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General Discussion => Unwashed Village => Topic started by: Brugdor on December 24, 2007, 04:44:42 PM

Title: *sings* Tiiiiiime is flowing like a riv
Post by: Brugdor on December 24, 2007, 04:44:42 PM

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/12/18/scitime118.xml

"Time is running out - literally, says scientist

By Tom Chivers and Roger Highfield, Science Editor

Scientists have come up with the radical suggestion that the universe's end may come not with a bang but a standstill - that time could be literally running out and could, one day, stop altogether."

More at link

EVERYBODY PANIC!

Title: Re: *sings* Tiiiiiime is flowing like a riv
Post by: Haze on December 25, 2007, 03:55:03 AM

If time were to keep winding down we would simply slow down to match it. We would never perceive it, except in the way they discovered in the first place, by staring off into irrelevant corners of space. How would this affect anything?

Title: Re: *sings* Tiiiiiime is flowing like a riv
Post by: Tank on December 25, 2007, 09:34:54 AM

Don't miss the article about a second time dimension HERE (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml;jsessionid=ROMO4B02DCKU3QFIQMGSFF4AVCBQWIV0?xml=/earth/2007/10/10/scitime110.xml).

Title: Re: *sings* Tiiiiiime is flowing like a riv
Post by: Hoopy Frood on December 25, 2007, 06:25:14 PM

Odd. I haven't b e e n  n  o  t  i  c  i  n  g    a   n   y      t    i    m    e        d     i     l     a     t     i     o     n          r      e      c      e      n      t      l      y      .

Title: Re: *sings* Tiiiiiime is flowing like a riv
Post by: Doombot on December 27, 2007, 07:00:44 AM

I wonder what effect this will have on the Time Cube (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Cube) guy?