08-03-2012, 07:45 PM
Oh indeed zen. Entropy increases the further forward in time from our "present" is an idea/theory that is readily accepted by many if not all. But Entropy should (and I believe does) increase the further back in time you go as well. Many do not like this, as this would imply that the past is not set in stone.
There was a theory I read by someone, and I cannot remember who wrote it, much to my dismay, that said that basically that the there is only one moment of existence (Planck second in length I believe he used [Planck second would be the time it takes for light to travel the diameter of a photon]). That the past and the future are just probability waves. Literally there is only now.
Intermittently I have been trying to track this theory down. I find it rather elegant, not sure how much veracity there is in it, but at the very least it provides an excellent framework for me to ponder on.
As far as the present goes, that would be interesting. You can only observe so much about something from inside of it, with only one point of reference I would be foolhardy to draw too much from that one source.
There was a theory I read by someone, and I cannot remember who wrote it, much to my dismay, that said that basically that the there is only one moment of existence (Planck second in length I believe he used [Planck second would be the time it takes for light to travel the diameter of a photon]). That the past and the future are just probability waves. Literally there is only now.
Intermittently I have been trying to track this theory down. I find it rather elegant, not sure how much veracity there is in it, but at the very least it provides an excellent framework for me to ponder on.
As far as the present goes, that would be interesting. You can only observe so much about something from inside of it, with only one point of reference I would be foolhardy to draw too much from that one source.