Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 09/25/2003 - 3:41pm.
Archived comment by marinerd:
I've heard about time being the fourth dimension, but is it really? Is it a direction you can travel in, comparable to up, sideways, forward? I think you could make a case for that, but you'd be getting into semantics.
There are some physicists who believe that time (the way we perceive it) is an illusion our brains cooked up to enable us to function, and that one moment after another in one direction only is not really the way it works at all.
Of course, it's the way we are forced to deal with it so that taxi cabs won't run us down, etc. Anyway, just a thought to chew on in your spare time. *G*
I've heard about time being the fourth dimension, but is it really? Is it a direction you can travel in, comparable to up, sideways, forward? I think you could make a case for that, but you'd be getting into semantics.
There are some physicists who believe that time (the way we perceive it) is an illusion our brains cooked up to enable us to function, and that one moment after another in one direction only is not really the way it works at all.
Of course, it's the way we are forced to deal with it so that taxi cabs won't run us down, etc. Anyway, just a thought to chew on in your spare time. *G*