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That whole linear time thing.

 
 
Tryphena Absent
22:47 / 03.09.01
I'm very confused... I have this recurring conversation with people: it keeps popping up, I thought you could help me.
The linearity of time is so inexcusable, Einstein, apparently, believed that time wasn't linear but I'm no physicist so I will ignore that whole possible section of this thought and continue in my own way.
It seems to me that I know quite a number of people who occasionally have those dreams where they predict the next days/weeks events. One of my friends tells me he has premonitions and can predict whole conversations. It's happened to me briefly a few times but never to that extent and it leads me to wonder if time is, in fact, linear. Does it go in a straight line or is it in fact all happening at once and thus changed by the human mind to allow us to comprehend it?
If it isn't linear can I subconsciously remember the future and what does it mean for all those psychoanalyst's out there? Help!
 
 
Enamon
23:25 / 03.09.01
Read Experiments With Time by J. W. Dunne. It was first published in the 30's but was reprinted quite recently. Interesting stuff, believe you me.
 
 
agapanthus
23:29 / 03.09.01
Don't know about the prophetic aspect of time but another interesting read on this subject is Cornelis Castoriadis "Time and creation" (a brilliant essay in one of his readers) : time = alteration in space: destruction/creation ?????
 
 
01
14:32 / 04.09.01
Defintitely read this.

[ 04-09-2001: Message edited by: zerone ]
 
 
Lionheart
20:11 / 04.09.01
Oh and don't forgte what he said in the next month's letters column...

I don't remember exactly what he said but it was something about that if there's no time and everything kind of exists then there's no reason why all probabilities should not exist. In other words you don't have a set future/present/past. They can all jump around.

Now can someone explain to me how time is space?
 
  
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