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  Is there Such a Thing as TIme

  by givemejustalittlemoretime in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the present moment is real.

  however much you may remember the past or anticipate the future, you live in the present.

  the next second of your life is the future.

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  John_Mann

  (There is no such thing as a "time" dimension. There is spacetime.)

  There is time dimension as there are wideness and heightness.

  3 dimensions of space (x,y,z) and 1 dimension of time (t).

  As in any vetorial system if you accelerate in one dimension the others will decrease in module. If you accelerate in one space dimension your time will decrease, if you reach the speed of light in one space dimension your time will stop because the time vector will reach zero.

  Acceleration warps the (vector coordinates of) spacetime because that. Acceleration or gravity (same thing).

  For a reason (AFAIK it's unknown) the mass have the effect to change the rate of time acceleration, provoking what we perceive as gravity.
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  A peek in to future of transportation

  by jgnat in

  1. social
  2. current

  trends include self-driving clean vehicles and temporary leasing rather than buying vehicles (the driverless vehicle arrives to pick you up, and you drop it off at your destination).

  the result?

  1/8 the traffic on existing roads!

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  John_Mann

  Yes and I know there's a mode you can drive by the old way but the autopilot running in background ready to correct any imprudent move.
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  Is there Such a Thing as TIme

  by givemejustalittlemoretime in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the present moment is real.

  however much you may remember the past or anticipate the future, you live in the present.

  the next second of your life is the future.

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  John_Mann

  Yes I agree. It's just a curiosity and I'm just sharing information.

  I don't see any evidence of nothing at all.

  The Vedas are (much more) full of it too.
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  Is there Such a Thing as TIme

  by givemejustalittlemoretime in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the present moment is real.

  however much you may remember the past or anticipate the future, you live in the present.

  the next second of your life is the future.

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  John_Mann

  I'm not trying to base my ideas on the bible.

  I just showed a curiosity in a crazy ancient book about a very modern topic.
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  Is there Such a Thing as TIme

  by givemejustalittlemoretime in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the present moment is real.

  however much you may remember the past or anticipate the future, you live in the present.

  the next second of your life is the future.

  1. 
  2. 
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  John_Mann

  Well turning back this issue to a more "theocratical" tone (LOL), I'm always amazed how poetry can grasp deep things in advance.

  Speaking about nanotechnological transhumanism, I like very much a quote from the Bible about it:

  51 Look! I tell you a sacred secret: We will not all fall asleep in death, but we will all be changed,+ 52 in a moment, in the blink* of an eye, during the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound,+ and the dead will be raised up incorruptible, and we will be changed. 53 For this which is corruptible must put on incorruption,+ and this which is mortal must put on immortality.+ 54 But when this which is corruptible puts on incorruption and this which is mortal puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will take place: “Death is swallowed up forever.”+ 55 “Death, where is your victory? Death, where is your sting?

  Here the Apostle Paul (or whatever the writer) are speaking about the concept of (magical) transhumanism.

  But the most interesting thing its the word he used, poorly translated in other languages as "in a moment". He chose the greek word ATOMOS here. Even though that time the word have not the modern meaning it's still interesting WHY he doesn't used the word PARAUTIKA as in 2 Cor 4:17 to express a very short time. He chose to use a word that it's not usually a measure of time but matter. He use the word "tiniest particle" to express a measure of time giving the ambiguity to instead talking about time duration he could speaking about in WHAT or HOW we could be transformed. Wich could be translated as "bit by bit" instead of "in a moment". Using the translation "bit by bit" or (why not?) "atomically" would also eliminate the following redundant expression "blink of an eye".

  17 For though the tribulation* is momentary and light, it works out for us a glory that is of more and more surpassing greatness* and is everlasting;+

  Nanotech transhumanism is based on particle physics, and its very interesting why Paul chose a word that means particle to explain a concept of transhumanism.

  These little things that makes me consider the artistic value of the Bible.
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  53

  Is there Such a Thing as TIme

  by givemejustalittlemoretime in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the present moment is real.

  however much you may remember the past or anticipate the future, you live in the present.

  the next second of your life is the future.

  1. 
  2. 
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  John_Mann

  Yeah I think time is implied in E=mc^2.

  Einstein did a very good job discovering that space=time and gravity=acceleration.

  Every time you accelerate something you create a gravity force opposite to it. When you're in an accelerated car there's a gravitacional force pushing you back to your seat.

  We feel gravity to the center of the planet because the acceleration in time dimension.

  So we can make the strange statement that we're stucked on the ground because it's the shortest way between the present and the future.

