Time And Stuff
Uh-oh. Another one of those ones.
Here's something that's been bothering me, and bothering me for some time. Maybe it's been bothering you too. I can't figure it out.
Why is it, right, why is it that I can remember the past, but I can't remember the future? Why is it that my memory - and knowledge - just falls of the edge of a cliff at right now?
I mean, time doesn't exist. It was only in 1660 that the first clock was invented that didn't only have an hour hand. Sundials, usd before watches, didn't have minutes on them. Long before that, people knew roughly what time of year it was and, roughly, what time of day it was. Noon - which we still recognise today - was nothing more complicated than when the sun was highest in the sky.
Now, we're measuring things to the nearest 1/100th of a second. The Olympics are coming up shortly - we'll be awarding gold medals and silver medals based on a difference in time that is only a fraction of the time it takes you to blink.
Does this mean that the future isn't written yet? Does it mean that I am responsible for creating my own future? Quantum physics says so - it says that you can't have a world without thought. That thought is what creates the world around you.
So does that mean that if I think I see a future in which I will be overtaking Darren Wheeler, then I am creating a future in which I will be overtaking Darren Wheeler? If I think I see a future in which I can easily pick up a 120kg bike (coincidentally, the weight of a BMW 450X), then I am creating a future in which picking up a 120kg bike is a piece of piss?
Is it just me, or does this stuff bother you as well? We can predict, to within fractions of a second, exactly when a rocket will land on the moon after it takes off from earth. Yet, at the same time, we can't explain how a bumble bee flies. But the moon is Up There, and the bumble bee is Right There.
Why can time only flow in one direction? Why can't I unscramble an egg, or un-fall off my bike? Who said it had to be so? Who decided, and why wasn't I allowed to argue about it?
Yes, I know, it's all the laws of Physics. But who made these laws? Why can't we make new ones?
Whizz, whizz, whizz.
But, have we really come so far in a single year:
One year. Happy birthday blog.
Here's something that's been bothering me, and bothering me for some time. Maybe it's been bothering you too. I can't figure it out.
Why is it, right, why is it that I can remember the past, but I can't remember the future? Why is it that my memory - and knowledge - just falls of the edge of a cliff at right now?
I mean, time doesn't exist. It was only in 1660 that the first clock was invented that didn't only have an hour hand. Sundials, usd before watches, didn't have minutes on them. Long before that, people knew roughly what time of year it was and, roughly, what time of day it was. Noon - which we still recognise today - was nothing more complicated than when the sun was highest in the sky.
Now, we're measuring things to the nearest 1/100th of a second. The Olympics are coming up shortly - we'll be awarding gold medals and silver medals based on a difference in time that is only a fraction of the time it takes you to blink.
Does this mean that the future isn't written yet? Does it mean that I am responsible for creating my own future? Quantum physics says so - it says that you can't have a world without thought. That thought is what creates the world around you.
So does that mean that if I think I see a future in which I will be overtaking Darren Wheeler, then I am creating a future in which I will be overtaking Darren Wheeler? If I think I see a future in which I can easily pick up a 120kg bike (coincidentally, the weight of a BMW 450X), then I am creating a future in which picking up a 120kg bike is a piece of piss?
Is it just me, or does this stuff bother you as well? We can predict, to within fractions of a second, exactly when a rocket will land on the moon after it takes off from earth. Yet, at the same time, we can't explain how a bumble bee flies. But the moon is Up There, and the bumble bee is Right There.
Why can time only flow in one direction? Why can't I unscramble an egg, or un-fall off my bike? Who said it had to be so? Who decided, and why wasn't I allowed to argue about it?
Yes, I know, it's all the laws of Physics. But who made these laws? Why can't we make new ones?
Whizz, whizz, whizz.
But, have we really come so far in a single year:
One year. Happy birthday blog.
posted by 2009 Dakar at
Thursday, July 03, 2008
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