A New Theory On Time Indicates Present And Future Exist Simultaneously

[ehrnst]

Oh FFS...On top of everything else on our minds right now science decides to spring this on us.

The box Universe theory describes “now” as an arbitrary place in time and states that the past, the future and the present all exist simultaneously.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor of philosophy Dr. Bradford Skow suggests that if we “look down” on the universe as if we were looking at a piece of paper, we would see time spanning all directions, exactly the same way that we see space at some point.

So what does this really mean? Well, this suggests that time as we know it is incorrect, in other words, it is not linear as we have always thought. In fact, everything around us is always present.

Dr. Skow further details:

“The block universe theory says you’re spread out in time, something like the way you’re spread out in space. We’re not located at a single time.”

Dr. Skow agrees that while things change and we see time as if it were passing, Dr. Skow believes that we are in a ‘scattered conditions’ and that different parts of time may be dotted around the infinite universe.

https://sciencephiles.com/a-new-theory-on-time-indicates-present-and-future-exist-simultaneously-2/

[guillaumeb]

1. So Trump will always be President?

Sorry, I misread the word present.

[Generic Brad]

18. And he will always not be president

Savor that part if you will.

[elleng]

2. Persuade yourself of any damn thing,

invent 'problems,' GOOD NIGHT.

[panader0]

3. Dr Strange called this the Akashic Records.

He could view past or present using his All Seeing Eye of Agamoto,
an amulet hanging around his neck. Really old ('63 or '64) Marvel Comics.
I actually give a lot of credence to that theory. It's as if everything that ever happened
anywhere or anytime is etched in somewhere in time (time is hard to grasp).
I still have some of those old comics, they were the only ones I ever read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Strange

[Coventina]

4. I *heart* Doctor Strange!

I think he's one of Marvel's most overlooked and under-utilized characters.

[panader0]

8. I was doing psychedelics in those days

and I loved his stuff.

[Dr. Strange]

49. I approve this message.

[Coventina]

52. oooo!

[First Speaker]

7. I was a huge Marvel freak back then. Steve Ditko was the only artist who got Dr Strange right...

...all those weird dimensions and creatures. Kirby was the greater artist, of course. But Steve...I dunno. He was the one, for Those Who Knew...

[dweller]

5. 🤔

Time goes you say, ah, no
Alas, time stays, we go ...

✌🏼

[unblock]

6. Is there anything testable here?

[Takket]

9. theory is demonstrated here:

[Wounded Bear]

13. Fast forward...now!

[colsohlibgal]

10. Einstein Nailed This Decades Ago

His statement was this or close to it “ The distinction between past, present, and future is only a persistent illusion.”.

Existence and Reality are a real “Magical Mystery Tour”.

[Mme. Defarge]

11. Well, hello!

[H2O Man]

12. Now

(MMT wasn't George's favorite.)

[Loki Liesmith]

26. Well it would have to be confirmed for him to have nailed it

[Orrex]

14. 'How-how does the Universe end?' said Billy.

"We blow it up, experimenting with new fuels for our flying saucers. A Tralfamadorian test pilot presses a starter button, and the whole Universe disappears." So it goes.

"If You know this," said Billy, "isn't there some way you can prevent it? Can't you keep the pilot from pressing the button?"

"He has always pressed it, and he always will. We always let him and we always will let him. The moment is structured that way."

[intheflow]

40. Yep.

Vonnegut knew his shit.

[TomSlick]

15. As James Taylor said in "Secret of Life"

"Now the thing about time is that time
Isn't really real.
It's just your point of view.
How does it feel for you.
Einstein said he could never understand it all."

[LastDemocratInSC]

29. A beautiful song, one of my favorites.

[JudyM]

30. Mine too.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

16. trumPutin is here, now. Some of you are not clicking your heels hard enough.

[Martin Eden]

17. Tralfamadorians have always known this

So it goes.

[misanthrope]

19. What bearing would this have on

the work of Erwin Schrödinger and Hugh Everett?

