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But what about the future ?
Hey now ! You're starting to yell at me and that could hurt my feeling.
I didn't think there was a problem. Just a minor disagreement that didn't amount to a pimple on a nats ass really.
But if you're gonna start cap'n on me, nevermind.
“Wheeler said he was sure the universe was filled with "huge clouds of uncertainty" that haven't yet interacted either with a conscious observer or even with some lump of inanimate matter. In all these places, he said, the cosmos is "a vast arena containing realms where the past is not yet the past."
“Researchers are on the verge of experiments that will finally hold retrocausality's feet to the fire by attempting to send a signal to the past. What's more, they need not invoke black holes, wormholes, extra dimensions or other exotic implements of time travel. It should all be doable with the help of a state-of-the-art optics workbench and the bizarre yet familiar tricks of quantum particles. If retrocausality is confirmed -- and that is a huge if -- it would overturn our most cherished notions about the nature of cause and effect and how the universe works.”
Originally posted by randyvs
reply to post by IAMIAM
That was very pretty IAM. That just made this whole thread worth it.
Thank you.edit on 21-12-2011 by randyvs because: (no reason given)
There is only now... that is all that has ever been
I find this view to be the least detrimental to ones sanity, with the least amount of distortion to reality
I was actually gonna reply in the exact same way. Guess I don't have to anymore.
Originally posted by Akragon
reply to post by randyvs
But what about the future ?
The future doesn't exist... Nor does the past...
The future is mearly hopes and dreams... and the past is only memories...
There is only now... that is all that has ever been
Originally posted by flexy123
You can not be more off with your statement that the past is "set in stone" - because the past and how we experience "the past" and our whole history is EXTREMELY SUBJECTIVE.
Not only is the past extremely subjective in how we experience it "as happened"..it can (and also does!) getting rewritten and re-interpreted.
Let's take a HYPOTHETICAL EXAMPLE:
Let's assume that Germany won the war and now big parts of Europe would be under some kind of Nazi regime. They would probably look back in the past and celebrate Hitler, the Holocaust, WWII as great events. We would probably celebrate Hitler's birthday every year with parties and getting off from work.
The resistance and people who wanted to kill Hitler, unlike today, they would NOT be remembered as heroes and martyrs...but likely we would remember them as murderers and evil people.
YOU REALIZE that the events are 100% and totally the same - it's the interpretation of the events which make us see and experience our past!
We (humans) are SUBJECTIVE beings driven by emotions...rarely is ANYTHING absolute..this applies to the past and of course to the future!
Originally posted by BruceEFury
The future can not be changed because it has simply not happened yet,
this is one of those thoughts that hurt to think about, but we already know
that the universe doesn't branch off onto different path's (as far as we know).
The past and present is what shapes the outcome of our future,
but at the end of time we can conclude that Path A happened
so therefore Path A can not be changed. If you catch my drift.
Thank you for my afternoon brain strain
Originally posted by IAMIAM
reply to post by spy66
As far as changing the future is concerned...
It is just a choice of what you want your now to be.
And making it so...
With Love,
Your Brother