the waves of time

Posted by MahFreenAmeh on Oct. 17, 2009, 10:40 a.m.

time shouldn't really be compared to anything physical.

i suppose it is one way of coping with the so-called ineffable, unknowable, almighty, inextricable, inexorably enigmatic constructs which we have not come up with a way to even come close to possibly imagining. but to compare time to something physical, is like comparing something concrete to the abstract, they belong to two different classes of objects (namely {x: x is concrete} and {y: y is abstract} for those of you who need to classify them [obvious though innit] ). surely some things in the world tend to have things in common, that is how it so seems to be with reality but the fact of the matter is, the abstract and the concrete have nothing truly in common, except for the fact that the concrete tend to possess rationalizations and facets of the abstract.

what a brave new world.

sometimes i sit back and am just amazed with how things happen, with life itself. i do not understand why it amazes me, why it has this profound effect on me, how it puts on this air of dormant nothingness. i suppose the zeitgeist follows itself in time.

it's hard to predict what one might say next whenever you really don't want to. even i cannot predict what i am going to say next, all i can do is sit here and type as though it were a stream of words escaping my entirety.

that aside, i must say, today is quite a fine day for dancing.

Comments

MMOnologueguy 15 years, 2 months ago
MahFreenAmeh 15 years, 2 months ago

@mmorpgguy or however you feel you should be properly and positively named, i would watch it if i held any interest but at the moment i do not. it intrigues me that you link me to a video about the fourth spatial dimension as nowehere did i mention the fourth spatial dimension but instead the kaluza-kleinesque idea of the fifth, temporal dimension, albeit in a more metaphorical and abstract way. so you will have to tell me exactly how the fourth spatial dimensio works into this

MMOnologueguy 15 years, 2 months ago

Oh wow I probably should have actually read that entry of yours up there.

MahFreenAmeh 15 years, 2 months ago

@mmorpgguy i'm proud of you

Josea 15 years, 2 months ago

I can't resist to say this, but we humans come up with abstract concepts as a way to represent and deal with physical phenomena.

SteveKB 15 years, 2 months ago

hey I know that I'm going to say cheese outloud next,…oh wow I just said it! I'm so smart

but no, time shouldn't be compared to a physical thing

but it can be recorded as data since data contains either kind of information

MahFreenAmeh 15 years, 2 months ago

@josea universe has to be coped with somehow.

of course i had already said this.

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i suppose it is one way of coping with the so-called ineffable, unknowable, almighty, inextricable, inexorably enigmatic constructs which we have not come up with a way to even come close to possibly imagining.

@meow44 time can be recorded as data, but data is not necessarily a physical phenomena, nor a truly concrete one, it's only the closest possible representation to the abstract that we can attain in the concrete. like words. words aren't truly concrete, they vary, but they tend to sort of represent the same general thing. they're the closest thing that we can attain to determining the meaning of something other than just pointing at things.

SteveKB 15 years, 2 months ago

you are correct sir

mesenberg 15 years, 2 months ago

time is money, we all spend 24 hours of it everyday. The question is, what are you spending yours on?

MahFreenAmeh 15 years, 2 months ago

@mesenberg you bastard.