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Do you think time is cyclical or linear?

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  • 12-02-2018 5:38pm
    #1
    dd972
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    It's starting to feel more the former the more I look into it.


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    Beasty
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    I think time travels backwards, in a straight line - and I reckon there's no-one out there that can disprove that theory....


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    Duckworth_Luas
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    According to the clock on my wall time goes around in a circle. It also makes a ticking noise.


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    #4
    Ajsoprano
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    Time stands still everything else moves


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Cyclical or Linear time are mostly linked to religious or philosophical viewpoints. Personally I think it is a matter of Time being, fundamentally, linear with cycles along the way or that absolute physical time is linear but subjective time runs in cycles.


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    Ipso
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    Or a flat circle. And it has the best guitar solo of all time, and not comfortably numb.


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    kneemos
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    All I know it creates wrinkles,hair in places I've never noticed and blurred images.


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    Pat Mustard
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    Hypothetically, if Einstein-Rosen bridges (wormholes) exist, it might be possible to send something backwards or forwards in time. If that were true, time would not be fully linear. I think.

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    https://www.space.com/20881-wormholes.html


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    zuutroy
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    Absolute time doesn't exist.


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    Beasty
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    Chelsea Faint Visa wrote: »
    with cycles along the way or that absolute physical time is linear but subjective time runs in cycles.

    That's good. I likes cycles :pac:


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    Beasty
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    zuutroy wrote: »
    Absolute time doesn't exist.

    Absolutely!


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    [Deleted User]
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    Death created time to grow the things that it would kill.


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    endacl
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    Subjective time is linear, and that’s good enough for me.


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    Beasty
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    OK, if you want the definitive answer look towards Bowie:

    Time, he flexes like a whore
    Falls w@nking to the floor
    His trick is you and me, boy


    Sounds like it's neither straight nor circular to me...


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    MilesMorales1
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    People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.


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    #16
    legrand
    Registered Users Posts: 680 ✭✭✭legrand


    Per OPs original question..

    cyclical for me


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    #17
    Chancer3001
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    time doesnt exist.

    we just made it up to make keeping track easier


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    #18
    Atoms for Peace
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    "The Primary Universe is fraught with great peril. War, plague, famine and natural disaster are common. Death
    comes to us all.
    The Fourth Dimension of Time is a stable construct, though it is not impenetrable.Incidents when the fabric of the Fourth Dimension becomes corrupted are incredibly rare.
    If a Tangent Universe occurs, it will be highly unstable, sustaining itself for no longer than several weeks.Eventually it will collapse upon itself, forming a black hole within the Primary Universe capable of destroying all
    existence."
    -Roberta Sparrow (THE PHILOSOPHY OF TIME TRAVEL)


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    pleas advice
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    time flies like an arrow,

    fruit flies like a banana


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    Samuel T. Cogley
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    It's starting to feel more the former the more I look into it.


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    pleas advice
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    I think time travels backwards, in a straight line - and I reckon there's no-one out there that can disprove that theory....


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    #22
    kneemos
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    It's a wave pattern.


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    pleas advice wrote: »
    I think time travels backwards, in a straight line - and I reckon there's no-one out there that can disprove that theory....

    Theories must be: consistent, parsimonious, correctable, empirically testable/verifiable, useful, and progressive


    Yours fails in at least one criteria.


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    Beasty
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    kneemos wrote: »
    It's a wave pattern.

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    Beasty
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    Chelsea Faint Visa wrote: »
    Theories must be: consistent, parsimonious, correctable, empirically testable/verifiable, useful, and progressive


    Yours fails in at least one criteria.
    You are assuming the rules of science, as you believe you know them, are valid. None of us know - we may all be puppets - everything may be pre-ordained under a set of rules we will never know about let alone understand

    I, for one, subscribe to pleas advice's theory, with the addition of the number 42. Again I have no way of verifying or discounting this potential outcome...


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    Samuel T. Cogley
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    It's starting to feel more the former the more I look into it.


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Beasty wrote: »
    You are assuming the rules of science, as you believe you know them, are valid. None of us know - we may all be puppets - everything may be pre-ordained under a set of rules we will never know about let alone understand

    I, for one, subscribe to pleas advice's theory, with the addition of the number 42. Again I have no way of verifying or discounting this potential outcome...


    Many the religion has been based on less solid theology.

    Praise the prophet pleas advice and his venerable acolyte Beasty.


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    #28
    kneemos
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    Does time travel slower for those on the equator because they're travelling faster?
    Suppose I take a high speed train to work every morning. Do I age less than someone who walks?


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    #29
    Beasty
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    kneemos wrote: »
    Does time travel slower for those on the equator because they're travelling faster?
    Suppose I take a high speed train to work every morning. Do I age less than someone who walks?
    That's what Einstein thought - at the end of the day he did not use it to his own advantage! Of course, it's all relative;)

    But yes - that should happen, but the impact is probably so small to be unmeasurable


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    #30
    mickrock
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    The circle of life applies to life in general.

    Your own personal life is like a straight line that ends abruptly. Horray!


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    Four Phucs Ache
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    I was going to post what I think about time but my head melted and I hit clear text.


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