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General Category => Science and Technology => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on February 07, 2017, 04:27:43 PM

Title: More problems of time
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 07, 2017, 04:27:43 PM

No future - as the Pistols declared.


http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170206-physics-suggests-that-the-future-is-already-set-in-stone

Title: Re: More problems of time
Post by: Stranger on February 07, 2017, 04:57:43 PM

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Our intuition tells us that the future can be changed, but Einstein's theory of relativity suggests that there is no real difference between the future and the past.

Is this news?

Even apart from relativity - what would "changing the future" even mean? Only one sequence of events is going to happen (ignoring many worlds interpretation of QM) - how could we change it?

Title: Re: More problems of time
Post by: Udayana on February 13, 2017, 02:59:39 PM

How does this view change how anyone feels or behaves? ie. does it affect anything? Does it help in deciding whether to take up, or give up, smoking or golf say?

Title: Re: More problems of time
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 13, 2017, 03:06:03 PM

Does anything?