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TimeYep, tha

Time

Yep, that's the whole subject of this thread. I'm posting it on here because it's not very important, so while not a lot of people will see it, it won't fall to the bottom.

So, time. Time is odd. Right now, if I were face to face with my fifteen year old cousin (I'm thirteen) I would feel tiny and very shy. And he's only two years older. And the difference between a thirteen year old and an eight year old is HUGE.

But as we get older, well, time loses it's importance. I could marry somebody who is twenty right now- and it wouldn't be that big of a deal. That eight year old? When I'm fifty (thirty seven years from now) they would be 45- and I could just as easily marry someone that age. It's odd.

And my grandmother? She's 85, born in 1932. She's witnessed so much change. Wars, the television, smart phones, computers- it's so different! So, when I'm 85, this computer that I'm writing on is probably going to be a, dead, and b, an ancient artifact.

And I'm not even getting into the subject of time travel.

So, can you go back in time? If you went to the year before you were born- say, 1998, when you got there, would you even exist? And then there's the whole don't mess with time thing. If you made somebody have a croissant instead of an eclair, you could change the future. So. Odd.

And finally (I do not mean to offend anybody, and I'm sorry if I do), I'm Agnostic, bordering on Atheist. So, I've been thinking, Atheism (Not sure what to call that) says that there is nothing. That there is no beginning and no end to time. And thinking about that, the whole no beginning, not ever, just doesn't compute in my brain. Since we were little, we've alway been taught that everything has a beginning, even if nobody has directly said it- it's always been there. And so the idea of no beginning? That doesn't make much sense (How can something have no beginning? It's driving me crazy!), and kind of scares me, even though I accept it as possible truth.

So, yeah, those are my thoughts.

submitted by Evergreen, Noctem in Terra
(November 16, 2017 - 9:41 pm)

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I like those thoughts, Evergreen! I'm fourteen and I feel like 16 and 17 year olds are so much older than I am. I guess it's because in childhood and teenage-dom you're maturing so rapidly.

Time travel is a scary notion. There's this one Ray Bradbury story where a man goes back in time to the day of the dinosaurs, and the only thing he changes is stepping on one butterfly. When he comes back to his own time everything is completely different...

I think that "time travel" into the future could be possible, if your body was kept in a dormant state or something. But there's no way to get back into the past. 

The whole thing about no beginnings also holds true for Christians, who believe that God has no beginning and no end. It's such a weird thing to think about! 

You know how wizards like Merlin age backwards? Well I have this really confusing story idea that is sort of based on that. Basically, a girl is born early in the morning on one day, let's say July 10th. On July 11th she disappears. But the next day that she exists is July 9th, then July 8th, etc. Her awareness is the same as any other human until midnight, when she jumps back another day. It's really weird to think about...

There's a movie where this one guy has to live the same day over and over again... that would be awful!

And time freezing would be such a cool power to have. 

submitted by Shoshannah
(November 22, 2017 - 12:26 pm)
submitted by Top!
(November 22, 2017 - 8:03 pm)

Time kind of freaks me out. I could be in math, look up at the lock and it's 12:30. At least 10 minutes later it's 12:33. It's kind of aggravating, actually, up to a point where I almost laugh at myself for getting this hyped up over a clock. I'm so weird. :)

submitted by Allie, age 12, A Place
(November 25, 2017 - 7:48 am)

I know! Time is so complex and complicated! For example, babies and toddlers: if they are born a few months apart, it seems like SO MUCH! It's like, someone might say, "My baby is 14 months old." and if someone else said, "Mine is 2 months old," it would seem so different! But in reality it's just one year apart! If you are teenagers, and you are 12 and 13, it would be not a big difference, but if you are 12 and 20, you would think the other person is SO old or SO young! But when you get older, ages 81 and 89 are pretty similar to think about. 41 year olds could marry 49 year olds and it wouldn't be that strange! It's so hard to think about sometimes... like that grandfather paradox! If you travel back in time and kill your grandfather, then you wouldn't exist. But then you wouldn't exist to go back to kill your grandfather, but then he would be alive! Then you WOULD exist... then you would go back to kill him... and it goes in a circle again. It is SO hard to think about! I'm so glad that there are more people out there who, like me, love to obsess over time and its strangeness!

submitted by Alexandria
(November 27, 2017 - 9:29 pm)

Time is so weird! Like, I'll be sitting in school and it seems to take forever, but then later I'll look back and won't be able to believe that it's been three months since school started. Or that I'm 11. I could still believe I'm 9!

So, if time is the 4th dimension, and we're going with the theory that everything already happened and is happening, then if you time traveled back in time and talked to the younger version of yourself, then you'll remember that, and it'll be impossible for you to not go back in time.

I could go on forever on this topic. 

submitted by Kitten
(November 28, 2017 - 12:00 am)

I just listened to this audiobook that did a really good job of explaining Einstien's equation, and I sort of get it now. I listened to it over the summer, so I really need ot listen to it again, but it's SO COOL and SO WEIRD!! "The speed of light is constant." At first, I didn't really get that. I was like, isn't the speed of everything constant? But it's NOT! It's relative! If you ran toward a hand granade, the speed, to you, would increase. But, for somoeone watching from the sidelines, it would stay the same. Which is why normally don't run TOWARDS approaching hand granades, you run AWAY. Because then the granade would SLOW DOWN!! But the crazy thing is, light doesn't do that. Light is always constant. If light worked like everything else, if it was relative, than if you were going at the speed of light, it would be, relative to you, stationary, so you could hold a handful of stationary light. But no one has ever done that! So even if you are traveling at the speed of light, it will still travel away from you at the speed of light. And the crazy thing is, for that to be possible, time and space have to WARP to keep the speed of light contsant. TIME has to WARP!! Before, I didn't believe in time travel, but now, it seems more possible.

Sorry if I did a bad job of explaining. 

submitted by Shy Peacock, Tree of Life
(March 23, 2018 - 10:02 am)