALLY a dimension? I mean, it's a man made concept. It has no beginning or end...I equate it to someone asking where the beginning and end of a circle is....there is none.
Just my 2-cents
[edit on 7-10-2009 by Aggie Man]
Originally posted by SensiblePersonUK
Originally posted by Aggie Man
Is time REALLY a dimension? I mean, it's a man made concept. It has no beginning or end...I equate it to someone asking where the beginning and end of a circle is....there is none.
Just my 2-cents
[edit on 7-10-2009 by Aggie Man]
Time is a crap name for it. A better description is the 'Direction of Entropy' There is a beginning an end. It is not a theoretical man made thing. Its a consequence of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Time started when the net entropy of the Universe grew larger than 0, and time will stop when the net entropy of the universe maxes out.
[edit on 16-2-2010 by SensiblePersonUK]
Originally posted by FTL_Navigator
Hi Spy66,
The 4th dimension can't be time for a very specific reason, the 4th dimension is at right angles to the 3rd dimension;
If you can imagine a cube in 3d, this 3d object is a shadow of the 4th dimension
looking at the cube is an act of the 4th dimension,
Easily provable;
Dimension 1 is a point or singularity
Dimension 2 creates a shadow, or point
Dimension 3 creates a 2nd dimensional shadow on a 2 plane surface eg; you stand in the sun (you're the 3d object) and you gaze apon the ground, low and behold there is a 2d shadow on a flat surface.
However just to mix it up a bit, a cube really has 13 dimensions, 2 for each side (6x2) and the originating 1d point.
To see all 13 dimensions you have to imagine being inside the cube looking outwards whilst simulataneously being on the outside of the ube looking inwards
You have now become a 14th dimensional being.
Sorry for the headaches, but humans need to "think outside the box", pun intended.
HADES
Originally posted by spy66
Originally posted by SensiblePersonUK
Originally posted by Aggie Man
Is time REALLY a dimension? I mean, it's a man made concept. It has no beginning or end...I equate it to someone asking where the beginning and end of a circle is....there is none.
Just my 2-cents
[edit on 7-10-2009 by Aggie Man]
Time is a crap name for it. A better description is the 'Direction of Entropy' There is a beginning an end. It is not a theoretical man made thing. Its a consequence of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Time started when the net entropy of the Universe grew larger than 0, and time will stop when the net entropy of the universe maxes out, and the net energy denisity of the universe tends to 0.
[edit on 16-2-2010 by SensiblePersonUK]
I am not 100% sure about what you mean by grew larger then 0.
Did it grow larger by a compression or an expansion?
What do you mean by Zero? Is that a static state of energy where there is no changes taking place?
If so how did it grow? How would you explain the Thermodynamic Law from Zero state energy?
Originally posted by ReelView
Sorry, time does not exist in nature. Time is not the 4th dimension or any dimension. Time is an abstract concept used by the mind. It is not real. Something is this high, or that wide, or that long by conventions of what side each dimension represents for that object. Perhaps a singularity expanded into n dimensions.