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fosnow333
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so after the enormous 8.8 earth quake recently, earth has shifted on its axis and has made every day 1.26 milliseconds shorter. in like a billion years, there's going to be an entire week that just evaporates!!!! they're calling it lost time.....where the fuck did it go??
Mar 3 2010 9:45PM
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Jwalk
Posts: 4647 - Karma: 134
theres no such thing as time really
Mar 3 2010 9:47PM
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narwhal
Posts: 509 - Karma: 280
There's no such thing as cold either
Mar 3 2010 9:48PM
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[~_~]
Posts: 20239 - Karma: 1,273
Our conception of time is based on the revolution and rotation of the Earth relative to the Sun. Sooo if one of those variables changes...
Mar 3 2010 9:48PM
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J-Evs
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holy canoli
Mar 3 2010 9:49PM
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Klutch
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So since time is relative, and we base it of these factors, our conception of time must change?
Mar 3 2010 9:50PM
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have.faith
Posts: 338 - Karma: 97
it didnt go anywhere, the world is just turing faster so that day is shorter. it got added on the next day. so that 1.26 mili seconds isnt taken up in today, but they will be used tomorrow.
Mar 3 2010 9:52PM
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Leveroni
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My Cocks to big to let that happen.
Mar 3 2010 9:55PM
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[~_~]
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Change for what?

Humans use these factors of the Earth and Sun in an attempt to define the parameters of what we perceive as time. To think that time "disappears" because of an axial shift would be like thinking one can travel back in time by traveling between time zones.
Mar 3 2010 9:58PM
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narwhal
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The week that will 'disappear' in a billion years, will only disappear if we stay on the schedule we were on before the 8.8, otherwise it only shifted forward 1.27 miliseconds or whatever.
Mar 3 2010 10:02PM
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Gameboy
Posts: 2657 - Karma: 126
That explains why when I got up today, I was so tired. I was like damn it's like I 've slept 1,126 milliseconds less.
Mar 3 2010 10:04PM
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JakeAssBeatClap
Posts: 6673 - Karma: 2,535
seriously time is just like a measurement people created to cope with life.. think about it sometime when your baked it can change lives
Mar 4 2010 12:33AM
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Boggnarly
Posts: 115 - Karma: 12
^^ actually the fabric of the universe  is made up of space and time
Mar 4 2010 12:37AM
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steevner
Posts: 4502 - Karma: 47
That just made time faster. Clocks around the world will need to be recalibrate.
This also means our perception time will eventually get faster.
It also means world records will be harder to beat.
This changes the fate of our world.
My lines are getting shorter
How long will this go
Can I keep it up?
Looks like ln
Shorter still
leveling...
going
bye
go
I
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Mar 4 2010 12:38AM
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lineskier10
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lol
Mar 4 2010 12:39AM
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JakeAssBeatClap
Posts: 6673 - Karma: 2,535

i know this i took physics.. but would there be time if no one in the universe was around to measure it with clocks or days what would time be then?

Mar 4 2010 12:40AM
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steevner
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I'd say that it's more of a philosophy question.
Time is only a number assigned to the difference of a constant interval (eg. 1 earth rotation = 1 day).

The only constraint to time is that it needs to be initially assigned to a known constant interval, which could be tough to decide on without an initial concept of time.

...my brain

Mar 4 2010 12:45AM
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Bepo
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well since time and all other dimensions are only relative, time as well as spacial dimensions can never change. Really the only thing that changed is the location of the earth relative to the sun, now our orbit is slightly shorter and as a result our measurement of time is "off".

Since we can only perceive 3 dimensions and our movement in the fourth (time) is linear, to measure time we do so in terms of the 3 spacial dimensions.

Don't even get me started on time travel...
Mar 4 2010 12:50AM
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squibble
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wtf was that?
Mar 4 2010 12:52AM
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-Mugatu
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