I agree with you, ff, 42! That's the only answear, isn't it?

sorry it took so long to respond........

Yes its true that since we percieve time as linear it most likely IS linear.......

what I was kinda talking about is that if reality is on a path whether set in stone or determined by us, are there alternate paths and do they exist simultaneous with the path we percieve? sideways time.

The way I see reality its shaped like two cones pointing at each other, the place they touch is the present, as in it is sharply in focus from our perception, the past and the present get less and less in focus the farther away from the present it gets, memories grow dim, predictions get less likely. For example I can remember exactly what happened when I began typing this but I can't remember what song was on the radio when I woke up this morning......but I do remember there was a song, the past getting less in focus. Also I can predict that in the future I will click the button that says reply to topic, and I can also predict that someone else will type something in response to this, however I can't predict exactly what they will type, the future getting less in focus.

Generally I would also say that the angle of the cone in either direction would change due to all types of input and knowledge and what not. More than likely the cone of the past would be narrower than the cone of the future because it doesn't change very often.



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thats quantum mechanics now thats a different matter altogether very deep waters

Got your SCUBA gear? Or are we letting this one go........

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i don't understand anything about alternate realities and neither do i care if a mirror version of myself exists in another alternate timeline, to me there is only one reality and THIS is it

paul.......I don't understand why you would post something like that......this wasn't really a who-cares-about-alternate-realities thread, so why would you make it known? why even post anything? I know it's a free country and you can post wherever you want, but theres no reason to clue the rest of us in to what you DON'T know about, is there?

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it's a confusing concept to me but at the same time it's quite scary if you think about that an alternate version of you could exist

oh its another paradox, i told you the universe was full of them. every action or event has a limitless number of possible outcomes so in theory there could be infinites you's making infinite choices, but of course you only experience one. that's what Sliders cr*ply was all about. on the flip=side of the same argument there could possibly be only one particle in the entire univers but it moves about so incredibly quickly that it gives the appearance of being everywhere but we experiece it as the countless particles that we take the universe and us to be made from. Don't hold with it myself.

That sure would get around Zeno's paradox........but I'm with you no dice on the single omnipresent particle.....

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ff - Kind of. As I understand it, white holes are hypothesised to exist opposite black holes. That is to say that anything that is compressed to infinite smallness by a sigularity comes out the other side in another dimension/reality/whatever and is restored to its original form; thus it expels matter while a black hole consumes it.

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the point being, hypothesised.

To the best of my knowledge blackholes being portals to anywhere has been largely disproven. However as has been discussed in another thread a blackhole of great enough gravity theoretically creates a wormhole in close proximity to itself which is more of a point in space/time being yanked accross the universe to exist simultaneous with another point in space/time, and as I pointed out in that thread, the wormhole would be shaped like a cone that tapers off into the smallest point.....therefore useing them as portals to anywhere would be impossible. I've never heard of white holes except on the Disney movie called blackhole, that seemed to suggest that if you crank the accelerator while travelling towards a black hole that you would pop straight through it into a white hole exit.....absurd in my opinion........that would be like trying to thread a needle with watermelon.

anyone else know about zeno's paradox? I'll just go ahead and bring it to light anyway......it's the half distance paradox, you can divide a distance infinite times so you have infinite half distances to move through before you can reach the end , since we cannot complete infinite tasks in a finite amount of time how can we move at all? of course the easy answer is that reality is digital, as in it has a smallest part , an unhalvable distance. I think this would support the wormhole theory and blackholes and all of it. As in the vast amounts of gravity that compacts a blackhole would have to have a stopping point......a minimum size perhaps.......also it would seem more likely for a wormhole to taper to a specific point in space/time, that is if it tapered to an infinitely small point then it would also be infinitely long, which it obviously couldn't be.

Zeno's Paradox is a flawed argument anyway.

I agree, it is flawed. but I think it raises a good point, about how little we really understand about the universe......really has very little bearing on the original topic though

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