"It’s a car, it's a crash, it's a death, and you're scared. You just can't escape the scene"

Nov 11, 2004 20:02

tonight my family looked through all of our baby books and
old photo albums. birthdays and holidays... family photos.
except now the family photos arent so current anymore. old
faces begin to only exist in snapshots......


It is well known that the space/time continuum is curved. The curvature occurs as a result of the influence of mass against movement in time. The curvature is based on Einstein's field equation, modified:



Recently, it has been possible to detect this curvature. As three-dimensional beings, we perceive time only as a result of memory. We remember what was as a variable interval from what is now. If we had zero memory, we could not detect time - we would exist only for the moment. The result of this is our apparent perception of time as a linear line, always going forward. This is similar to primitive peoples perceiving the Earth as flat. It could be infinite - the horizon always kept bringing something new no matter how far they traveled; or, it could be finite, in which case there was the risk of falling off the edge.
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