Time has so many wonderful attributes

[Square Wheels]

It's the same for all.

It always moves forward (screw Einstein)

The Brits can add extra letters.  It's a second, not a secounf, hour already has a U.

It's the same everywhere, except to the silly scientists who need to use milliseconds and such foolishness.

It doesn't run backward in Australia.

No one is immune to it.

None of us can escape it.

 

[Randomguy]

4 minutes ago, Square Wheels said:

Time has so many wonderful attributes 

More than Newsweek?

[Square Wheels]

4 minutes ago, Randomguy said:

More than Newsweek?

I like raisins, and Jim Dandees.

[Ralphie ★]

And it is allegedly on our side. 

[Ralphie ★]

And it waits for no one. 

[Ralphie ★]

We always used to say there was not enough time for a certain task and a wise cow- orker would always say “ time is infinite”.

[maddmaxx ★]

It can always be found between the rosemary and the sage.

[Ralphie ★]

1 minute ago, maddmaxx said:

It can always be found between the rosemary and the sage.

And it flows like a river according to Alan Parsons!

[Prophet Zacharia]

2 hours ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said:

And it waits for no one. 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vC0Qt1lvLq8

[Prophet Zacharia]

2 hours ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said:

And it is allegedly on our side. 

Tonight would have been my trip to Buffalo for the Stones concert. 

[maddmaxx ★]

There was a young lady named Bright

Who could travel quite faster than light

She departed one day in her Einsteinian way

And returned the previous night.

[Prophet Zacharia]

18 minutes ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said:

And it flows like a river according to Alan Parsons!

It keeps slipping into the future. But why anyone would want to fly like a beagle is beyond me.

[Parsnip Totin Jack ★]

Time is lying in the sunshine; staying home to watch the rain. You are young and life is long and you’ve got time to kill today.

[Prophet Zacharia]

21 minutes ago, Old No. 7 said:

Time is lying in the sunshine; staying home to watch the rain. You are young and life is long and you’ve got time to kill today.

And then one day you find, ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun. 

[a bunch of numbers]

It goes by faster the older you get.

[Randomguy]

10 hours ago, Randomguy said:

More than Newsweek?

Q: what magazine do kittens read to stay on top of what is going on?

A: Mewsweek 

[Ralphie ★]

1 hour ago, Old No. 7 said:

Time is lying in the sunshine; staying home to watch the rain. You are young and life is long and you’ve got time to kill today.

Lying in the sunshine made me think of this one.  Loved it when I first heard it. Especially the line aboot time standing still at 2:11.

 

[MickinMD ★]

"It's the same for all.  It always moves forward (screw Einstein)."

It's NOT the same for all and even Galileo noticed that four hundred years ago.  It's impossible for two people or things to experience the same rate of time is they are accelerating relative to each other.

Einstein never said time moves backward.  When I took calculus-based Modern Physics in College in the 70's, our studies of time changes did NOT indicate time could move backward.

That, by the way, is unique among the properties of the universe, which almost always come in pairs: to a backward there's a forward, left - right, up - down, positive and negative electricity, North and South magnetic poles. and most things are symmetrical - a violation of that symmetry is what lead Einstein to the Theory of Relativity.

So, if we left something on a table and moved to the right, we can correct the error by moving to our left and getting.  So why is it not possible that, when the tub overflows as time goes forward because we left the water on, we can't go backward in time and turn the water off before it overflows?

As a chemist/physicist, it seems more strange we can't do that than it is that our brains have gotten hard-wired into only thinking of time as going forward!

The late Steven Hawking, in his fantastic book, A Brief History of Time, uses only one simple formula in the entire book - and just uses it as an example, explaining all about time in plain words!

Hawking claims in the book that Time is tied to entropy and, because the entropy of the universe always increases (as per The Second Law of Thermodynamics), we only see time moving forward.  This raises an interesting question:

Entropy is a measure of disorder.  The more random things are or the more scattered they are or the more unstable they are, the greater their entropy.

Right now, the universe is expanding rapidly, tremendously increasing in Entropy.

So what happens if there's enough matter in the universe to slow down the expanding universe, eventually stop it and start it contracting?

Does the entropy of the universe constantly decrease and the "arrow of time" point in the opposite direction?

Will we relive Square Wheels Cycling in a reverse order 50 billion years in the future?

And, if the universe does contract to a single point, will there be another "Big Bang" that begins another universe and has this happened over and over in the "past."

I say "past" because, if the arrow of time shifts forward then reverse in each expansion then contraction of the universe, each new Big Bang is happening at the same time as the last big bang.  Does the universe repeat itself each time and so, we keep reliving everything or, more likely, is there enough randomness so there's a different universe each event?

But each new universe event occurs at the same time, so where are all the universes that exist in the same place as ours?

Are there, as mathematics claims, multiple dimensions and multiple universes?

Such a thing, by the way, is the only solid explanation for how electron particles can be shot through a tiny opening and behave a waves, stretching out to places they'd never reach as particles - unless there are multiple dimensions operating at the same time.

Yes, time has many wonderful attributes.