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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Gravitational Pull

« on: February 12, 2008, 07:38:40 PM »

I couldnt imagine a disk collapsing on itself though, or expanding for that matter. hmm

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Wow@easytoprove

« on: February 12, 2008, 07:02:41 PM »

you guys confuse me. Just when I think I understand what's going on, I fall into a pit of confusion again.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: New Here

« on: February 11, 2008, 05:08:43 PM »

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I appreciate you calling me "dog shit", but this guy is not me.  If it was me, I'd have responded a lot more to this thread.  And I'd probably have said something funny.
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or maybe, that was your plan all along!

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Technology, Science & Alt Science / Re: Why Time does not Exist

« on: February 11, 2008, 05:03:20 PM »

Finally, people get it!! The whole time being a dimension thing bugged me since elementary school.

* divito the truthist breathes a sigh of relief.

Time is too a dimension.  How is it not a dimension?  I may be different from a space dimension -- you can't see it --  but it still has a dimension.  That much is elementary, really, but time as a concept is not. 

Time exists merely as a consequence of the events taking place in it. Space is the same: it exists merely by the bodies and energies contained in it.  Einstein quantified this Aristotelean premise very well, as Germanicus said above. 

As far as human perception is concerned, time is made up of the recollection of memories in the present, the "now".  Time is a result of the way our minds process memories. 

Here's a little Heidegger for you:

Time is an unfurling whose stages stand in a relation of earlier and later to one another.  Each earlier and later can be determined in terms of a now which, however, is itself arbitrary.  What primarily the clock does in each case is not to indicate the how-long or how-much of time in its present flowing, but to determine the specific fixing of the now. 

(After that his shit gets really strange; he starts talking about pure Being and Dasein, which I think literally translates to "the-ness".  The the-ness of existence.  Jack Kerouac called this "IT! IT! IT! This is IT!")

So somehow is no events took place, would time still exist to contain these non-events? or would a non-event, in effect, be an event?

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Flat Earth Q&A / Transfer of enerygy between an object and space-time

« on: February 10, 2008, 10:08:14 PM »

Forgive me if this question is silly and nonsensical but...

As an object is traveling through space-time, is it losing any energy due to the interaction between itself and the curved space it travels through (in the case of this object being near a larger object)?