FabSwingers.com forum: Is time really a straight line?

By *lice Malice OP Woman
over a year ago

The Facility

Or is it more wibbly wobbly than most people think?

Would you take advantage of time travel if it ever became a viable option in your lifetime?

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By *an4funMan
over a year ago

london

I'd love to go back in time. An invisible observer. See how things were for the places I know centuries back

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

Wibble

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By *lice Malice OP Woman
over a year ago

The Facility

"I'd love to go back in time. An invisible observer. See how things were for the places I know centuries back"

Time tourism would certainly be an interesting concept.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Those in the West seem to see Time as a straight line (we are heading towards something and progress) while those in the East tend to see it as circular.

Of course these are mass generalisations.

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By *ockosaurusMan
over a year ago

Warwick

We travel through time in a straight line, so we perceive it as a straight line.

In the same way, an entity that constantly moved in a single direction would see motion as a single straight line.

There are theories about time being another dimension, in which other entities would be able to move through it in the the way we do 3D space, and we would only perceive them for the moment that they intersected with our time and space.

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By *VineMan
over a year ago

The right place

Space time is curved by gravity

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Time is an illusion

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By *heMightySpud69Man
over a year ago

Milton keynes

Lunchtime doubly so

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By *lice Malice OP Woman
over a year ago

The Facility

"Those in the West seem to see Time as a straight line (we are heading towards something and progress) while those in the East tend to see it as circular.

Of course these are mass generalisations."

I don't know much about it but I like the idea of it being fluid rather than fixed.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Wibbly wobbly timey wimey....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sometimes I slip song lyrics into conversations haha. No I’m joking I don’t really, but I would if I could turn back time.

Happy Friday people

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

As silly as it sounds I do like the idea of alternative time lines happening simultaneously.

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By *lice Malice OP Woman
over a year ago

The Facility

"We travel through time in a straight line, so we perceive it as a straight line.

In the same way, an entity that constantly moved in a single direction would see motion as a single straight line.

I saw a documentary programme on the tellybox a while back about wormholes and the possibility of folding them in half like a sheet of paper so that the entry and exit points were adjacent to each other and then just maybe being able to step from one time to another. I like the idea of that.

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By *lice Malice OP Woman
over a year ago

The Facility

"Space time is curved by gravity "

You're right, but that's getting a little beyond my understanding, especially for a Friday evening.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Or is it more wibbly wobbly than most people think?

Would you take advantage of time travel if it ever became a viable option in your lifetime?

It’s wavy

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By *lice Malice OP Woman
over a year ago

The Facility

"Time is an illusion "

I agree.

And absolutely frustrating at times when it is so fleeting.

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By *lice Malice OP Woman
over a year ago

The Facility

"Wibbly wobbly timey wimey...."

That's the badger

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By *iaisonseekerMan
over a year ago

Liverpool

For those who've read Slaughterhouse Five, the Tralfamadorian concept of time is pretty neat.

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By *lice Malice OP Woman
over a year ago

The Facility

"Sometimes I slip song lyrics into conversations haha. No I’m joking I don’t really, but I would if I could turn back time.

Happy Friday people

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By *olymalelincsMan
over a year ago

southend

"Wibbly wobbly timey wimey...."

Another doctor Who fan I see

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By *lice Malice OP Woman
over a year ago

The Facility

"As silly as it sounds I do like the idea of alternative time lines happening simultaneously. "

How so?

Would it be a logistical nightmare trying to get different time periods to cooperate?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Wibbly wobbly timey wimey...."

Dr Who fan or David Tennant fan? (Or both)

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By *lice Malice OP Woman
over a year ago

The Facility

"Or is it more wibbly wobbly than most people think?

Would you take advantage of time travel if it ever became a viable option in your lifetime?

It’s wavy

It is wavy - but where would you go, what would you do?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Wibbly wobbly timey wimey....

Dr Who fan or David Tennant fan? (Or both)

Both, obvs.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Time is an illusion

I agree.

And absolutely frustrating at times when it is so fleeting."

Time may not be a 'dimension' - and at a quantum level it's all different. It may be how humans percieve things which 'creates' time but then it isn't an illusion as we see it as real.

And perception of time changes which is down to how fast the brain is processing information. Why you get the 'slow mo' effect in a crisis the brain is taking in a lot more information at that moment.

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By *adMerWoman
over a year ago

Sandwich

"Wibbly wobbly timey wimey....

Dr Who fan or David Tennant fan? (Or both)

Both, obvs."

And why wouldn’t you be?!

