Does the Past Still Exist?Follow

Another entry from "Thoughts from the Bong"

Time is the 4th dimension. Events that happened in the past aren't like...still in existance. They happened when they happened, to exist in the NOW, they'd still have to be happening. I'm typing now. I've typed in the past, but that's over and done with. The result of my typing is still around today (in the form of posts and blogs and gened papers fu[b][/b]ck those) but the actual act of typing is in the past and thus is no longer happening and does not exist.

The past doesn't exist just like dinosaurs don't exist.

Everything is based on energy so why wouldn't the past exist in another form, why would it's energy just die?

The Infamous John Titor

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Edited, Mon Oct 17 02:52:52 2005 by niobia

Yes, but good luck getting there.
er...then

Edited, Tue Oct 11 03:37:46 2005 by shadowvincent

Everyone knows if you generate enough speed while circling the sun, you enter time warp.

Of course the past exists.




It's just a jump to the left.........


.....and then a step to the right.

HELMET: When will then be now?

SANDURZ: Soon.

HELMET: .......How soon?


Mel Brooks FTW.

I think of time as less a tangible thing than as a convenient construct brought on by the way our conscious minds are set up. We have strong memories and the ability to plan events that need not be executed immediately. This gives us notions of "past" and "future", though we only ever exist in the Now.

The present moment is all we ever have. Our lives are lived on the bleeding edge of reality. (Ain't it grand?)

well, if the past exists as radiation.. (kinda like the Big Bang still exists as some kinda background radiation) then it could be that it is in the form of light, heat, and vibrations and are simply expanding outward into the universe.

don't just think of it as US, but every atom in existance.



This would mean the the Present is constantly being destroyed and re-created... It is the constant destruction and reconstruction of the form of every particle in the universe that comprise the Present.

Time , in that sense, is the progression of change....


Concider however, the "levels" of change... from a galactic scale, to a quantum scale... Some things would seem to never change.. or to be "set" the way that they are... I believe that this is merely from our own stand point.. After all, if we were the size of galaxies, wouldn't human activity seem rather fleeting insignificant to us?

back to work..




oh yeah,, so if the "past" does exist still in the form of various radiation... that implicates that it wil always exist.. the past in it's entirety is still included in the "present".



Edited, Tue Oct 11 13:28:50 2005 by Kelvyquayo

the past isnt really a radiation. Events of the past are stored in electrons.

Your past is stored in your body`s electron.

You ARE your past. Mean that you are made from your past.

The futur events can be seen. but not the futur itself. All choices that you will have to take already exist.

the "now" is when you have to define what choice you will take.

the past still exist ... the future already exist... they both can be seen.

the "NOW" is the only one who will come only once.

We are our past and our future.

We "live" in the present. The right question I think is : What is "To Live" exactly ?

Edited, Tue Oct 11 13:39:17 2005 by FrYzZ

Edited, Tue Oct 11 13:40:06 2005 by FrYzZ

The past exists, I've been there. I outsmarted bullies, almost faded into oblivion, and then totally rocked the house playing Johnny B. Goode.

And on another note:

Just how long is "now"? What is the smallest measurement of time? If everything is constantly being destroyed and re-created at the smallest measurement of time (if such a thing exists), well... um... damnit. I was on a roll.

Am I the only one thinking we're gonna stumble on to the secret of the atomic bomb?

In a word: No.

In a few words: Some of you people are completely f'ucking retarded. Of course not, dumbasses.

Reasoned: We are not our past. We are not made of our past. Chopra proposes that as the cells in our body recycle and replace themselves on a [9 week] cycle, so do we ourselves become new in that same cycle. Of course, Chopra fails to recognize the persistence and lack of regeneration of brain cells, so Chopra fails.

Science fiction theorises that faster than light travel will place us at a time before the occurence we view at travels commencing. This fails to take in to account that time does not stand still simply because we haven't seen the light (on so many levels). Faster than light travel would simply allow us to an event prior to those at our point of origin see it.

The idea that Time is a fourth dimension, and therefore able to be manipulated in a similar manner to the spacial 3 dimensions is inherently flawed. The constructs used to demonstrate this idea deal with relativism and fail to take in to account the march of time without regard for the localized implement. The idea that a bouncing ball in a vessel would take longer to bounce as c is approached than a bouncing ball in a stationary position ignore the fundamental operation of time.

So, while the reflection of the past will always exist in the form of long range light travel, our relation to it will remain irrelavent as it is but an illusion.