Humankind, especially in the West, has long lived under the spell and curse of time, expressing it in art and philosophy as a brooding over Time’s passage. But what if, somehow, we could circumvent its hitherto unchanging pace?…
—Looking to build a time machine but nervous about the classic grandfather paradox, aka the Marty McFly conundrum, aka the idea that you might unwittingly do something that causes you to never exist in the first place? An MIT professor and a few of his quantum quoting buddies have published a theory that allows for time travel while circumventing the grandfather paradox. All you need is a quantum teleportation device and a precise understanding of the idea of postselection–Flux Capacitor optional.—click image for source…
Humans are the only living species that appear to be troubled by Time, and from that concern comes much of our finest art, a great deal of religion, and almost all science. For it was the temporal regularity of nature- the rising of sun and stars, the slower rhythm of the seasons- that led to the concept of universal order and in turn to astronomy, the first of all sciences.
Of course, outside of science, Time has been basic to all religions with creation at the beginning of Time and an end days of Time with the end of the universe as we know it. Within these bounds, there is even a deeper knowledge of Time, an “essence” of Time that is immeasurable phenomena in which science prove inapt at calculating. that is, measurement of Time, is not really telling us directly about the movement we are measuring, but more about the tools of measurement and, importantly, our own relationship to them as something akin to Marshall McLuhan’s medium is the message analogy. Instead, we have quantified something without grasping the object measured as a distinct entity in itself. We can measure how things behave within Time but Time itself, essential time remains the parameter, the boundary in which events occur. To turn the issue on its head, space and matter are dependent on the existence of time and not the converse which is usually accepted as canonical. Events presume an existence of Time as a continuum as in the creation of the world which means from nothing to something implies the existence of Time, hence creation presumes Time.
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Religions such as Hinduism, have looked back through enormous vistas of Time and forward to even greater ones. It was with some reluctance that Western astronomers realized that the East was right to some extent, contributing to our understanding of the nature of Time itself. It is only in the last fifty odd years, since balance wheels and pendulums started oscillating to realize that Time is neither absolute nor inexorable, and that the tyranny of the clock may not last forever. Human experience tells us that Time may appear to rush or to linger, each second slowly following the next, depending on our moods and how we interact with the suffering human condition. Scientific views are beginning to reveal the same possibility that Time may be relative and malleable and non-linear.
—Ali Razeghi, a Tehran scientist has registered “The Aryayek Time Traveling Machine” with the state-run Centre for Strategic Inventions.
The device can predict the future in a print out after taking readings from the touch of a user, he told the Fars state newsagency.
Razaeghi, 27, said the device worked by a set of complex algorithims to “predict five to eight years of the future life of any individual, with 98 percent accuracy”.
As the managing director of Iran’s Centre for Strategic Inventions, Razeghi is a serial inventor with 179 other inventions listed under his own name. “I have been working on this project for the last 10 years,” he said.
“My invention easily fits into the size of a personal computer case and can predict details of the next 5-8 years of the life of its users. It will not take you into the future, it will bring the future to you.”—click image for source…
The question always arises as to whether Time is an absolute given or, as the religious would frame it, just another creation such as space and matter. A phenomenon that may be eternal without any actual starting point, created out of the void at the point of creation and essentially temporal, subject to decay and obsolescence that works towards its own demise, the logic being all things have a departure pint, a beginning or they would have met their end somewhere along the road of an infinite past similar to the idea of a temporal and finite universe. Are there things that do not decay with time? Upholding the laws of Newton? If Time itself is a creation it means Pythogorean Theorem and the Laws of Motion are also creations, and like Time they never had to be, or they could have been created in entirely different forms, a world where 2=2 does actually equal 7.
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