  Who can controls the time will be able to control gravity too.
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  A peek in to future of transportation

  by jgnat in

  1. social
  2. current

  trends include self-driving clean vehicles and temporary leasing rather than buying vehicles (the driverless vehicle arrives to pick you up, and you drop it off at your destination).

  the result?

  1/8 the traffic on existing roads!

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
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  John_Mann

  I like this video:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-5Ts_i164c

  Now we are living a paradigm change just like these people.

  "Do you know there's rumors about horseless carriages?"

  "Horseless carriages? LOL! Tell me another joke!"

  "Yes we call them CARS for short."

  100 and something years later...

  "Do you know there's rumors about driverless cars?"

  "Driverless cars? LOL! Tell me another joke!"

  "Yes we call them ???? for short."
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  Is there Such a Thing as TIme

  by givemejustalittlemoretime in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the present moment is real.

  however much you may remember the past or anticipate the future, you live in the present.

  the next second of your life is the future.

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  John_Mann

  (The transference of your consciousness to a cybernetic body. Or perhaps having your brain in a jar, IF a way was discovered to preserve it indefinitely. Otherwise, you will die in this physical universe.)

  Every cell in human body is a modified bacteria and every bacteria is literally a biological robot. We are just machines, nanobiological ones.

  What if we could just change the substrate?

  Instead of organic material we could use inorganic ones so you will not be on the hands of organic decay anymore. It's just like to change the wood logs (one after each other) of a cabin by titanium (or "adamantium" LOL) logs. The cabin will be just the same but build with a different (easily renewable) material.

  It's a dream? Not at all because it already exists in nature, something produced by a blind process.

  And if something exists made by blindness, what you think an intelligent process (science) can achieve?

  It's just a matter of reverse engineering and TIME. But what nature took billions of years, science are achieving great things in a little bit more than 300 years.

  Nature works in a linear progress but science works in exponential... it will not take too much time to achieve a nanotech body. And you will not need to "transfer" your consciousness all you need to do is substitute parts of your cells little by little and you will never notice the process itself, because it will be painless no need for surgery because it will act in a nanoscale, it's just like to take an aspirin.

  As I said before even if you die now the information about you will never be lost in quantum (or spacetime) information, we can (from the future) scan your brain pattern moments before you die and rebuild it. In your perspective it will be just like a general anaesthesia, you will not even notice the time between...

  Speaking about it no one never experienced death in first person perspective, because death it's not an event in life you can't experience death. I think to those who died and if we could rebuild them even moments after death they would not remember of dying, just like you don't remember the moment you started to sleep last night.
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  53

  Is there Such a Thing as TIme

  by givemejustalittlemoretime in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the present moment is real.

  however much you may remember the past or anticipate the future, you live in the present.

  the next second of your life is the future.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
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  John_Mann

  (Who cares? YOU are going to die, regardless.)

  A civilization capable to understand the mechanisms of spacetime would be able to manipulate it and that's mean the very conquest of death to anyone (and anything, including animals and entire cultures, languages, art, etc..) ever lived/existed.

  If we learn how to use the mechanisms of quantum entanglement we literally can bring back anything to life again.

  If materialism is correct (and I think so) we can be entirely reduced to bits of information. And in quantum and spacetime realm the information is never lost we just have to find a way to scan this information.

  I think this will not be accomplished by humans in a direct way. I think it's necessary the birth of artificial intelligence to solve that problem. Humans can't focus on things that matter (this one IMHO) instead the humankind is more concerned about the next fashion of underwear or who have the holiest book.

  I have no hopes on humanity anymore I know we are obsolete and mediocre, I just hope our scientific system would be stable enough to bring the first sparkle of AI to existence. When this happen the age of man will be over. I'm watching for the coming of Exascale Computing (2025) and the Human Brain Project (2025) from EU. I think these two marks will be enough to build up a conscious AI. I don't know what will happen to humanity after that... I think we will have the option to merge with the AI...
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  53

  Is there Such a Thing as TIme

  by givemejustalittlemoretime in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the present moment is real.

  however much you may remember the past or anticipate the future, you live in the present.

  the next second of your life is the future.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
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  John_Mann

  (Time is not so much of a THING)

  Actually there's some possibility to a hypothetical particle of time/spacetime. Just like the graviton (the hypothetical particle of gravity).

  Time it's not an illusion, delusion or "dogma".

  Time is to physics as evolution is to biology.

  If we take time or evolution as illusion, physics and biology would not make sense and would be useless.