Dear Corpuscules,Corpuscles wrote:Thanks JL & StevenO
But "Time"?
Can I use or interpret that "dimension" as being the common everyday expression?
E.g. if I typed this post and it took say 30seconds and you similtaneously posted reply which took 30 seconds.... (attempting to provide allegory for phase conjugate, opposite but equal ,time posting) ....is that what those quotes are meaning?
I've read a lot of posts now on this site but I baulk when this "mysterious imaginary time dimension" ...comes into it.
eg JL's favourite "APM site" refers to reverse and forward time! I imagine Dave Thomsons aether description as somewhat similiar to Walter Russells description of the two spiral constantly collapsing and expanding standing vortex wave pairs....in opposite directions and suspect that "forward" and "reverse" time refers to opposite direction over a period of time?????
If is too hard to explain and/or I am way too dumb/ignorant ... Please just say so (too hard),and don't bother . I won't be offended at all.
Sorry to disrupt the thread
Don't despair. The interpretation of "time" is entirely human, so it means you are well alive and probably kicking.
The point is that human consciousness positions ourselves as an "observer" of this universe. By taking this position one ends up with an infinite regression of observations of reality that we perceive as "time". Compare it with glimpsing into two opposite mirrors or with the painter that tries to paint a picture of the whole universe as accurately as possible. He has done that, but then realizes he forgot to put himself into the picture. So, he positions himself three meters back and makes a new painting with the universe and himself on his previous position painting that universe. But then he realizes that again he did'nt put himself in that picture and steps another few metres back......ad infinitum.
So, the technical definition of time is a local repetitive motion, e.g. "The unit of time is the duration of exactly 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom at a temperature of 0 K", compared to another motion (forget about any other definition, like imaginary time, that's mathematical fantasy). For the universe however, something that moves one way also makes something else move the other way. So, for the universe time in one direction is simultaneously time into the opposite direction. One could say that for the universe "motion" is the only reality, while Time and Space are two human aspects of looking at that, like a play on a stage. Or to put it shortly, for the universe it is always "now", while for us observing humans "now" is something fleeing away into memory at lightspeed.
It is said that spiritual experiences help one overcome this restriction of the human consciousness.