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Originally posted by blue bird
One could say, that space is a human construction also...in fact if you are a solipsist - everything is just in your had!
Originally posted by StellarX
I don't see why a open system can not behave in consistent ways as well or why closed systems must behave in completely predictable ways...
Originally posted by blue bird
LastOut - how do you know that there is “no beginning and no end“?
Originally posted by bodebliss
Because entropy increases and never decreases, nothing can be put back as it was. This is the one way arrow of time.
Originally posted by LastOutfiniteVoiceEternal
There is no God.
What you should ask your self is what would it feel like to have a consciousness of eternity?
If you believe in time travel and that every experience is merely a frame that is frozen in "time" for ever, then you are all ready conscious in many more than 2 places at once. You are still conscious yesterday and the day before, and you know this because you can re-member it in your memory.
You are the eternal consciousness.
Multi-verses? Infinite possibilities in an eternal expanse of space and time is a more in depth definition.
There is no "bubble universe", there fore there are no "multiple universes". Only an eternal expanse; an infinite illusional reality: Existence, eternity
[edit on 14-5-2007 by LastOutfiniteVoiceEternal]
Originally posted by Jager673
But what about the consious feeling you know as the present self? It would be really werird to have awareness at 2 different times at once, being there physically, like u are in present.
Originally posted by blue bird
This natural progression from order to disorder ( entropy) is speaking volume about imposing arrow of time on the system.
Originally posted by blue bird
Human existence sounds,the way you are speaking, so alienated, unnecessary mystified.... escape from reality...
We are mortals...what is wrong with that?
Originally posted by LastOutfiniteVoiceEternal
An "open" or unlimited system is consistent in being unconsistent (excuse my use of "un", I do have my reasons), where as a "closed" system may appear to be completely consistent with its limited and expected results. The results are limited and therefore expected because the system is limited.
Example. In a lottery with balls numbering 4 and 6, where three balls will be drawn to conclude a winner... we have a closed system; a limited system. All possible outcomes are known. 1.)444, 2.)666, 3.)464, 4.)646, 5.)446, 6.)664 (466, 644)
There are two variables to be drawn every ten seconds, 4 and 6. There are 9 of each variable. We have a 50% chance of either a 4 or a 6 on the first draw. From there we can induce and deduce percentages.
There are 2 variables being drawn in to a 3 number combination. 2X3=6. We know for SURE that the numbers will be dispersed in 6 different combinations, but after further investigation we know that there are 8 possible combinations in total. AxB+A, where A = the number of variables and B = the amount of digits in a combination. We also know that this equation is limited, yet always consistent with the implementation of P.E.M.D.A.S. AxB+A, A+AxB, BxA+A, A+BxA, etc.
A "closed system" is limited.
An unlimited system is not closed, nor is it consistent, only through its constant unconsistencies.
It will be unlimited with an unlimited amount of symbols to choose from and an unlmited amount of combinations to create. Also it will have an unlimited amount of equations.
Originally posted by StellarX
I'm not sure that you just said something so take another shot if you were attempting to make a point.
It could only be a closed system if we knew that the randomness we expect was not being influenced by the wishes of large numbers of people. These experiments have been done on large scale now and it has been confirmed that expectations of large numbers of people's affects their environment. Even with our basic understanding of physics at this point this is not in fact a closed system
I'm not impressed and once again if you wish to make a point i am sure you could do it without resorting to systems you have dismissed in the past.
A closed system is in fact closed and every action inside of it is understood and known to originate with internal forces; we are not currently aware of able to prove that such a system in fact exists.
If by unlimited you mean open you might have almost made a point consistent point. I don't understand, and i am generously assuming there might be, the proposed relationship between an open/unlimited system ( and i'm not sure how you want to prove that open must be unlimited) and 'un/inconsistencies either. Why can an open system not act in consistent ways while drawing on energy/forces we can not trace or measure?
That might be so but your opinion do not seem to be based on anything other than conclusions based on fallacies or misunderstandings of the forces in this universe we do understand. Why do you want to make it even harder than it has to be?
Stellar