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Some people would rather stay off topic and discuss nonsense.
The pioneers in this thread have done well in keeping on track for some 4 or 5 pages .. that might be some kind of a record(?)
I've wandered a bit but I've at least tried to keep those wanderings limited to the time topic.
 
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What is the one dimension?
 
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If you mean the '1' in' 3+1' dimensions assigned to understanding the universe model, then its 'time'.
Eg: it appears in SR's Minkowski diagrams as the vertical axis.
That's not one dimension, it is two points of reference thus two dimension.
 
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That's not one dimension, it is two points of reference thus two dimension.
Two points don't make two dimensions anymore than 50 points make 50 dimensions.

A single point by itself is a 0-dimensional space. Two points can fall on a line with a single dimension, in a plane with two dimensions, in a volume of three dimensions or a higher dimensional space.
 
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And the dimension of time as applied to the universe, falls into a different category of 'dimension'.
 
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That's not one dimension, it is two points of reference thus two dimension.
Wrong interpretation of 'dimension'. I'm using the term to denote a whole different and more specific category of 'dimension':
Dimension:
Wiki said:
In classical mechanics, space and time are different categories and refer to absolute space and time. That conception of the world is a four-dimensional space but not the one that was found necessary to describe electromagnetism.
Not the best of quotes, but sufficient to distinguish the concept of time, as a dimension for the concept of spacetime. Concepts originate from our minds .. and are not some kind of 'thing', supposedly existing independently from our minds. There are lots of other ways to apply the concept of 'dimension' (see that same Wiki introductory paragraph for other examples).
 
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Do you just make up stuff as you go?
It was in reference to a dail moving in the post I quoted from point a to b.
 
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Ok sorry for the mishap, I was referencing the 2D moving animation in the post.
 
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Do you just make up stuff as you go?
It was in reference to a dail moving in the post I quoted from point a to b.
No, but you seemed to be. Without tracing the full set of quotes backward, the immediate post to which you were responding referred to a 3+1 foliation of spacetime and to Minkowski space. Neither of which describe anything two dimensional. Period.
 
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No, but you seemed to be. Without tracing the full set of quotes backward, the immediate post to which you were responding referred to a 3+1 foliation of spacetime and to Minkowski space. Neither of which describe anything two dimensional. Period.
I even told you what I was referring to yet you can't comprehend and stuck on Minkowski. It's obvious when you get focused on something there's no breaking it until your ready or realize or stuck in limbo.
 
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I even told you what I was referring to yet you can't comprehend and stuck on Minkowski. It's obvious when you get focused on something there's no breaking it until your ready or realize or stuck in limbo.
Yet another attempted diversion? @Hans Blaster has made signicant contributions to this thread.
Can you make one?
 
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Yet another attempted diversion? @Hans Blaster has made signicant contributions to this thread.
Can you make one?
So what contributions are you looking for?. Like it takes 8 minutes for light from the sun to reach earth or something of the OP?, though the second post said to ignore the rambling confused OP.
 
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So what contributions are you looking for?. Like it takes 8 minutes for light from the sun to reach earth or something of the OP?, though the second post said to ignore the rambling confused OP.
Yes there's quite a few rambling confusionisms ..
The exercise is to distinguish those from the good stuff.
 
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Interesting analogy, and it's pretty spot on though vision has the ability to see forward or backward in the current expansion of space. Of course a telescope is needed.

Technically if someone was standing on the east coast .u.s. and could look through a telescope to see the west coast it would be 4 hours in the future yet from the first stand point it's 4 hours in the past at the same time. Celestial objects closer to the edge of the expanse aka farther out than the milky way is in a space time not yet reached though possible to see it from its past point in the expanse in time. At the same time is counting down like the sun's age or Andromeda and the Milky way colliding. That may throw perspective time for a loop.

No one knows rather the expanse will continue or stop. If it stops then time will get extremely finite, nothing may not even rotate or move anymore to gauge time spent. A mechanical clock would become pretty useless If nothing in the universe is whizzing about like bees.
 
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However far the west and east coast are separated by the speed of light, is how far in the past you would see them, only it's not the past for either one, or each one is not in the past either one, but is just how long the images, or light, takes to reach each other's respective positions, but each one is actually in the or their respective "now" always, and nothing ever changes that, or can change that always, etc.

Take Care/God Bless.
 
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Everything is always happening "now", and nothing can ever change that, not even going faster than the speed of light to other places, like I've already tried to show, or explain, or demonstrate, etc. But everything anywhere is always happening at the same time equally everywhere that is a time called "now", and nothing can ever change that, etc. Time travel, or going to other places, and arriving at them at a different time other than "now" is not ever possible, etc, nor is sending anything there as well, etc. But everything at all places is always happening/occurring always at time called "now", etc, and however long it takes the images or light from those things to reach other places/people, or you; which is why they (or me/you) sees them older, or in the past, etc, doesn't really matter much regardless, etc. Because once you tried to go or send something to those places, the light or images would catch up, and you or it can only ever arrive "now", etc, and nothing can ever, ever change that ever, or can ever alter that time for you or other places called "now" ever, etc. That time is always locked into every single place no matter what, etc, and everything is always happening at the same time, which is also it's age, or everything is the same age equally everywhere no matter what, etc, which is at a time that is called "now", etc.

I hope this makes some sense, because I don't know how else to say it at this point, etc.

Take Care/God Bless.
 
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Yes I agree and distance is the reason everything is in their own time bubble. On earth is one time bubble, away from earth is the galactic time bubble which resides in the expanding universe bubble. Time is just a perspective of movements. Though without it there is no time but lifeless suspension.
 
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