Why should I believe in an almost literal fairy tale? It may be hard to grasp, H. G. Wells to the contrary, but the past and the future are only memory and imagination, respectively. Only the present is a reality.
What a retarded statement. Not the "imagination" part, but past not being reality.
If you consider the past separate from reality, then you will repeat it as we are now.
It's irrelevant whether you believe in Looking Glass -- I personally think the concept stretches beyond our current understanding of space time anyway -- but to act like past and future don't matter is not only incredibly stupid, but incredibly shortsighted as well.
Before you respond, I understand your intended point but your way of presenting it is ludicrous.
It is only factual. Reality is what is present, to be seen and touched. The past is indeed memory, or history. Artifacts of the past are real enough, but they are not "the past" in the sense of anything relating to causes and effects. The future is unknown, though maybe predictable based on past experience and present trends.
I don't think you understand my point at all---which is that there is no such thing as "spacetime" as a physical plenum of events. There is space (3 dimensions) and time, but time exists only as the present. The fact that we can plot trajectories through time is only an aspect of physics, not evidence that there is a past or a future we can "travel" to.
Consequent to the above (and because the origin is just a tale), there is no Project Looking Glass. Nothing to be seen. Nor any concept of "seeing" it. It is hard enough to "see" the present.
Depends on if you believe in Looking Glass I guess.
Why should I believe in an almost literal fairy tale? It may be hard to grasp, H. G. Wells to the contrary, but the past and the future are only memory and imagination, respectively. Only the present is a reality.
What a retarded statement. Not the "imagination" part, but past not being reality.
If you consider the past separate from reality, then you will repeat it as we are now.
It's irrelevant whether you believe in Looking Glass -- I personally think the concept stretches beyond our current understanding of space time anyway -- but to act like past and future don't matter is not only incredibly stupid, but incredibly shortsighted as well.
Before you respond, I understand your intended point but your way of presenting it is ludicrous.
It is only factual. Reality is what is present, to be seen and touched. The past is indeed memory, or history. Artifacts of the past are real enough, but they are not "the past" in the sense of anything relating to causes and effects. The future is unknown, though maybe predictable based on past experience and present trends.
I don't think you understand my point at all---which is that there is no such thing as "spacetime" as a physical plenum of events. There is space (3 dimensions) and time, but time exists only as the present. The fact that we can plot trajectories through time is only an aspect of physics, not evidence that there is a past or a future we can "travel" to.
Consequent to the above (and because the origin is just a tale), there is no Project Looking Glass. Nothing to be seen. Nor any concept of "seeing" it. It is hard enough to "see" the present.