Experiment What is the smallest unit of time? The arrow paradox.

[Incline]

If we freeze time then we can take that as a state of the world. Just like when you pause a game. Nothing changes at that moment. Then we take the smallest possible unit of time and progress to it then freeze again. Another state. Isn't our world just a bunch of states then? Nothing more but a glorified state machine. So many of this fucking greek paradoxes go unanswered it hurts to even think about them. What about the ship paradox if we start replacing a ship little by little at which point it stops being the same ship. I think it stops being the same ship the moment we alter even a miniscule part of it. We change every single second we are not the same even if we sustain most of our qualities over our lives. Maybe the only real us exist in the smallest unit of time. The state of the world where we are that until it moves to the next.

I do not fear death anymore. I am actually curious what will happen next. I can't wait to die tbh.

 

[Emba]

 

[BlackPill Scholar]

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[watcher]

......................what?

 

[Over_this_Life]

Whats the advantage to knowing what the smallest unit of time is?

What about the ship paradox if we start replacing a ship little by little at which point it stops being the same ship

Theseus’s ship, or something like that. Its a good one

 

[FinnCel]

Planck's time is the shortest amount of time physically possible

Planck units - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[l33tbl0k3]

my smol brain doesn't understand, time just moves right? even if time is paused the electrons are still moving even if it's a fraction of a fraction of a fraction unpaused then paused, so I guess the smallest unit of time is dependent on the speed of an electron

 

[WizardofSoda]

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If we freeze time then we can take that as a state of the world. Just like when you pause a game. Nothing changes at that moment. Then we take the smallest possible unit of time and progress to it then freeze again. Another state. Isn't our world just a bunch of states then? Nothing more but a glorified state machine. So many of this fucking greek paradoxes go unanswered it hurts to even think about them. What about the ship paradox if we start replacing a ship little by little at which point it stops being the same ship. I think it stops being the same ship the moment we alter even a miniscule part of it. We change every single second we are not the same even if we sustain most of our qualities over our lives. Maybe the only real us exist in the smallest unit of time. The state of the world where we are that until it moves to the next.

I do not fear death anymore. I am actually curious what will happen next. I can't wait to die tbh.

Yes Xeno of Greece I believe. There is many areas imo where the Greeks were actually ahead of where modern physics is, in terms of going deep into it.

There is also the continuity of acceleration. Like you can't go from going 0 km per hour to 60 km per hour, without going through all the intermediate speeds.

A question I have is whatever the smallest unit of time/distance is.. how do all the materials in the arrow 'jump' to the next point. I know in a computer monitor there is a refresh rate, and things moving across a screen, the whole object moves across the pixels.

But I think we might have a strange way of looking at it, that makes it seem like it makes no sense. A way I've been thinking about it is like an equation and 3D pixels, where the color of the pixel is calculated, and has to be a certain thing. Like the calculation for that pixel is influenced by what is happening in the pixels next to it. Even this is problematic through with fields.

And of course this then gets into the question of free will, like can organisms through thinking create multiple possibilities for the universe to go.

But its good you are thinking down this line. What soy scientist neckbeards do when they come across something like this is either just dismiss it, or come up with some lame excuse that doesn't really answer the paradox, and then not be willing to hear arguments against their excuse.

 

[Deleted member 27204]

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If we freeze time then we can take that as a state of the world. Just like when you pause a game. Nothing changes at that moment. Then we take the smallest possible unit of time and progress to it then freeze again. Another state. Isn't our world just a bunch of states then? Nothing more but a glorified state machine.

Ig it could be thought of that way. The same way movies are just a series of pictures and different audio clips if you think of it.

 

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See you yesterday

 

[Incline]

See you yesterday

Times me

 

[Emba]

Times me

Bon temps 'mi!

 

[Deleted member 11159]

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[NirvanaFan1988]

Yes Xeno of Greece I believe. There is many areas imo where the Greeks were actually ahead of where modern physics is, in terms of going deep into it.

There is also the continuity of acceleration. Like you can't go from going 0 km per hour to 60 km per hour, without going through all the intermediate speeds.

A question I have is whatever the smallest unit of time/distance is.. how do all the materials in the arrow 'jump' to the next point. I know in a computer monitor there is a refresh rate, and things moving across a screen, the whole object moves across the pixels.

But I think we might have a strange way of looking at it, that makes it seem like it makes no sense. A way I've been thinking about it is like an equation and 3D pixels, where the color of the pixel is calculated, and has to be a certain thing. Like the calculation for that pixel is influenced by what is happening in the pixels next to it. Even this is problematic through with fields.

And of course this then gets into the question of free will, like can organisms through thinking create multiple possibilities for the universe to go.

But its good you are thinking down this line. What soy scientist neckbeards do when they come across something like this is either just dismiss it, or come up with some lame excuse that doesn't really answer the paradox, and then not be willing to hear arguments against their excuse.

The universe is a chaotic system, this is the principle of the chaos.
Many "crazy" philosophists have been pinpointing how everything is a mess, and what we are doing, doesn't have many consequences.
Heck the universe is inconsequential, might as well fart or begin the third world war, discover the cure of cancer,etc...
But any milestone is pretty garbage in this stochastic universe.

 

[Deleted member 16390]

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