Path: csiph.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2016 17:51:57 -0500 Message-ID: <571D4E3D.71D3@ix.netcom.com> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2016 15:52:45 -0700 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: Time AND Space is an Illusion References: <5716A893.7508@ix.netcom.com> <5717CEE5.D7F@ix.netcom.com> <571852a8$0$31281$c3e8da3$dd9697d2@news.astraweb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 48 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.219.229.47 X-Trace: sv3-lmS57EyD9RQCTQBU5rFCJYSywLh404wdGS/5irH5fyYAfQFO3k8N0LKnf6ldqKkJqhwVW2NocB83bPE!rSDFVtTohcYjZ3gmmUycW6CoErJ70daHYFGDkK2T2t4ZBxEPh0ja0b/EaIwWXBxqSXkUA02+OlJw!Msklgi12XqM= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2749 X-Received-Bytes: 2861 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2794478119 Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:572960 sci.physics.relativity:382233 Sylvia Else wrote: > > On 21/04/2016 2:10 PM, benj wrote: > > On 04/20/2016 10:27 PM, Sylvia Else wrote: > >> On 21/04/2016 4:48 AM, The Starmaker wrote: > >>> Sylvia Else wrote: > >>>> > >>>> On 20/04/2016 7:52 AM, The Starmaker wrote: > >>>>> Time AND Space is an Illusion. > >>>>> > >>>>> and that's that! > >>>>> > >>>>> any questions? > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> What are you on? > >>>> > >>>> Sylvia. > >>> > >>> > >>> Is time an illusion, Mrs. Else? > >>> > >> > >> An illusion is perceptual process that causes something to have an > >> appearance that differs significantly from its reality. > >> > >> So it is difficult to attach any real meaning to your question. > >> > >> Sylvia. > > > > It's difficult to attach any meaning to things Starfaker posts, but > > nevertheless the question is a valid one. > > > > Can you imagine a situation where time is an Illusion? What does that > > mean. Well, it would mean that in your PERCEPTION events would progress > > and develop to your perception from the past to the present to the > > future. But since it's an illusion, it would mean that in truth nothing > > is changing at all and all events and seeming actions are perpetually > > fixed and immutable. > > Just because one doesn't see the entirety of something doesn't mean it's > an illusion. At the moment, I can only see the front side of my monitor, > and part of its supporting base. There's no illusion there either. > > Sylvia. It's a blurred illusion.