2006-07-27 14:27:56 · 27 answers · asked by teri 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Those who are AFRAID to think "Outside of the Box"_ That is called, "Mental Laziness" ( common dialog of beer-gutted-Couch Potatoes)
2006-07-27 15:45:20 · update #1
hmmm...
ponder that.
lol
2006-07-27 14:29:34 · answer #1 · answered by myotheremail108 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Since the equations that govern the Universe do not contain a time coordinate, it is not a necessary device to describe the world we live in.
That is why a majority of the top theoretical physicists today believe in the theory of parallel universes. That is, each time we make a decision, two universes occur, one in which we take the left path and one in which we take the right path. There are an infinite number of universes and we step across from one to the next as causal events happen. We choose to describe this motion from cause to effect as an ongoing flow of time in order to keep track of events as we perceive them, but actually time is an invention of the mind and not the Universe.
Therefore, to get back to your question, it makes no sense to think that way. Those of us who are alive are currently living "in the present" in an infinite number of parallel universes simultaneously so there is no past to go back to....just a decision or path you did not choose....and another you did... all occuring at the same "time".
So the now is all there is...for you, and all the other yous in all the other universes.
Your mind with its invention of the time coordinate can think there is a future and a past but really there isn't. Which is why all of the great philosophers suggest that you live in the present moment...'cos its all there really is!
So if the question was mental masturbation as suggested by a previous answer, then I guess I just arrived.... as the French would say!
2006-07-27 22:55:16 · answer #2 · answered by Taoman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As sentient beings we experience the future as unknown and the past as known. It is called the arrow of time a concept in fundamental physics. The second Law of thermodynamics is not violated in building organic beings because they are in a system open with the sun as an energy source as opposed to a closed system. If not for that Life or sentience is not possible given the concept of Entropy, which is related to the second Law of thermodynamics, and states disorder increases with time which makes death inevitable. Non sentient matter would have a sense of symmetry of the past and present, that is the arrow of time points in both directions. "Liberty comes in obeying the laws of nature"
2006-07-27 21:55:19 · answer #3 · answered by Boomiputra 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No we are living in the present only. A place where the infinite possiblities of the future are converted into an unchangable past.
2006-07-27 21:32:07 · answer #4 · answered by Roadkill 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if you are trying to be philosophical or just trying to play with words. Either way it's stupid. People can't remember the future because it hasn't happened yet and we are presently living in the present not the past. You idiot...
2006-07-27 21:32:54 · answer #5 · answered by Justin T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I walk backwards into Busterblock, and drop off the movie Forward to the Past, they tell me I will have to pick it up 2 days ago, I look forward to watching the movie yesterday.
Nope, we are all living in the present, right NOW, and the past only lives in our memories.
2006-07-27 21:37:58 · answer #6 · answered by Austin S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Easily answered with Quantum physics - Search the web for Hawking's Arrow of time theorum
2006-07-27 23:28:45 · answer #7 · answered by nauraa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
are you trying to tell us that you are your own grandpa?
are living in somebody's past...but also in somebody's future
and no one should know too much about their future, otherwise they might try to tamper with it....suppose you KNEW that a certain company was going to announce a major development or a significant quarterly profit...or that the state was going to put a freeway through a certain corridor....you could buy up all the land, or stock, or what ever, and control the future of whatever project...
that's where it gets dangerous to know too much about the future....
2006-07-27 21:50:06 · answer #8 · answered by panti-slave2006 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"there is no present, there is only the immediate future and the recent past."
remembering the future? have you ever tried to foresee the past? that's not out of the box, that's out of the mind...
2006-07-29 19:26:40 · answer #9 · answered by baerchen80 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are PRESENTLY living in a time that would have been the FUTURE in the PAST.
2006-07-27 21:43:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is called " Mental Mastubation" (common dialog of druggies and new agers).
2006-07-27 22:23:53 · answer #11 · answered by Festina 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