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Haplo wrote:
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> >Oh, man. What a question. Maybe instead of objects, we should say points. I
> >want to go from point A to point B. It's a distance of one mile. I move
> >there and it takes me one minute because I'm going 60 mph. Time, one
> >minute, is a way to describe measure the relationship of the distance, the
> >motion (velocity?), and the beginning and ending points of A and B. Perhaps
> >time begins as motion begins and ends when the motion ends. But is still is
> >part of a greater time continuum. Perhaps time begins when the universe
> >begins (Big Bang?) and ends when the universe ends.
> >
> You always move.

true, the universe itself is expanding and the spatial dimensions
along with it.  the only place you might could stand still would be
if you were at the exact ground zero of the big bang itself.

> 
> >Except that if things weren't so far away, we wouldn't need so much time to
> >get there. I think they both have to be considered.
> >
> I don�t agree on that. Distance isn�t the real problem. The time it
> takes us to get there is. Time is what makes it a long distance.
> If we could travel at above c, we would say that Alpha Centauri is
> "nextdoors", while the absolute distance remains the same.

well really the only problem is that we only live a finite amount
of time then:)

> 
> >Yes, I suppose so. Leave a temporal dimension, enter another where time and
> >distance are irrelevant, and pop out at your destination 3000000 light
> >years away. It's profoundly speculative. Is there anything scientifically
> >substantial to hint at such a concept?
> >
> You can�t leave a dimension , since you are always present in all of
> them, just not moving in them (or not as fast as you would like to.)
> 
> Question: Would you out there consider "hyperspace" as the fourth
> dimension or as something else?

well mathematicly hyperspace is defined as the fourth dimension.


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