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Dan Carroll
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Message 39 of 49 (168525)
12-15-2004 12:18 PM
Reply to: Message 31 by Percy
12-14-2004 9:28 AM


Re: Time reversal.
Anyone who witnessed smashed pieces of porcelan suddenly coming to coming together into a pristine cup which then lept off the floor and up into their hand would likely consider it a supernatural event, I know I would, but there is nothing in the laws of physics as currently understood that disallows this.
If time reversed, wouldn't the whole kit and kaboodle be reversed? Wouldn't your thought processes would be reversed as well as the cup?
I guess I'm asking, if time randomly reversed, then started going forward again, would we even notice?

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Dan Carroll
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Message 40 of 49 (168542)
12-15-2004 1:01 PM
Reply to: Message 39 by Dan Carroll
12-15-2004 12:18 PM


Re: Time reversal.
For that matter, if time reversed itself and then stayed reversed, would we even notice that? Wouldn't our reversed thought processes just think of what was now the future as something we already experienced, and call it the past, and think of the past as something unknowable that we still called the future, and...
Aw, crap, my head hurts. Thanks truckloads, Percy.

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Dan Carroll
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Message 42 of 49 (168548)
12-15-2004 1:21 PM
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12-15-2004 1:17 PM


Re: Time reversal.
Cool, I'll check it out. At the moment, I'm blocking out the whole concept by assuming a reversed universe would just be like the Red Dwarf episode where time goes backward: easy to comprehend, with lots of dried semen jokes.

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