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Is there an easy way to understand why physicists claim that time stands still in a black hole and at the speed of light? [closed]
This is not a physics question i.e. I have read many physics descriptions and I'm not interested hearing them again. I'm want to know if there is a simple way to understand the theory of relativity ...
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Transcendental Idealism and past time
According to Kant, time is part of the phenomenal realm. What would Kant say about past events such as the big bang when no minds existed? Would he say we can't know such things?
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Can anything truly be simultaneous?
I was looking at a discussion about simultaneous causation and something that came up was that all physical processes take time. So nothing can truly be simultaneous.
And yet, we have philosophers ...
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Time travel possibility by time space reflex action [closed]
It is an accepted theory that time travel could not be possible because of causality ( besides other things ) and so goes the grandfather paradox. To me it sounds like they are trying to make a very ...
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Philosophical implications of supplemental “time-like” dimensions?
Philosopher John G. Bennett proposed the idea that there are actually three time-like dimensions, in addition to the usual three spatial dimensions.
I would be curious to learn what the ...
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If I am infinitely old , can I have a father?
If I am infinitely old , can I have a father ?
And can I have a brother that is infinitely older than me but younger than my dad ?
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Are the experiences of the “flow of time” and of “cause and effect” qualia?
Physics and biology has no answer about why or how we personally experience the color red and we say that the experience of the color red is a quale. Physics also has no answer about why or how we ...
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The speed of Time
Most of out time-measuring instruments are based on repetitive physical phenomenon. These phenomenon repeat and every time their state matches the one in our recent memory, we tend to acknowledge, ...
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Must the present be instantaneous in a non-deterministic universe?
The special relativity theory teaches us that simultaneity is relative to the motion of our reference frame. This seems to contradict the intuitive notion of the present to be instantaneous. Some ...
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Does Bergson view symbols negatively or only as a secondary source of knowledge?
In the Introduction to Metaphysics, metaphysics is defined as "that science which claims to dispense with symbols." Bergson contends that the human mind operates discursively, or by taking snapshots ...
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Is there a point in universe that is observable at present?
We know that we can see distant galaxies only billions years before now. We can observe the nearest stars just several years before the present. Something on the Moon can be observed only some seconds ...
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Is time a physical factor or just a concept?
When thinking of cycles and myths, one cannot pass the idea of Kronos or Kali. That brought me to form some questions about the nature of time.
Three definitions for time:
Time is a measure of the ...
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Does there necessarily have to be a beginning to time?
Although, I can conceive of a potentially infinite amount of time ahead of me, for it is not actual as it remains to be experienced, I can't conceive of a potentially infinite amount of time behind ...
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How is knowing that I am going to die influencing my life?
Does the fact that I know I am going to die make me superior in a sense to all the other living creatures that have no understanding of this event? Is the fact that I know that one day I am going to ...
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Does thermal time hypothesis finally resolve Zeno's paradox?
Is Time Just A Trick Of The Mind? (read article)
Carlo Rovelli, one of the founder of Loop Quantum Gravity theory likes to think so. Furthermore wikipedia entry highlights:
This position has lead ...
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If something is permanently forgotten, did it still exist? [closed]
I have a question related to the philosophy of time. If something happened, but all memory traces and records of it has been wiped out, with not even indirect records left for forensic experts to ...
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relative merits of presentism, eternalism and the growing block universe [closed]
What are the relative merits of the different philosphies of time. Presentism states that only the present now exists, a la Julian Barbour. Eternalism posits an object spacetime stage where everything ...
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Can we be Boltzmann brains? Or, how can we be sure there is no conspiracy about the past?
The way things are traditionally presented about time, there is the present, the past is fixed, and the future is open. The second law of thermodynamics is invoked. But how can we be so sure the past ...
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Does time exist? [closed]
When we try to define time, we define it based on an event which happens periodically. For example, in a clock,we say that the time elapsed is 1 minute if the second hand completes 1 revolution. Here ...
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Is there a logic that takes time into account?
I hope this is neither too simple nor off-topic; I apologize if so. I have just noticed that standard sentence logic seems to make assumptions about time in determining the truth/falsity of a ...
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How do proponents of the Cosmological argument respond to the nature of time?
How do proponents of the Cosmological argument respond to the nature of time?
Is asking what occurred before the Big Bang like asking what is north of the North Pole?
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