The Kraken Wakes wrote:Actually Sundance I think you'll find that among prominent philosophers, there are two distinct viewpoints on time. One view is that time is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a dimension in which events occur in sequence. Time travel, in this view, becomes a possibility as other "times" persist like frames of a film strip, spread out across the time line. Sir Isaac Newton subscribed to this realist view, and hence it is sometimes referred to as Newtonian time. The opposing view is that time does not refer to any kind of "container" that events and objects "move through", nor to any entity that "flows", but that it is instead part of a fundamental intellectual structure (together with space and number) within which humans sequence and compare events. This second view, in the tradition of Gottfried Leibniz and Immanuel Kant, holds that time is neither an event nor a thing, and thus is not itself measurable nor can it be travelled.
Ummm what he said
"Are you sure you want to go to red alert sir ?? That would mean changing the lightbulb ! "
no, i quoted the Doctor. i think a Time-Lord knows more about time-travel than some muffin who had an apple dropped on his head by an omnipotent alien.
The Kraken Wakes wrote:Actually Sundance I think you'll find that among prominent philosophers, there are two distinct viewpoints on time. One view is that time is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a dimension in which events occur in sequence. Time travel, in this view, becomes a possibility as other "times" persist like frames of a film strip, spread out across the time line. Sir Isaac Newton subscribed to this realist view, and hence it is sometimes referred to as Newtonian time. The opposing view is that time does not refer to any kind of "container" that events and objects "move through", nor to any entity that "flows", but that it is instead part of a fundamental intellectual structure (together with space and number) within which humans sequence and compare events. This second view, in the tradition of Gottfried Leibniz and Immanuel Kant, holds that time is neither an event nor a thing, and thus is not itself measurable nor can it be travelled.
Just wanted to turn the tables for a bit there
Well done krakers, you actually settled that one!
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The Kraken Wakes wrote: This second view, in the tradition of Gottfried Leibniz and Immanuel Kant, holds that time is neither an event nor a thing, and thus is not itself measurable nor can it be travelled.
but would it be fair to say that time travel is possible by using light and sight, we see events in space that have happened millions of years ago everyday as light travels though the cosmos, in theory providing we had the means we could travel into space and again if you had a powerful enough telescope look back on earth and view any event in history obviously the further you travel the further back in time you could see. Would that be considered time travel?
I think wherever you go and whatever you do you are always travelling through time, there are lots arguments on this but all are theoretical and everything is conjecture until science "proves" otherwise ...
But, to travel through space and look back on what people were doing in history with a powerful telescope would, in my book, be called "snooping".
