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Shhhhhh if you’re too loud, someone will try to monetize it
Come on, this has been a thing for the last 19+12i years
Plot twist: all time is imaginary time.
*stares at clock*
“I know your secrets you little dippo”Lunchtime doubly so.
Ever had a pan-galactic gargleblaster?
It’s rather like having your head caved in by a lemon wrapped around a gold brick
At least there’s lemon.
I read this book when I was an innocent kid and therefore completely missed the genius of
“What’s so bad about being drunk?”
“You ask a glass of water.”(It’s been a long time, might be paraphrasing unintentionally)
Same, though I guess I was old enough to get that because my dad used to be a heavy drinker. I don’t have the book for reference but I think that’s pretty Belgium good.
How could you use such an offensive word in a casual post!
But what about second lunch?
Quadruply so, I suppose.
If it makes you feel any better - ALL “time” is imaginary. Time is a human construct that has no meaning outside of human endeavor.
Time is as imaginary as up/down, left/right, forward/backward.
That is to say that the concept and it’s consequences exist no matter what we call it. Time is not a human thing, it’s one of the dimensions of the space in which we exist. Calling it “time” and a “second” being as many vibrations of a caesium as it is, that’s the human bit.
Time is a human construct designed for measuring and scheduling and has no meaning whatsoever outside of human endeavor.
The universe and the infinite space the universe resides in exist at “now” : an important tenet of ‘relativity’. No past. No future. Now. Past, future, time… these are constructs of sentient organisms. The universal “don’t believe everything you think” immediately comes to mind.
We exist in space. Space is infinite - it has no boundaries or edges, has always existed and will always exist. We also exist in this (“our”) universe - which is finite, did have a start date, and will come to an end someday. Not soon. Hopefully.
Space is also infinite “bigger” and “smaller”. But let’s save that for another time.
(but does cesium REALLY vibrate the same in different parts of space? h’mm?)
It vibrates relatively the same, depending on how much of it there is nearby. ;)
Environment.
I guess the tauon decays of its own volition then.
I know I do
All particles ‘decay’. Everything particulate decays. what’s your question?
My quick guess would be that this a theory that explain some weird phenomenon we don’t have a good explanation for yet. Like how we observe that stars and galaxies don’t orbit as they should and then say that there is “dark mass” which is responsible.
It’s a math trick. Not a physical theory.
Yup. Electrical engineering does something similar. The addition and subtraction of voltages, currents, resistance, capacitance, and inductance in AC circuits is basically unworkable without the shortcut of converting the sinusoidal waves into imaginary phase angles and doing math on them, and then converting them back to sinusoidal waves as necessary.
I tried to get multiple physicists to help me mine this imaginary time, but they all said that it was “impossible” and that it’s “not how time works” or something.
I guess people just really don’t want to jump on this money-making bandwagon.
Just keeping asking until someone (a go getter) gives you the answer you want.
All potential realities of time are happening at once, you are just perceiving one slice of it.
A huge portion of Americans aren’t sure the earth is round and ‘idiocracy’ is fictional.
I’m okay with the more esoteric things being reserved for those who can comprehend them.
Can people please realize that saying Idiocracy is a documentary is agreeing with eugenicists
Fallen into several arguments in Lemmy about exactly that. People give it way too much credence to what is functionally a eugenicist’s nightmare. I have no hard feelings at Mike Judge or even the movie really, but it’s fiction, not a warning from the future. Honestly, people need to stop treating fiction as documentary evidence in general. At best it’s interesting thought experiments, not something one should base their world view on.
People living in a society that de-prioritizes and under-funds public education:
Is this the result of Undesirables breeding?
TBF imaginary time is a math trick and not something that actually progresses. It lets us apply results from statistical physics to quantum field theory through a Wick rotation.
So true king.
And you’re trying to tell me that’s not a magic spell you just said? Pfff
It lets us apply results from statistical physics to quantum field theory through a Wick rotation.
That sounds like Geordi’s plan to save the Enterprise.
I now want to see a TNG/John Wick crossover.
the baddies killed his Tribble
John Wick taking down Moriarty and crew, because they got off the freaking holodeck again, and killed his new dog.
Edit: that doesn’t work. I can’t see Moriarty killing a dog. Maybe Genghis Kahn was working with him?
You’ve got to route it through the deflector dish.
Or AI slop trained on Geordi
we need a pause, then have them explain it in an easy metaphor.
Yeah, duh!
It also works that the exact position of an object could also be complex so an imaginary and real location.
I couldn’t conceive of such a thing!
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You can have as many dimensions as you want, just keep taking the integral
You can make as many dimensions as you want as long as you clean them up when youre done
You can only build one megastructure at a time
You must construct additional pylons.
I keep running out of regular time already, now you tell me I need to keep track of perpendicular time?
Yeah but it’s easy, just take the sine of regular time and you’re set.
I thought you had to find the square root of negative time to get it?
you can have imaginary anything. just imagine it! i especially like imaginary unicorns
For clarity, are you imagining imaginary unicorns or just regular non-imaginary unicorns?
it’s actually the square root of a negative unicorn, duh!
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Oh, you can interpretate anti-matter as either matter that has negative energy and travels forward in time, or matter with positive energy that travels backwards in time, and both interpretation are valid under Dirac’s equation.
I think you mean charge not energy.
Nope. Anti-matter comes as a negative energy density solution to Dirac’s equation
Oh, that’s the guy with the private lake, right?
