| Monte on Mar 19, 2003 at 8:37:40 AM (# 67) Here's the time theory...
Time, as we know it, is a quantitative value. Time itself can be measured. Segments of time have also been established to signify it’s passing. Examples of these segments are millennia, centuries, years, months, weeks, and etcetera. Yet, time is also extremely abstract. You cannot see it (with the exception being artificial means, such as a clock or other timepiece for tracking the progression of time), nor is it present to any of the other senses.
As a basis for this theory, I will use the argument that time progresses at a constant rate, and always positively (henceforth referred to here as the “time progression constant”. This is relevant to the theory, and is supported by the fact that many calculations performed in the sciences utilize time as a constant, with relation to a specific amount of time.
My theory is presented thusly: The present state of time, as we know it, does not exist. It is merely a perception of the mind.
The “nonexistent present” theory presents the following argument:
A specific action takes place at precisely 00:00:00 (midnight). According to the theory, and the time progression constant, before precisely midnight, 23:59:59, midnight would be the future, and immediately following the midnight hour, at 00:00:01, midnight would be the past. This may seem to disprove the entire theory. However, as surprising as it may seem, this is a supporting statement. Supporting how? You may be thinking that 00:00:00 would be the present, and that is correct, in part. However, note the precision of the time: HH:MM:SS. Seconds is as far as we take the progression. Should we take the progression farther, breaking up the second into its respective decimals, we find that the smaller units of time elapse more quickly than the larger ones, which causes time to move at the constant pace it does.
With this theory as presented in mind, and with the time progression constant, time travel as we anticipate it will be is impossible. In order to travel forward or backward in time (keeping in mind the time progression constant), one would have to be able to control an intangible: the rate at which time passes.
It's not quite finished...but you get the idea.
ChrisRickard on Mar 19, 2003 at 8:37:48 AM (# 68)
This message has been edited.96 97 (Monte posted before I did), getting closer...
>>Cancel the (a - b) from each side
You can't do that a-b = 0 which whould cause an illegal divide by 0 error.
Thats something you don't see to often any more, programs coming to a complete halt with only an "integer divided by 0" message.
ChrisRickard on Mar 19, 2003 at 8:44:14 AM (# 69)From Space Balls:
HELMET: What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie?
SANDURZ: Now. You're looking at now, sir. Everything that happens now, is happening now.
HELMET: What happened to then?
SANDURZ: We passed then?
HELMET: When?
SANDURZ: Just now. We're at now, now.
HELMET: Go back to then.
SANDURZ: When?
HELMET: Now.
SANDURZ: Now?
HELMET: Now.
SANDURZ: I can't.
HELMET: Why?
SANDURZ: We missed it.
HELMET: When?
SANDURZ: Just now.
HELMET: When will then be now?
SANDURZ: Soon.
HELMET: How soon?
tomaney on Mar 19, 2003 at 8:51:47 AM (# 70)Right on ChrisRichard!
(100?)
Frances on Mar 19, 2003 at 9:00:56 AM (# 71)Help, where's Terry? the world's falling apart ...
peterpaulrubens on Mar 19, 2003 at 9:30:02 AM (# 72)ok well i couldn't resist the urge to be the author of "HTML/SCRIPT Hiding 101" ....... :)
ChrisRickard: Thats something you don't see to often any more, programs coming to a complete halt with only an "integer divided by 0" message.
well, obviously you haven't programmed in Visual Basic recently.... (just kidding... nearly everyone writes the requisite 100 lines of VB code to catch that error :)
ChrisRickard on Mar 19, 2003 at 10:08:52 AM (# 73)>>nearly everyone writes the requisite 100 lines of VB code to catch that error
Suuurre... Hardly anybody just puts in an On Error Resume Next and calls it a day. ;)
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