Comments on: First time-travel movies reveal surreal universe

By: Jackus

Jackus — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:25:47 +0000

Reminds me of the novels “Peace War” and “Marooned In Realtime” by Vernor Vinge. How will the “bobbles” be used to benefit humanity?

By: GatorALLin

GatorALLin — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 20:25:42 +0000

-this comment helped me…. now I understand better…thanks!

By: Knute

Knute — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 19:34:25 +0000

I agree, Mark. I am totally lost.

By: asiwel

asiwel — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 05:18:36 +0000

Ah, yes, well … Gödel’s World .. one would expect it to be a bit different .. and, of course, never disproven! Douglas Hofstadter didn’t name his famous book “Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid” without reason. Mathematicians study interesting spaces and geometries all the time … and every so often one of these turns out to be amazingly relevant to real problems in our own reality! After all, consider string theory.

By: Bri

Bri — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 03:09:20 +0000

I feel like I should quote Morpheous when he first brought Neo to the ” construct”. He asks, what is real? What we think is real is just electromagnet energy interpreted by our senses. To bend the spoon you have to realize the truth. There is no spoon. Just a bunch of quantum dots gazing out at an illusion that they create. It’s really all a matter of perspective. Time and space are constructs of consciousness. Just home movies playing on the holodeck. The concepts or spirit of things is eternal. Time and space force a relativity. The concepts of things has always existed. It’s what manifests and when that creates the drama. Otherwise it’s all always happening everywhere. This video just changes the relativity of what appears and when. It’s still the same objects that your familiar with. Only your perspective has changed.

By: WLGJR

WLGJR — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 02:18:00 +0000

Very aesthetically pleasing and psychedelic.

By: Editor

Editor — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 01:05:46 +0000

Yes, please click on the “Related” link for the New Scientist article.

By: Thrillhouse

Thrillhouse — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 00:58:35 +0000

Zero understanding here. Was this clip part of a larger explanation?

By: someone

someone — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:49:54 +0000

It’s a 3d projection of a 4d picture, where the 4th dimension is time.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:14:09 +0000

This clip is bad. I don’t know if it is accurate or not, but even with a bit of background in this, I don’t understand it. Someone without any background would be completely lost.

Might be okay for Hawking, Susskind, and their ilk, but it isn’t very good for the rest of us.