Do you mean to define it as an arithmetic or geometric sequence? :)
Math is our friend, btw, if you need any help with your math endeavor, feel free to email me. I am assuming your math requirement is a Pre-Calculus College Algebra level course?
Regarding Time...
Discussion in 'Baptist Theology & Bible Study' started by humblethinker, May 23, 2012.
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You mean to say relative to an outside observer, correct? Would you say that there never was a time that I personally experienced time passing at a variant rate?
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Time is not a metaphysical essence. It has physical properties that can be measured and is tied to the finite physical universe. See GPS systems.
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If time is a measured quantity affected by those two parameters, is it physically possible to go forward or backward in time, maybe in relation to the speed of light?
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I once tried to get through a book about the speed of light and how time progresses at a different rate as one approaches that speed. I got as far as understanding as one approached the speed of light, time slowed down. That would in effect put you into the future if you returned to earth from a trip near the speed of light. I never did understand how one would go to the past.
Time travel, although impossible, has certainly made some interesting concepts and situations in the entertainment world. The Twilight Zone had some really good episodes on the subject. It even gets more fascinating when pondering time travel in relation to a sovereign God. -
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You mean, eight pages dumb? -
S/N has mentioned that if one could approach the speed of light time would slow down [called time dilation]. However, no one has ever approached the speed of light.
Physicist, Dr Russell Humphreys, has written a book Starlight and Time in which he attempts to account for the transfer of light from distant stars in days rather than light years during creation. In doing so he is using current theories. He is not trying to probe the mind of God and eternity which seems to be the purpose of the OP!
Read the following after my initial post!
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Everyone needs to remember that Old Regular was operating the teleprompter when the very first words were spoken. Let there be light.
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It has been repeatedly observed in fact, you mentioned GPS (I think) in one of your earlier posts, for GPS to function in a "correct" manner, it must be considered in the engineering of the system. Lorentz transformations (and possibly even more sophisticated mathematics) are necessary in time critical applications.
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