| Does The Past exist? 18:13 - Jul 31 with 7645 views | Davillin |
[I can see several logical follow-up questions if we can have a courteous and intelligent discussion of his first one.]
Does The Past exist?
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| Does The Past exist? on 21:14 - Aug 1 with 928 views | controversial_jack |
| Does The Past exist? on 14:25 - Aug 1 by Liam |
Yeah but we're not asking if the present exists, we're asking if the past exists.
The past exists because stuff happened before the present and there is records of the past state compared to the present (i.e. posts sent a while a go).
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The past doesn't exist as it has gone. |  | | |
| Does The Past exist? on 02:41 - Aug 2 with 900 views | Davillin |
| Does The Past exist? on 21:14 - Aug 1 by controversial_jack |
The past doesn't exist as it has gone. |
Caveat: I do not disagree with you. But doesn't this mean that Time does not exist, and can't be measured or weighed? | |
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| Does The Past exist? on 08:47 - Aug 2 with 868 views | Cottsy |
| Does The Past exist? on 21:14 - Aug 1 by controversial_jack |
The past doesn't exist as it has gone. |
Look up at the sky at night (assuming it isn't cloudy) and you'l be looking back in time. |  |
| If man evolved from monkeys why do we still have monkeys? |
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| Does The Past exist? on 10:17 - Aug 2 with 864 views | controversial_jack |
| Does The Past exist? on 08:47 - Aug 2 by Cottsy |
Look up at the sky at night (assuming it isn't cloudy) and you'l be looking back in time. |
That's the speed of light hitting your eyes,not the past. | | | |
| Does The Past exist? on 10:33 - Aug 2 with 854 views | Cottsy |
| Does The Past exist? on 10:17 - Aug 2 by controversial_jack |
That's the speed of light hitting your eyes,not the past. |
But the light that we see is the light that was emitted hundreds/thousands/millions/billions of years ago so the light we see is the past.
Look at the Betelgeuse star in Orion, that may no longer exist but we can still see it. | |
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| Does The Past exist? on 18:54 - Aug 6 with 784 views | controversial_jack |
| Does The Past exist? on 10:33 - Aug 2 by Cottsy |
But the light that we see is the light that was emitted hundreds/thousands/millions/billions of years ago so the light we see is the past.
Look at the Betelgeuse star in Orion, that may no longer exist but we can still see it. |
It's like looking at a portrait from a hundred years ago. The painting is there for all to see from a hundred years ago, but it was painted in the present not the past or in the future. Only the present exists, nothing else | | | |
| Does The Past exist? on 19:51 - Aug 6 with 777 views | Catullus |
| Does The Past exist? on 18:55 - Jul 31 by yescomeon |
Ah, the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. |
As Prof Hawking postulated that we may be able to travel backwards in time, but not forwards (because it hasn't happened yet) I would say yes, it does.
But then, if you went backwards in time, you would be stuck as the future you came from wouldn't have happened yet. And if you went back past your birthdate then you wouldn't exist as you hadn't been born yet, so you couldn't be there, in the past.
It's way above my head. I'd like to think the other dimensions theory is right and that all parts of time co exist at the same time and there are billions upon billions of dimensions where every possibiltity is being played out. That would explain why the universe is expanding, because it needs room for all the new dimensions created when a decision, and all variations of that decision are made?
Maybe time is on a loop, the big bang happens and we spend billions of years going around it until the universe is destroyed, then it all happens again? In which case the past, present and the future all exist at the same time. | |
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