Comments on: Time is A One Way Street… http://futurismic.com/2008/06/05/time-is-a-one-way-street/ Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001 Sat, 19 May 2012 23:03:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Arun Jiwa http://futurismic.com/2008/06/05/time-is-a-one-way-street/comment-page-1/#comment-14953 Arun Jiwa Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:10:01 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=3415#comment-14953 @ Tom, I agree, Brasyl is by far one of the best SF novels written in the last few years. If you enjoyed Brasyl, I'd definitely recommend ROG. @ Tom, I agree, Brasyl is by far one of the best SF novels written in the last few years. If you enjoyed Brasyl, I’d definitely recommend ROG.

]]> By: Dave http://futurismic.com/2008/06/05/time-is-a-one-way-street/comment-page-1/#comment-14942 Dave Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:24:10 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=3415#comment-14942 Causality appears to be unidirectional though (or maybe that doesn't have a neutral meaning -- but directional at least). Causality appears to be unidirectional though (or maybe that doesn’t have a neutral meaning — but directional at least).

]]> By: Tom Marcinko http://futurismic.com/2008/06/05/time-is-a-one-way-street/comment-page-1/#comment-14937 Tom Marcinko Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:48:24 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=3415#comment-14937 I can see I've got to read <i>River of Gods</i>. Also, <i>Brasyl</i> is one of the best sf novels of the last couple of years. There may be <a HREF="http://discovermagazine.com/2008/apr/25-3-theories-that-might-blow-up-the-big-bang" rel="nofollow">no such thing as time.</a> <i>In Barbour’s view there is no invisible river of time. Instead, he thinks that change merely creates an illusion of time, with each individual moment existing in its own right, complete and whole. He calls these moments “Nows.” “As we live, we seem to move through a succession of Nows. The question is, what are they?” Barbour asks. His answer: Each Now is an arrangement of everything in the universe. “We have the strong impression that things have definite positions relative to each other. I aim to abstract away everything we cannot see, directly or indirectly, and simply keep this idea of many different things coexisting at once. There are simply the Nows, nothing more and nothing less.” Barbour’s Nows can be imagined as pages of a novel ripped from the book’s spine and tossed randomly onto the floor. Each page is a separate entity.</i> I can see I’ve got to read River of Gods. Also, Brasyl is one of the best sf novels of the last couple of years.

There may be no such thing as time.

In Barbour’s view there is no invisible river of time. Instead, he thinks that change merely creates an illusion of time, with each individual moment existing in its own right, complete and whole. He calls these moments “Nows.”

“As we live, we seem to move through a succession of Nows. The question is, what are they?” Barbour asks. His answer: Each Now is an arrangement of everything in the universe. “We have the strong impression that things have definite positions relative to each other. I aim to abstract away everything we cannot see, directly or indirectly, and simply keep this idea of many different things coexisting at once. There are simply the Nows, nothing more and nothing less.”

Barbour’s Nows can be imagined as pages of a novel ripped from the book’s spine and tossed randomly onto the floor. Each page is a separate entity.

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