Damnit, im supposed to be writting a paper on the existence of time, and i can't get off this site, or i keep checking my orders to see when things are going to ship.. looks like grades are going to have to suffer until this build is over with. :/
Joined: 28 Dec 2010 Posts: 709 Location: Telemark, Norway
Link Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 11:01 pm Post subject:
Time exists. Without it, everything would happen at once, or not at all. There would be no point talking about your beer in terms of aroma, carbonation, mouthfeel, flavour, and aftertaste, because it all would happen at once. I drink beer, and enjoy all these qualities in perfect progression and succession, so time, or a perception of it, must exist. When I'm enjoying a really good beer, I'm pretty sure time slows down a little bit.
In conclusion, I drink beer, therefore time exists. _________________ ...just one more.
Link Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 11:55 pm Post subject:
Crush, time doesn't necessarily have to exist in the physical world. Yes things change, and to help ourselves understand these changes we use this concept of time, (that was arbitrarily set up in seconds:minutes:hours:days:etc.) But if you think of it as more of events can happen in the past/present/future or they can be earlier than/later than, and they can be both. But if events can be past/present/future, then events in the future would draw closer and closer to the present, till it becomes the present, and then farther and farther in the past. And if this is true, then the future must already exist.
So basically i lost my train of thought, and somewhere out in the future, we all already have our electric breweries set up, and we should all be very very jealous of the future us.
Joined: 28 Dec 2010 Posts: 709 Location: Telemark, Norway
Link Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 12:24 am Post subject:
I'm jealous of my future me. Definitely.
He's standing there, looking smug with his fancy pants electric brewery, dialing in the mash temp and relaxing for 90 mins. And there's me now, stressfully adding a quart of hot, then cold water, stirring, more water, stress, just to try to hit target mash temp. Grrr!
The future definitely exists. There are many of them to choose from, and that choice is made in the present. _________________ ...just one more.
Link Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 3:25 am Post subject:
ajt012 wrote:
Crush, time doesn't necessarily have to exist in the physical world. Yes things change, and to help ourselves understand these changes we use this concept of time, (that was arbitrarily set up in seconds:minutes:hours:days:etc.) But if you think of it as more of events can happen in the past/present/future or they can be earlier than/later than, and they can be both. But if events can be past/present/future, then events in the future would draw closer and closer to the present, till it becomes the present, and then farther and farther in the past. And if this is true, then the future must already exist.
So basically i lost my train of thought, and somewhere out in the future, we all already have our electric breweries set up, and we should all be very very jealous of the future us.
The future exists as a concept, not a certainty or as a destiny already determined... focus on the future you want to create, with your homework finished
Joined: 20 Dec 2010 Posts: 53 Location: Stuttgart, Germany
Link Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 6:29 pm Post subject:
Time doesn't exist? I guess what I learned about time in Engineering was all wrong. Time does exist and its time to have a beer. After that time, I will have another beer. _________________ Some people say the glass is half full, others say its half empty, I just wonder who has been drinking my beer
Joined: 23 Dec 2010 Posts: 570 Location: Pottstown, PA
Link Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 12:21 am Post subject:
man this is deep. Time is a concept to help out 4 dimensional brains understand our physical world we live in. Time is relative. We judge time by the cycle of our planet. If we ever discover alien life. I think the topic of time will be an interesting one. I wonder if there is an alien version of Kal. Out there building galactic brew on some electrical system.
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