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'Time is elastic': an extract from Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time
The Guardian ^ | 4/14/18

Posted on 04/20/2018 2:21:44 AM PDT by LibWhacker

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To: LibWhacker

Regardless of where you are in the universe, the time is always now.


21 posted on 04/20/2018 5:17:03 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

“That Einstein guy is so overrated.”

Einstein was hitting rock bottom in 1904/1905. He got his girlfriend pregnant and would have lost the only job he could get if his employer found out. His girlfriend had to leave the area and return home to her parents where she had a daughter, that disappeared from history. Whether she died or was put up for adoption is unknown.

During this time of emptiness, Einstein had his miracle year publishing 4 or 5 papers that were profound.

His increased popularity resulting from those papers caused Einstein to become full of himself and he lost his higher connection from which the knowledge flowed.


22 posted on 04/20/2018 5:25:53 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: 6SJ7; AdmSmith; AFPhys; Arkinsaw; allmost; aristotleman; autumnraine; bajabaja; ...
Thanks LibWhacker and GOPJ.

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23 posted on 04/20/2018 5:27:25 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (image: Shutterstock)
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To: Sirius Lee

What is a party?


24 posted on 04/20/2018 6:01:20 AM PDT by Badboo (Why it is important)
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To: Moonman62

In 1883 a compromise is reached with the idea of dividing the world into time zones, thereby standardising time only within each zone.


We forget how recent the implementation of time zones is.


25 posted on 04/20/2018 6:11:10 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: LibWhacker
...years that hurls us towards life then drags us towards nothingness....

Maybe for him.

26 posted on 04/20/2018 6:53:11 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: LibWhacker

“In other words, only a few years passed between the moment at which we agreed to synchronise clocks and the moment at which Einstein realised that it was impossible to do so exactly.”.........................It’s only a matter of time...................or is it a time of matter?.....................


27 posted on 04/20/2018 7:05:01 AM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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To: Robert DeLong

The effect is real, not an artifact of our instruments. And it’s not really correct to say time slows down more and more as you get closer to the earth’s core. Instead it slows down as you move to regions where the gravitational field is greatest or strongest. At the core itself, the strength of the field is zero: you’d float at the core if you hadn’t been burned up and crushed by the conditions down there, and your clock would run as fast as it can anywhere in the vicinity of the earth. I’ve seen some really great quotes about this that makes this clear. I’ll try to find some of them and put them up here for you.


28 posted on 04/20/2018 7:09:35 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

Posting this on 4/20 is no coincidence, right?


29 posted on 04/20/2018 7:22:44 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: Robert DeLong
Aha! Right here in this very article...
t is not just the clocks that slow down: lower down, all processes are slower. Two friends separate, with one of them living in the plains and the other going to live in the mountains. They meet up again years later: the one who has stayed down has lived less, aged less, the mechanism of his cuckoo clock has oscillated fewer times. He has had less time to do things, his plants have grown less, his thoughts have had less time to unfold ... Lower down, there is simply less time than at altitude.

30 posted on 04/20/2018 7:28:24 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: Badboo

Beautiful words.


31 posted on 04/20/2018 7:29:28 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Badboo; Sirius Lee
What is a party

ROFLLLL!!!

32 posted on 04/20/2018 7:31:18 AM PDT by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the SEALs of Extortion 17 - and God Bless The United States of America.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Thanks Civ


33 posted on 04/20/2018 7:37:36 AM PDT by GOPJ ( "Universities are becoming laughing stocks of intolerance." - Harvard professor Steven Pinker)
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To: Badboo

You’ve discovered what’s magical about life... thanks for sharing.


34 posted on 04/20/2018 7:40:30 AM PDT by GOPJ ( "Universities are becoming laughing stocks of intolerance." - Harvard professor Steven Pinker)
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To: LibWhacker
Fascinating. Deserves its own thread.

Thanks for posting this LibWhacker - - I had the same reaction you had...

35 posted on 04/20/2018 7:42:18 AM PDT by GOPJ ( "Universities are becoming laughing stocks of intolerance." - Harvard professor Steven Pinker)
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To: LibWhacker

Since we can’t actually reach the core, I was using the core more as a reference point to distinguish between the high peaks & low depressions on the earth’s surface, and that the affects of gravitational pull was the real factor. Since the surface of the earth is the point of gravitational pull, then yes the gravitational pull would decrease as you continued towards the center mass of the earth and when you got to true center the gravitational pull left, right, up & down would counter each other to result in a net zero gravitational pull. As you are being puled in all directions at the same gravitation pull.


36 posted on 04/20/2018 9:41:34 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: LibWhacker

Time isn’t holding us/Time isn’t after us


37 posted on 04/20/2018 9:45:23 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Badboo

Badboo, that was truly priceless. I salute you.


38 posted on 04/20/2018 9:48:35 AM PDT by Buttons12
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To: LibWhacker

The sun seems to revolve in the sky


Wouldn’t know. I haven’t look at it that much directly.


39 posted on 04/20/2018 2:09:33 PM PDT by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: themidnightskulker
AND whether you're waiting for the upstairs bathroom or the downstairs bathroom.

We sense the stretching of Present time. We cannot sense the past or the future expression of dimension Time.

40 posted on 04/20/2018 2:57:21 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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