On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 20:46 -0500, Peter Kupfer OOo wrote: > > > > > > Relatively speaking, time is an illusion. > > > > I don't know that time is an illusion. In order for it to be an > illusion, it wouldn't exist at all, would it?
Einstein showed that the reality is not the same as our interpretation of it. > Time exists. What you/we > call it is an artificial construct society has created, but time has to > exist. It always has to go forward. Not necessarily. Certainly not according to theory. See Feynman diagrams for example. The technology to make a time machine is currently beyond us but then so was getting across the Atlantic in a few hours just 100 years ago. > We always get older, things always > decay, cakes always bake. Entropy rather than time per se. http://www.hawking.org.uk/lectures/warps3.html This Hawking paper says it quicker and better than I could. Its not so much that time doesn't exist, rather its not what it seems. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL
