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Originally posted by Majestic23
I agree that all instances of time run at once and continously over and over again. Time should maybe be thought of as cyclical instead of linear, or as others have said, not to exist at all.
Great way to think about it though, I have absolutely no idea how to answer the question about the telescope. But for the universe to exist it has to be infinately big and infinately small at the same time.
Originally posted by Mookie89
And the guy that said something about a John Wayne movie being played now, that has nothing to do with this scenario. The movie was recorded, which means it can be played over and over as many times as you like, you can't play time over and over with the push of a button, now can you?
Originally posted by grapesofraft
Why does it have to be infinitely big and infinitely small at the same time to exist?
Do you have any proof that all instances of time run at once and continuously over and over again?
Where did you come up with this stuff? Just asking
Originally posted by Majestic23
Originally posted by Mookie89
And the guy that said something about a John Wayne movie being played now, that has nothing to do with this scenario. The movie was recorded, which means it can be played over and over as many times as you like, you can't play time over and over with the push of a button, now can you?
Yes, but it seems our higher self can. This might explain why when we have a near death experience we see our lives flash before our eyes. In essence our higher selves start to run our lives over again by mistake, as we have not actually died. However in realising the mistake they press, fast forward and our whole life runs again to the point where we were about to die. This implies that we never actually reach the point of death in our consciousness, time doubles itself continously forever at this point. As a famous researcher in this field put it, "cheating the ferryman".
This might also explain why we have strange points time to time, where we cheat death miraculously as though helped y a guardian angle.
Originally posted by Majestic23
Yes, that is exactly my understanding of it. It all seems very technological to me, almost computerised. I dont want to mention The Matrix but I can think of no better comparison.
Originally posted by HiranMaya
The present moment, is an infinitesimal cross section or slice of the entire history of the universe. If you could transcend human physicality and the perceptual boundaries that it entails, you can see that yes, all events are simultaneous in a higher reality, the present is all that exists and for some weird reason that I haven't been able to grasp, the present is eternal.
3-d wise, your experience of watching someone on a planet 20 years light way would indeed mean that it happened 20 years ago. But in reality, it is always happening, has always been happening and will always be happening.
Related reading:
"I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, Chapter 4
(sorry haven't figured out how to do quotes yet)