QM: Does Time exist? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Atavachron wrote:

Valdez wrote:

(Takes long hit off bong… cough cough)

Nice. I smoked for years but had to stop due to a condition that causes terrible stomach pain & nausea called Cannabis Hyperemises. I occasionally miss it but the cravings pass. Now I just drink Scotch.

I quit because it caused me to overthink “everything”. Plus I found myself raising 2 beautiful daughters and they became priority. Being sober made me a better dad I think. They are in their late 20s now and doing fine. I have a beer or two every now and then . I had some problems with alcohol when my first wife passed. So I keep it to 2 drinks. But this coffee habit… dang!!

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I read Barbour's book back when it came out. I remember it being a rather dry, difficult read. If I'm remembering it correctly, much of it had to do with Planck length (or maybe Planck time?) and the "nows" were separated by this. It's an interesting idea, but I sometimes wonder if this is just mathematics trying to find a different reality that may not actually be there. I never read Smolin's book.

Valdez wrote:

If consciousness (as we reckon it) didn't exist, then time wouldn't either.

That's a curious idea worthy of thinking about. It sort of reminds me a bit of Donald Hoffman's studies on this in which he considers consciousness as something fundamental in the universe and the physical world emerges from that. It's kind of hard to wrap my brain around that, but curious nonetheless.

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nothing beats a good video about fractions

wiz_d_kidd wrote:

...then watch them in rapid sequence.

"Rapid sequence" is a time-dependent operation. You're using something that depends on time to define time.

Yep!! Hard to deny that!

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progaardvark wrote:

I read Barbour's book back when it came out. I remember it being a rather dry, difficult read. If I'm remembering it correctly, much of it had to do with Planck length (or maybe Planck time?) and the "nows" were separated by this. It's an interesting idea, but I sometimes wonder if this is just mathematics trying to find a different reality that may not actually be there. I never read Smolin's book.

Valdez wrote:

If consciousness (as we reckon it) didn't exist, then time wouldn't either.

That's a curious idea worthy of thinking about. It sort of reminds me a bit of Donald Hoffman's studies on this in which he considers consciousness as something fundamental in the universe and the physical world emerges from that. It's kind of hard to wrap my brain around that, but curious nonetheless.

Science boils down everything to just 2 components, energy and consciousness. All matter is energy fluctuations. Matter is not solid or motionless. If matter is comprised of energy, then can energy be comprised of consciousness? If so, the physical world emerges from it, along with the universe and anything in creation. Tis all a dream..

Atavachron wrote:

^ Which implies there is no 'God'.

If there is only consciousness, and only 1 consciousness, then God must have a massive delusional multiple personality symptom. Confused

Edited by CosmicVibration - 21 minutes ago at 14:31

that is my understanding, all that is, Is God. Existence itself, pure and simple, there is nothing else. Non-existence, by definition, does not exist.