Time travels
Submitted by James on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 10:34am
Just in case you have any delusions that human beings have any sense of what reality actually is, think again.
If the observable universe were all that existed, it would be nearly impossible to account for the arrow of time in a natural way. But if the universe around us is a tiny piece of a much larger picture, new possibilities present themselves. We can conceive of our bit of universe as just one piece of the puzzle, part of the tendency of the larger system to increase its entropy without limit in the very far past and the very far future. To paraphrase physicist Edward Tryon, the big bang is easier to understand if it is not the beginning of everything but just one of those things that happens from time to time.
If time travels backwards in other universes
Then Mork and Johnathan Winters were right?
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They were indeed!
Very funny.
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I read a book
called the Wood Wife, by Terri Windling. It's fantasy, not physics. Time is envisioned as a spiral. Certain beings could move from one piece of the spiral to another - and sometimes the layers of the spiral collapsed or overlapped. Incredible writing - extremely imaginative and highly recommended. I don't know if it's still in print.
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