June 20, 20205 yr Author 13 hours ago, scianoir said: Isn’t this something to do with the space-time continuum? I remember trying to get my head around this many years ago while reading Stephen Hawking’s book and the concept was no easier to understand even after a couple of pints of Guinness! Bill Spacetime is a tough concept to grasp for almost everyone. And, frankly, while I love the guy, I don't think Hawking does the best job of explaining it. I like this book much better - The Fabric Of The Cosmos by Brian Greene. There are lots of other book choices also. But, whatever you do, don't buy anything that has the word "elastodynamics in the description ☺️. Here's a link to some the other books which might interest you: https://bookauthority.org/books/best-spacetime-books .....Doug Intel 10700K @ 5.1Ghz, Asus Hero Maximus motherboard, Noctua NH-U12A cooler, Corsair Vengeance Pro 32GB 3200 MHz RAM, RTX 2060 Super GPU, Cooler Master HAF 932 Tower, Thermaltake 1000W Toughpower PSU, Windows 10 Professional 64-Bit, 100TB of disk storage. Klaatu barada nickto.
June 20, 20205 yr Author 13 hours ago, HiFlyer said: Entropy defines the direction of the arrow of time........ And if you REALLY want to get into it..... Thermodynamic Asymmetry in Time https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/time-thermo/#TherTimeAsymBrieGuid Doug Intel 10700K @ 5.1Ghz, Asus Hero Maximus motherboard, Noctua NH-U12A cooler, Corsair Vengeance Pro 32GB 3200 MHz RAM, RTX 2060 Super GPU, Cooler Master HAF 932 Tower, Thermaltake 1000W Toughpower PSU, Windows 10 Professional 64-Bit, 100TB of disk storage. Klaatu barada nickto.
June 20, 20205 yr Administrators I have seen the future and all I know is "There's wine in my future"! 🍷 Charlie AronAVSIM Board of Directors-ADMIN/Moderator-RegistrarJust going to run a Chromebook and not upgrade to a Windows computer. Too many problems with the new Sims! 😱Trying to keep peace and harmony and the will of Landru on the site seems to be a full time job!
June 20, 20205 yr 9 minutes ago, W2DR said: And if you REALLY want to get into it..... Thermodynamic Asymmetry in Time https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/time-thermo/#TherTimeAsymBrieGuid Doug Uh, oh....... Boltzmann brains enter the discussion by the side door....... We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
June 20, 20205 yr Administrators 2 minutes ago, HiFlyer said: Uh, oh....... Boltzmann brains enter the discussion by the side door....... Bazinga! 🤪 Charlie AronAVSIM Board of Directors-ADMIN/Moderator-RegistrarJust going to run a Chromebook and not upgrade to a Windows computer. Too many problems with the new Sims! 😱Trying to keep peace and harmony and the will of Landru on the site seems to be a full time job!
June 20, 20205 yr If every lottery winner could remember the future there would be no winners. They would all break even. Then what would be the point? We would know every Superbowl winner and World Series winner before the games were even played. We would all know what fate awaits us, even our hour of death. And knowing that could we change the outcome? Noel The tires are worn. The shocks are shot. The steering is wobbly. But the engine still runs fine.
