Thread: An Interesting Thought About Time

Thank you!
Very happy you like it, MrPriority!
But I need to flee from this thread now, not to keep editing, because I'm still unhappy with how I put zig things and might find yet more stuff...


And after finding the string theory thing, which does not actually pertain to the topic, but was so - yeah - educative and entertaining and fascinating, also nice and humorous and philosophical, that I wanted to share it - after finding that, I found something which does pertain.

It's about the existence of nothing (which is questionable).
Not really for nothing they've got two - let's for simplicity call them philosophers - on one side of the panel, too.

I said somewhere nothing cannot do that and that's also wrong, nothing can do a whole lot of stuff and there's different kinds of it as well!

Before throwing it in, I want to say a few things, this is the Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate, it's five people who know what they are talking about, and they do that, it's not a debate in the usual sense, it's a conversation hosted by Tyson, and you eavesdrop. Tyson tries to keep it on a followable track, and for the first time watching, he didn't really succeed for me, my eyes kept glazing over in confusion, but since I really, really liked it - I gave it a second watch, and maybe I'll do a third, because astoundingly, I did understand a lot more the second time around.

You gotta love Prof. Friedrich Gott, astrophysicist and cosmologist with his jacket from the future and multiverse-model in a piece of tupperware - and for one of his descriptions of nothing:

What is behind your head? What is beyond your field of vision?
It's not black, it simply isn't there for our perception, because we have no retinal cells pointing in that direction.
You go watch for more impressive variants of that, if you want to.



Edit: now - I had watched late last night, and now I just jumped in at points to show my husband, and I understood perfectly well, and didn't find something to demonstrate him where they lost me. So do not be deterred by what I wrote on glazing over.
Ah - I should stop worrying if people might watch or not, I will never know who might come across it and can only hope for the best!

Another after another etc. edit:
I keep finding things, this is nice, I was too lazy to go into thermodynamics and the arrow of time without finding the great documentary I once watched. I was looking for that in vain when I found the little alien. Aanyway:
New Quantum Theory Could Explain the Flow of Time | WIRED