Bekijk de Noorderlicht-aflevering 'Killing Time'

Bekijk de Noorderlicht-aflevering 'Killing Time' met Julian Barbour. Website: http://noorderlicht.vpro.nl/killing_time
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Science & Technology

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• VPRO
• Noorderlicht
• science
• wetenschap
• Killing
• Time
• Julian
• Barbour

[jamesedwardtheobald]

@JohnKarlson there are those that think that insight gleaned under the influence of that powerful substance is invalid. i disagree with them...

[jamesedwardtheobald]

@msives yes. i think that path is more elegant...

[jamesedwardtheobald]

@boeboedada22 I had a near-life experience recently... (that's a joke of mine, i have had a couple NDEs though. and without threat i have experienced various forms of temporality from time stopping to it reversing (obviously to my own perceptions due to having a lot of energy 'saved'...)

[frogface66]

Its interesting to think of time as a series of now's but if that is so why do they appear to be set in a linear fashion that makes sense to us and not just scattered? Why is it that a now from what i perceive as last year doesn't jump in to a now that will happen next in my series of now's?

[sumolinuxuser]

@Ewochable

The mike theory explains that string theory cannot exist unless i make up 26 dimensions of imaginary things. In other words, string theory uses imaginary things to explain things that string theory needs to explain but cannot without invoking the imagination...

[sumolinuxuser]

@gieterrr

Time is just what we measure it as: if you roll the ball, does time get invoked once it begins rolling, or at impact? According to you, it just exists: like the Aether of old. But if time exists always, can you not just eliminate it from the equation? When force is applied, you know the moment it happens and you can show through math what its existence will do to an object and 'how long' it will take for the force to be spent, but 'how long' is just mans measurement.

[gieterrr]

How can time be nonexistant? If I roll a ball in the direction of another ball, impact occurs. There is a direct reason for this to happen, namely the laws of nature. Everything is predictable because of these laws, I can't just suddenly teleport to Afghanistan without reason. Time plays an important role in all physical processes, and without it the universe would not even exist. I can understand the idea of infinite possibilities, but transfer between one 'now' and the other is never unlogical

[Fapsamup]

The man is actually a poet the way he looks at the universe with his pictures and the picture he took from all his pictures. It was an interesting metaphor. :-) He is a quantum poet.

[Confuzer]

Will we ever find the N in the function we live in? Will we find the smallest step and think, our science isn't good enough. Will we discover it all, and never know? And if the N is the now... what is it? Is it the ribosome walking the dna... is it the reality-creator walking a function until and infinite entropy? The only thing I still think is that there is no chance, I think everything is predictable, we just don't understand the quantum model yet. But when we do, I predict predictability.