• faythofdragons@slrpnk.netEnglish
    141·
    21 days ago

    inhales

    Time is a metaphor, a human construct that we’ve devised to explain how the quantum entanglements affect us. It’s like how we use color as a way to describe how we sense a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum with our optical organs. Neither time nor color are “real” in the sense that you can find a physical atom of it, but still useful language to describe how we interact with the world around us.

    • MunkyNutts@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      20 days ago

      Reminds me of Hawking’s quote, never read the book so might be out of context, but I remember hearing it and thinking

      This might suggest that the so-called imaginary time is really the real time, and that what we call real time is just a figment of our imaginations. In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down. But in imaginary time, there are no singularities or boundaries. So maybe what we call imaginary time is really more basic, and what we call real is just an idea that we invent to help us describe what we think the universe is like. But according to the approach I described in Chapter 1, a scientific theory is just a mathematical model we make to describe our observations: it exists only in our minds. So it is meaningless to ask: which is real, “real” or “imaginary” time? It is simply a matter of which is the more useful description. ― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

      • LordPassionFruit@lemmy.ca
        2·
        19 days ago

        I got to that chapter in the book (Chapter 10) and had to set the book down for a while. Not because it blew my mind or “expanded my understanding of reality”, but because I though I might understand what he meant and knew that absolutely couldn’t be the case.

        The first 6 - 8 chapters are genuinely a great read, do a great job explaining all of the ‘basics’ of black holes at a level that most people can understand.

  • lefaucet@slrpnk.net
    5·
    21 days ago

    It’s a 5 dimensional crystal, our experience is simply the refracted result of all matter/energy in the universe swirling about like water through a stream…

    So we can all feel validated in our disappointment that our experience frequently feels like mild constipation while trying to figure out which, if any, of the yogurts offers decent nutrition and probiotics at an affordable price because your body f’n hates lettuce, which your friend tells you the doctor will tell you to eat more of and you should go see the doctor, but doctors are expensive and your insurance is a confusing pile of long-ass 20 page letters containing word salad drenched in legalese, each one telling you you are no-longer with this group, but now you are with that group and you don’t even know where your doctor’s office is anymore