[renate]

20. Wow. I love this question

If this theory of time were true, and if the Many Worlds hypothesis were true, wouldn’t this mean that every possibility already exists in the future? So, each universe created from every “now” quantum (or other) event actually already exists and has already existed, starting at time=0 and stretching out into time=infinity? So at the moment of the Big Bang, all the eventual universes were created simultaneously?

Oh how I wish I were a physicist so I could really grok this stuff. It’s so cool.

[hunter]

21. There are all sorts of similar theories.

One of my favorites is that the past is represented in the present in the same way the future is. In other words, changes in the present affect the past.

That's NOT in the sense that the victor writes history. We humans don't have the tools to manipulate the past on the macro scale; at best we can observe some non-intuitive effects on the quantum scale.

In some theories about time the universe always looks much the same no matter where or when you go, if you could go there, but we can't. Time travel and faster than light travel are impossible. We can only ever see the universe as it exists in the place and time that we are, in this present, in this now. Our present's past is an abstraction.

The idea that time is some peculiar "fourth dimension" which only runs in one direction is misleading. We might just as well live in a three dimensional universe where each dimension is two-thirds space-like and one-third time-like.

In that universe we are creatures of energy. We, and everything we know, is an interference pattern written on the light. Photons know no time.

[Turin_C3PO]

36. I read something once

that if photons had eyes, they could see every event that happened throughout time at the same time.

[Goodheart]

22. Meaningless drivel.

[End Of The Road]

25. +1000 (nt)

[LanternWaste]

43. Many people believe that about science.

Yet they never support that premise with objective evidence, but rather bumper stickers.

[Goodheart]

44. I don't believe science is meaningless drivel.

So your attack is fallacious.

[Mc Mike]

23. If time was created in the big bang, we have to be existing in time squared.

Because the very idea of the big bang not existing, then occurring, indicates that some kind of time already existed.

[Roland99]

24. Only if you're traveling 88mph

[dchill]

27. I can't wrap my mind around this...

Probably because I've been stuck in last week for most of my life.

[johnp3907]

28. I've known all this since tomorrow.

[sagesnow]

31. Iow, it is always NOW.

I am moving through the everlasting NOW. The past is only stored memories of my movements in NOW. The future is only my imagination; imaginings of what my future movements in the NOW might be. Time travel is not possible because when ever and where ever I am it is always NOW.

P.S. I stole this from Eckhart Tolle, Mooji, Rupert Spira and an army of other teachers of the NOW.

[Goodheart]

35. How soon is that?

[sagesnow]

37. Run at the speed of light yet

you will never be able to leave the Now. Drugs, music and sensory distractions only mask this truth.

[FM123]

32. Very interesting article. Was, is and always will be?

[JudyM]

33. I was just pondering the issue of linear time not being real yesterday on a long drive.

Tough for me to grasp.

Along the lines of the Buddhist concept of self/life being illusory.

[Buns_of_Fire]

38. As if I don't have enough to worry about. nt

[yortsed snacilbuper]

39. Do you know why we have time?

So everything doesn't happen at once.

[Hortensis]

41. :) Is that why some are SO resistant and alarmed at the thought?

[Hortensis]

42. So, just WHERE are Jefferson, Abe and FDR? Not when, though.

[drmeow]

45. in that case

Can I go back to the time when I was in my 30's, super fit, and 2 sizes smaller?

[lame54]

46. Watching too much Rick & Morty

[flt rsk]

47. Why is there a dog on the left wall?

[MyNameGoesHere]

48. Wormhole Aliens!

What? This was common knowledge on DS9

[Dr. Strange]

50. Basically, the theory boils down to this...

[Just_Vote_Dem]

51. My favorite Doctor

Remember-

don't blink!

[enki23]

53. Perfectly reasonable. More or less the scientific consensus. Not at all new.

Also not certain, and not experimentally verified. It's also unclear whether it would be practically verifiable. Still, it makes for a simple, gentle way to view the universe that doesn't lead to fear of nonexistence, and horseshit about afterlives.

[Baked Potato]

54. Sweet! This aligns with an Orange Sunshine theory

I had once.