Author Topic: The end of time?  (Read 7551 times)

satchel_dawg

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Re: The end of time?
« Reply #30 on: April 29, 2007, 01:51:32 pm »
Time is an illusion, it's man made. it only exist as a marker for when things occur. yes it theoretically exist, but in the same sense it can't be seen, only the efects of time can be seen.

The end of time is most likely just an area where time is vacant, it doesn't move normally, which would explain why nothing gets older, Gasper never ages. it's probably just a stopped point in time.

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Re: The end of time?
« Reply #31 on: May 04, 2007, 01:48:18 am »
Time is an illusion, it's man made. it only exist as a marker for when things occur. yes it theoretically exist, but in the same sense it can't be seen, only the efects of time can be seen.

The end of time is most likely just an area where time is vacant, it doesn't move normally, which would explain why nothing gets older, Gasper never ages. it's probably just a stopped point in time.

You would not be able to move upon arrival. As soon as you arrived, you'd be frozen.

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Re: The end of time?
« Reply #32 on: May 04, 2007, 01:58:21 am »
Exactly. Hence, the very fact that time passes there and is measureable, as we can see from the changing reactions by Gaspar, Spekkio, and the Heroes of Time, proves that something else is going on. Personally, I favour the idea of the End of Time not truly being the End of all Time, but being an area outside of our normal flow of time, somewhat like the DBT. As such, we have a different flow of time within the End of Time, hence Time Error, which I am in full support of.

Either way, Time Error is real, as proven by the events of the game. While it might actually be referred to as something different, it's the name we've given it.

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Re: The end of time?
« Reply #33 on: November 16, 2008, 12:30:13 pm »
Time is an illusion, it's man made. it only exist as a marker for when things occur. yes it theoretically exist, but in the same sense it can't be seen, only the efects of time can be seen.

The second law of thermodynamics says that any spontaneous process in a system must always increase the system's entropy.  In other words, a system must always become increasingly disordered.  A consequence of this is that a series of events must go in a certain direction, and this is called the arrow of time.  A teacup can fall off the table and shatter, but a bunch of shattered teacup pieces will never spontaneously assemble into a teacup.  A human's perception of the second law is time flowing.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_of_time


As for the End of Time, here's an idea that fits well into the point of least resistance line.  Lagrangian points are points in space where the effects of gravity are at a local minimum.  There are several in the solar system and there are actually sever satellites at some of them.  So we could think of the End of Time as a temporal Lagrangian point.  Stuff just tends to collect there on its own and, for whatever arbitrary reason, four or more people entering a gate at the same time end up there as well.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_point