Do you believe in time?

[npetreley]

Originally posted by Ray K

Of course, it's all impossible anyway because mass increases as velocity approaches c.

Ah, so now I finally understand why Catholics have mass as often as they do. It's the velocity of the earth.

 

[Ben johnson]

Of course, it's all impossible anyway because mass increases as velocity approaches c.

m'=m&#186 [1 - v&#178/c&#178][sup]-&#189[/sup] so that LIM (m') v=>c is &#156 (HEY---it's the closest symbol I could find here to infinity...)

But, that's only an asymptote, not an absolute... It may be possible to tunnel under the infinity-limit...

Do "tachyons" travel faster-than-light? How about gravitons???

Ah, so now I finally understand why Catholics have mass as often as they do. It's the velocity of the earth.

Oooohhh, that was baaaaadddd....

 

[Chris†opher Paul]

Originally posted by npetreley


IMO this is probably very close to being true, if not entirely true. The way I see the comparison is as if God is 3-dimensional and he has created us as 2-dimensional creatures living on a piece of paper. As 2-D people, we can't quite grasp what it's like to be 3-D. But just because it's hard for us to imagine what things are like from God's perspective doesn't limit His perspective. We end up making errors in our judgement simply because our perception is so limited (and He warns us repeatedly, by the way, that His ways are so far above our ways that it is a mistake to lean on our own understanding). For example, God could wrap the paper into a tube and poke His finger through the tube. Since His finger would intersect the paper in 2 places, we would perceive it as God being in 2 places at once, even though the reality is nothing like our perception.

IMO that's sort of what it's like with respect to our limitations regarding time and many other perspectives.

Very good post, thanks!

 

[Chris†opher Paul]

Originally posted by franklin


s0uljah, Hiyadoin, very thought provoking post.... That brings the question to mind, can God tell time? Why does Peter say 1000 years is as one day to God? Is God telling Peter that 1000 years is a literal one thousand years or is this to have a symbolic meaning of completeness? When God communicates time to man, He reasons with His creation in a way that man can understand Him. But in the scripture, God spoke to MAN! The time statements about the kingdom's establishment were made to MAN! The time statements in the Bible were spoken to man to encourage or to warn man. If God did not mean TIME when he used time words, what did he mean?

WASUP!?

God can tell time using our perspective, but He knows that it isn't "real."

 

[randman]

No, I can't say I believe time is the constant people beleive it is. Personally, I don't see time as linear and well-defined, except in a limited arena.

For instance, space-time can be created spatially as well as linearally in my opinion. Can't prove it, but the assumption is that the past is fixed, but I don't see it that way. God is able to change the past, just as the present, and the future. It is not fixed. The creation is like a novel, or a movie, and we are actors that play a role, and we do have choices, but God can intervene and do scenes over again and affect those choices.