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Re:A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future I... by imsaw on Friday March 17, 2023 @02:01PM (#35200549)
Interesting concept. I wonder if it's compared with spatial 3D space, then how large would the 4th dimension of time be if it were to fit the timeline of a human lifespan
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Re:A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future I... by kelseyfrog on Friday March 17, 2023 @03:55PM (#35202020)
A natural interpretation leads to time being very large and us moving very very fast through it.

It's convenient to model our movement through space-time as occurring at the speed of light. Thus, the faster we move in space, the slower we move in time all the while the length of our space-time velocity vector is invariably c. We can then imagine 1 second of time being interchangeable with 299,792,458m.

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Re:A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future I... by skinner_ on Friday March 17, 2023 @09:00PM (#35204910)
...which means that a Tralfamadorian would see an average human as a 6*10^17 meters long snake.
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