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[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 days ago

All potential realities of time are happening at once, you are just perceiving one slice of it.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I couldn't conceive of such a thing!

-i•t

[–] verstra@programming.dev 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] BB84@mander.xyz 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's a math trick. Not a physical theory.

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[–] omega_x3@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

It also works that the exact position of an object could also be complex so an imaginary and real location.

[–] KulunkelBoom@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago (4 children)

If it makes you feel any better - ALL "time" is imaginary. Time is a human construct that has no meaning outside of human endeavor.

[–] Fluke@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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.

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