@Background Pony #AE6B
As in he only exists in the 5th dimension?
Because 3-dimensional objects can be seen, although in a weird way, by hypothetical 2-dimensional beings.
If God was to remain outside of our ‘view’, there’d be an entire… For lack of a better term, ‘plane’ (it’s not entirely accurate, but it works) that he’d have to avoid.
He’d need to stay in the same ‘half’ of the 5th dimension, because if he tried to go to the other half he’d end up crossing through the ‘plane’ we can perceive.
@redweasel
I’d argue that ‘It is speculation that the past even exists, therefore you cannot look at it’ is a flawed statement.
Our knowledge of the past’s existence is not relevant to whether we can see it (though if we did see the past, we’d have evidence supporting its existence)
Even if we only had ‘speculation’ about the existence of, say, a white tea-kettle in the kitchen, nothing would stop us from going into the kitchen and looking for it.
If it exists, and exists in the way we expected, seeing a white tea-kettle, even though its existence was only speculative, would be fairly easy.
Not guaranteed, but easy nonetheless.
If the past does not exist, however, your statement still seems flawed.
You seem to assume that the future is created as if you were weaving thread into a pattern, or some equivalent metaphor, where it is not defined until the ‘present’ arrives upon it.
It is possible the entirety of time is made simultaneously - in fact, I would argue this is the simplest explanation, as a continuous creation would have problems with different objects traveling at different speeds through time.
In that context, ‘present’ is only a relevant term from a perspective within time.
From outside, it is merely different positions upon a fourth non-spatial dimension.
So you could view ‘the future’, as long as what you define as ‘the present’ is anything but the extreme ‘End of Time’ (since that is the only position with no defined ‘future’), and of course as long as you have a way to view something from outside Time; Photons do not seem to leave our known dimensions, so our method of sight would likely not work.
viewing our universe from the future to the past, you would be unable to look at neither the future, since it’s indeterminate, nor the past, since it’s pure speculation that the past even exists.
nor would you be able to look at the present moment, because in the present moment, the volume of our light cone is zero, making the entire universe in a state of quantum uncertainty, even its existence both inditerminate, and pure speculation.
@Background Pony #4988
Pizza is one of the few foods where you really can make it faster at a higher temperature. Which reminds me: TJPones, you gonna share your new pizza recipe on the blog?
“Oh Richard, who DIDN’T I kill? Besides you of course, booger. But other than you, I’ve killed all who get my attention. I’m basically Canada’s most notorious serial killer and greatest monster at this point.”
“… But did you write anything about goats and dragons in your victim’s blood?”
“NIGHTPAIN Richard, why must you keep bringing that up?”
Well, time and space are not the same, though.
Space is the first three dimensions, time is the fourth.
The rest of the points stand, it’s just that they are seperate from each other (but connected, like the upper and lower half of a rope; It’s not the same piece of rope, one being lower than the other and potentially of very different construction (it might even be frayed), but they’re still part of the same overall rope)
@Background Pony #4988
You know it’s weird how like, the atoms that make up your body really don’t know or care if you’re alive or dead. It’s just a construct we’ve created that has no tangible value.
@Background Pony #5B7F
“Is what we cook really a product of the ingredients we choose and what we do with them? If we see a piece of food but don’t taste it, does it really have a taste at all? What if some unknown being changed the taste of every piece of food after it was cooked?”
@Jerkface
Ummmmm, free shot, free shot. Ah! You are sentenced to stare at Bruno’s cute face for at least five minutes. Also three hail Celestia’s and two praise Luna’s and you’re good.
As in he only exists in the 5th dimension?
Because 3-dimensional objects can be seen, although in a weird way, by hypothetical 2-dimensional beings.
If God was to remain outside of our ‘view’, there’d be an entire… For lack of a better term, ‘plane’ (it’s not entirely accurate, but it works) that he’d have to avoid.
He’d need to stay in the same ‘half’ of the 5th dimension, because if he tried to go to the other half he’d end up crossing through the ‘plane’ we can perceive.
I’d argue that ‘It is speculation that the past even exists, therefore you cannot look at it’ is a flawed statement.
Our knowledge of the past’s existence is not relevant to whether we can see it (though if we did see the past, we’d have evidence supporting its existence)
Even if we only had ‘speculation’ about the existence of, say, a white tea-kettle in the kitchen, nothing would stop us from going into the kitchen and looking for it.
If it exists, and exists in the way we expected, seeing a white tea-kettle, even though its existence was only speculative, would be fairly easy.
Not guaranteed, but easy nonetheless.
If the past does not exist, however, your statement still seems flawed.
You seem to assume that the future is created as if you were weaving thread into a pattern, or some equivalent metaphor, where it is not defined until the ‘present’ arrives upon it.
It is possible the entirety of time is made simultaneously - in fact, I would argue this is the simplest explanation, as a continuous creation would have problems with different objects traveling at different speeds through time.
In that context, ‘present’ is only a relevant term from a perspective within time.
From outside, it is merely different positions upon a fourth non-spatial dimension.
So you could view ‘the future’, as long as what you define as ‘the present’ is anything but the extreme ‘End of Time’ (since that is the only position with no defined ‘future’), and of course as long as you have a way to view something from outside Time; Photons do not seem to leave our known dimensions, so our method of sight would likely not work.
HOLD HIS FEET OVER THE FIRE!!! MAKE HIM SQUEAL!!
nor would you be able to look at the present moment, because in the present moment, the volume of our light cone is zero, making the entire universe in a state of quantum uncertainty, even its existence both inditerminate, and pure speculation.
so basically, we don’t exist.
Burn it. Burn it all.
Pizza is one of the few foods where you really can make it faster at a higher temperature. Which reminds me: TJPones, you gonna share your new pizza recipe on the blog?
I don’t really eat Nutella anyway. But to take away the potatoes?
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“Oh Richard, who DIDN’T I kill? Besides you of course, booger. But other than you, I’ve killed all who get my attention. I’m basically Canada’s most notorious serial killer and greatest monster at this point.”
“… But did you write anything about goats and dragons in your victim’s blood?”
“NIGHTPAIN Richard, why must you keep bringing that up?”
Space is the first three dimensions, time is the fourth.
The rest of the points stand, it’s just that they are seperate from each other (but connected, like the upper and lower half of a rope; It’s not the same piece of rope, one being lower than the other and potentially of very different construction (it might even be frayed), but they’re still part of the same overall rope)
You know it’s weird how like, the atoms that make up your body really don’t know or care if you’re alive or dead. It’s just a construct we’ve created that has no tangible value.
“Oh my god who did you kill?”
“Is what we cook really a product of the ingredients we choose and what we do with them? If we see a piece of food but don’t taste it, does it really have a taste at all? What if some unknown being changed the taste of every piece of food after it was cooked?”
“Did you burn the pizza?”
A utopia without Nutella? ’Tis a false prophet who speaks of such a place! If that is the price of utopia, then it is too high.
I am now speaking from beyond the grave.
Really, I blame our justice system.
Oh, wait I didn’t mean that. I’m sorry you want to commit suicide over a Nutella kerfuffle.
Worse than death.
Means I no longer fear it.
Later.
Ummmmm, free shot, free shot. Ah! You are sentenced to stare at Bruno’s cute face for at least five minutes. Also three hail Celestia’s and two praise Luna’s and you’re good.
@Apricot Strudel
Nutella is oversweetened overrated garbage.
Feel free to crucify me.
Stop being a lazy drama queen and go buy some Nutella at the grocery store if you’re out.