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Posted 12/24/03 - 12:27 AM:	#1
what is time? does it exist? did it begin? will it end?

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Posted 12/24/03 - 01:38 AM:	#2
What do you think ? As for me : " Tempus Fugit "
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Posted 12/24/03 - 01:54 AM:	#3
do you think someone will mention McTaggart's horrible paper?

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Posted 12/24/03 - 03:56 AM:	#4
what isn't time?
if X = -X, then -X. "existence" entails specifiable conditions (e.g. evidence, sound argument, search parameters, etc.) void, or perfect symmetry (i.e. no where/when/thing), necessarily is perfectly unstable. THAT there is something at all (i.e. broken symmetry e.g. quantum fluctuations) is "random"; however, WHAT that something becomes (e.g. universes) is not.

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Posted 12/24/03 - 07:43 PM:	#6
a pineapple, which is an aspect of existence, rots.
if X = -X, then -X. "existence" entails specifiable conditions (e.g. evidence, sound argument, search parameters, etc.) void, or perfect symmetry (i.e. no where/when/thing), necessarily is perfectly unstable. THAT there is something at all (i.e. broken symmetry e.g. quantum fluctuations) is "random"; however, WHAT that something becomes (e.g. universes) is not.

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Posted 12/25/03 - 03:08 AM:	#7
Yes, but pickles and cream are yummy.

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Posted 12/25/03 - 11:56 AM:	#8
To me, time is nothing more than the slow decay of matter, which is pretty much everything. Everything is related to time, which makes them an aspect of existance. I don't believe time ever had a beginning.

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Posted 12/25/03 - 01:20 PM:	#9
Time is a messurment....nothing more nothing less people. What some of you are confusing is motion and time. Just thought Id say something about this

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Posted 12/26/03 - 02:11 PM:	#10
WingsForth wrote: To me, time is nothing more than the slow decay of matter, which is pretty much everything. Everything is related to time, which makes them an aspect of existance. I don't believe time ever had a beginning. time corresponds to (is a measure of) a universe of differentiation. an undifferentiated universe, however, is "timeless". at the big bang symmetries broke & differentiation occured & time (measurable change) began. radiation (particle decay) clocks this universe. so far the time is "13.7 billion lightyears" & counting ...
if X = -X, then -X. "existence" entails specifiable conditions (e.g. evidence, sound argument, search parameters, etc.) void, or perfect symmetry (i.e. no where/when/thing), necessarily is perfectly unstable. THAT there is something at all (i.e. broken symmetry e.g. quantum fluctuations) is "random"; however, WHAT that something becomes (e.g. universes) is not.

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