It was definitely my first thought also

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By *lice Malice OP Woman
over a year ago

The Facility

"For those who've read Slaughterhouse Five, the Tralfamadorian concept of time is pretty neat."

It's an interesting concept of which I only know what I've just looked up via Google but I'm going to add the book to my reading list. Thank you.

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By *lice Malice OP Woman
over a year ago

The Facility

"Wibbly wobbly timey wimey....

Another doctor Who fan I see

They lost me with the new Doctor.

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By *ildbillkidMan
over a year ago

where the road goes on forever

There's a book called"conquestedor"by S.m.stirling, a time when Alexander the great didn't die when he did, setting up a whole new time line

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

"We travel through time in a straight line, so we perceive it as a straight line.

In the same way, an entity that constantly moved in a single direction would see motion as a single straight line.

It’s complex, the best explanation I’ve ever seen is this

https://youtu.be/vtkGtXtDlQA

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By *ockosaurusMan
over a year ago

Warwick

"We travel through time in a straight line, so we perceive it as a straight line.

In the same way, an entity that constantly moved in a single direction would see motion as a single straight line.

It’s complex, the best explanation I’ve ever seen is this

https://youtu.be/vtkGtXtDlQA

That's fucked up!

I love it!

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By *olymalelincsMan
over a year ago

southend

"Wibbly wobbly timey wimey....

Another doctor Who fan I see

They lost me with the new Doctor."

Yeah not so sure about the new doctor, Matt Smith and David tenant were both awesome doctors I think personally.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Time is fab straight

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By *elle xWoman
over a year ago

Doire Theas

"Time is fab straight "

This

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Wibbly wobbly timey wimey....

Dr Who fan or David Tennant fan? (Or both)

Both, obvs."

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Haven't helped her with the preachy scripts though.

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By *elshyXOMan
over a year ago

Newcastle

"Or is it more wibbly wobbly than most people think?

Would you take advantage of time travel if it ever became a viable option in your lifetime?

Suppose if you want to get deep, time is simply a man made construct, so in my opinion anything not in phsyical form doesnt have the same qualities as anything in the phsyical form, so it can’t be straight or bendy, it’s just a nothingness

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I thought it was a flat circle

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By *lice Malice OP Woman
over a year ago

The Facility

"Haven't helped her with the preachy scripts though."

Her accent is wonderful but just reminds me of The Flumps.

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By *lice Malice OP Woman
over a year ago

The Facility

"Or is it more wibbly wobbly than most people think?

Would you take advantage of time travel if it ever became a viable option in your lifetime?

A deep discussion wasn't what I envisaged, but if that's what people want to discuss then it's all good

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No I think there are three dimensions

Duration-horizontal time - past, present future

Eternal Now - vertical time - presence

Kairotic - orthogonal time - confluence of past influences, present potential and infinite future possibilities in which creative, timely action occurs.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Time is on my side if I live long enough...

Is it a science question or just chit chat one?

For example you go on hollidays come back it’s the same shit.

Space travel, you leave earth, hit behind earth orbit time dilation is different. But because at the moment we don’t travel space fast enough the difference is not noticeable.

That was the early work by Einstein and his Emc2 and it’s flaws...

Time is curved

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Haven't helped her with the preachy scripts though.

Her accent is wonderful but just reminds me of The Flumps."

Damn you. Need to check out the Flumps now.

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By *oubleswing2019Man
over a year ago

Colchester

"Or is it more wibbly wobbly than most people think?

Would you take advantage of time travel if it ever became a viable option in your lifetime?

Yes, it is more wibbly wobbly than most people think, and it has been demonstrably proven too, with more than enough experiments to explain the fluidity of time. The most important one can be found if you Google "time dilation Theodor Hänsch"

Nature.com provide a layperson's overview of it.

With regards to "would you travel in time, if it was possible?", I'm afraid the question is a moot point, since it is not possible. The speed of light is inviolate. You'd need to travel faster than the speed of light (and have no mass in to the bargain).

As it's an impossibility, it's not worthy of serious scientific discourse. Makes for distracting movies though if you enjoy scientifically-incorrect amusement.

"Time-Travel" is just one of those subjects Astrophysicists roll their eyes every time they get asked.

Another one is "What happened before the Big Bang?"

Nothing.

There was nothing happening.

Then there was the Big Bang, and that's when things get interesting.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Just don't blink what ever you do don't blink ok

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By *541Man
over a year ago

Southampton

I find time dilation pretty interesting the fact you could zip round at near light speed for a while swing back to earth and meet your ancestors! not that moving at those speeds is anywhere near possible ATM either but still cool to think about

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

O and duck x

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