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Old 07-23-2008   #491 (permalink)
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Re: What is time?

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Originally Posted by ldsoftwaresteve View Post
modest: I guess what I'm saying is that either everything in existence is expending energy and attempting to reach a stable configuration and is riding on the momentum of the big bang or there's something else that is driving change. Something makes electrons spin and chemical reactions take place.

It seems like we just take all of that activity for granted without even considering that there might be a universal cause. And the things which we call laws of nature might actually have a cause.

And I think that a big clue is how we've handled the concept of time. It indicates that we might have had a blindspot here, and by 'we' I mean the masses including myself. I really can only speak for me though. Maybe others don't get confused.
Oh yes, there is a big blindspot there alright, and in a lot of other places, too, not just in Physics and the natural sciences.

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