June 20, 20205 yr 2 hours ago, W2DR said: And, frankly, while I love the guy, I don't think Hawking does the best job of explaining it. And I thought it was just down to my sub-optimal brain! Indeed maybe it still was! Thanks for the book recommendations Doug - I had a quick run through all those titles in your link as I have a few other physics books on my shelf but I might look at the one by Brian Greene which you recommend. Of course the big question is whether my synapses, which are now about 30 years older than when I read Hawking’s book and greatly depleted I fear, will be up to the challenge. Perhaps I should get that bottle of Bushmills to go with it!! Bill Edited June 20, 20205 yr by scianoir
June 20, 20205 yr Well...... Imagine its a cyclic universe, where at the end of time there's a new big bang, and the whole thing repeats endlessly, exactly as before...... You might not be able to see the future, but could you see the future of a past universe version of you.....? (which for all intents and purposes would be equivalent to seeing your future.....) 🤯 Hahahahahaah!! We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
June 20, 20205 yr 4 hours ago, W2DR said: Spacetime is a tough concept to grasp for almost everyone. And, frankly, while I love the guy, I don't think Hawking does the best job of explaining it. I like this book much better - The Fabric Of The Cosmos by Brian Greene. There are lots of other book choices also. But, whatever you do, don't buy anything that has the word "elastodynamics in the description ☺️. Here's a link to some the other books which might interest you: https://bookauthority.org/books/best-spacetime-books .....Doug Sean Carroll (the physicist not the biologist) has released a rather good series of videos over the recent months about "The Biggest Ideas in the Universe!". One of the first is about time but all are interesting. https://www.youtube.com/user/seancarroll Dominique Simming since 1981 - [email protected] GHz with 16 GB of RAM and a 1080 with 8 GB VRAM running a 27" @ 2560*1440 - Windows 10 - Warthog HOTAS - MFG pedals - MSFS Standard version with Steam
June 20, 20205 yr Author I'm very familiar with the works of Sean Carroll. Even if he is, by my standards, still a young guy ☺️. His work at CalTech has been outstanding. And his book From Eternity To Here is a must read - I wish I had recalled it earlier. I never knew about these short videos. I'm off to watch them now. Thanks so much for the link.....Doug Edited June 20, 20205 yr by W2DR kant spel Intel 10700K @ 5.1Ghz, Asus Hero Maximus motherboard, Noctua NH-U12A cooler, Corsair Vengeance Pro 32GB 3200 MHz RAM, RTX 2060 Super GPU, Cooler Master HAF 932 Tower, Thermaltake 1000W Toughpower PSU, Windows 10 Professional 64-Bit, 100TB of disk storage. Klaatu barada nickto.
June 20, 20205 yr Loved the movie Arrival ok beside the aliens 😉 the idea behind the past, present and future i like the idea everything allready happened our consciousness and reactions today is based what happend allready in the future and the past, like a puzzle we dont understand at present.
June 20, 20205 yr Author 5 hours ago, scianoir said: And I thought it was just down to my sub-optimal brain! Indeed maybe it still was! Thanks for the book recommendations Doug - I had a quick run through all those titles in your link as I have a few other physics books on my shelf but I might look at the one by Brian Greene which you recommend. Of course the big question is whether my synapses, which are now about 30 years older than when I read Hawking’s book and greatly depleted I fear, will be up to the challenge. Perhaps I should get that bottle of Bushmills to go with it!! Bill Great idea. After about half the bottle you won't even care what time it is - never mind the direction.....Doug Intel 10700K @ 5.1Ghz, Asus Hero Maximus motherboard, Noctua NH-U12A cooler, Corsair Vengeance Pro 32GB 3200 MHz RAM, RTX 2060 Super GPU, Cooler Master HAF 932 Tower, Thermaltake 1000W Toughpower PSU, Windows 10 Professional 64-Bit, 100TB of disk storage. Klaatu barada nickto.
June 21, 20205 yr 22 hours ago, Nedo68 said: Loved the movie Arrival It's a great film, very emotional and thought provoking. Anyone watched the TV series DEVS which aired recently? That delved into this area of discussion in some ways - free will v predetermination, and that the future is already mapped out.
June 21, 20205 yr If my future had been mapped out it would have done by some entity with a lot of time on his hands and a great sense of humor. Most of you had maybe one or two careers, I had more than a half dozen. All opportunities that dropped in my lap so to speak. Noel The tires are worn. The shocks are shot. The steering is wobbly. But the engine still runs fine.
June 26, 20205 yr On 6/21/2020 at 10:57 PM, birdguy said: If my future had been mapped out.. If you believe in determinism, in other words, there is no such thing as coincidence 😉 We may regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its past and the cause of its future. An intellect which at a certain moment would know all forces that set nature in motion, and all positions of all items of which nature is composed, if this intellect were also vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in a single formula the movements of the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the tiniest atom; for such an intellect nothing would be uncertain and the future just like the past would be present before its eyes. — Pierre Simon Laplace, A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities
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