not trying to argue, but that is exactly what it means...lol

Not really. If you are playing football and the game hasn't finished, you are playing in the present. You will have also been playing it in the past and will be in the future too. If you are looking up to the stars, you are doing that in the present even though what you are seeing is an image of the past.

Everything happens now.

Defining now might be a very complicated matter. I am reading a book called "The end of time" that is quite mind blowing and about this subject.

The smallest increment of time has a name but it is only a representation of an idea.

One Planck time is the time it would take a photon travelling at the speed of light to cross a distance equal to one Planck length. Theoretically, this is the smallest time measurement that will ever be possible,[3] roughly 10−43 seconds. Within the framework of the laws of physics as we understand them today, for times less than one Planck time apart, we can neither measure nor detect any change. As of May 2010, the smallest time interval that was directly measured was on the order of 12 attoseconds (12 × 10−18 seconds),[4] about 1024 times larger than the Planck time.

(note that the -43 should be smaller so I posted the below because i don't know how to type the symbols.) U got that from wiki, and I have no idea what they mean. I'm not into math at all.

The Planck time is defined as:

basically, now is a representation of events that has already happened, because the time it takes light and sound to travel. we perceive it as now because it is what we know it to be, like a the 6 second delay they use on live TV now. while it is true that the football game is now , or live, the delay in our perception makes the delay from our senses. Like the live TV shows, they are live, yes, but the 6 second delay them not "now".

Yeh, that's why we are so retarded.

Not to the receiving species. In their now you would be sending them a message and very much alive...

now is present in the past.

anchored in this moment.

and yet exists also in the future.

The words you say ring true even though I don't understand them.

Past is a memory of a past perception and a perception of that memory... and so on.

Apart from neutrinos, allegedly.

I suspect that non-physical entities can operate quite freely outside the event horizon that the velocity of light imposes on physical entities.

Aye...

and yet...

now has changed.

now now is here.


therefore as your statement was true in that moment of now... So also this statement is true at this moment of now.

yet when you read it ...

Now will have changed for both of us.

you can take a picture of something that happens now. by the time you can look at the picture it's a depiction of something that happened in the past.

sure it does. even with the best response time when you see brake lights on the car in front of you and respond by hitting your brakes you responded to something that happened milliseconds ago in the past.

Aye... True...

However once you take that picture...

It becomes a part of your now.

Every time you look at it.

It moves from the past to the now...

for that moment of perception.

I believe, based on Hawkings theory ( the thing with the M's in it), psychologist have derived that now is the next three seconds. And now is all we have!

Now is difficult to locate but not impossible. You could describe it as infinity but that is not exactly true either.

This space-time environment actually does have a quantum unit of time.

In physics, the Planck time, (tP), is the unit of time in the system of natural units known as Planck units. It is the time required for light to travel, in a vacuum, a distance of 1 Planck length.[1] The unit is named after Max Planck, who was the first to propose it.

That is our own way that we measure the smallest unit of time, but it is still only in relation to human consciousness and our space-time and how light travels in our environment.

If we could remove our self from any space-time environment that measures time according to objects or light moving through space then time can only be measured in relation to our thought(s).

Time-stalling is a science fiction term but it has been known to happen to people who are in the process of a serious or deadly accident. They are removed from the scene and they experience thinking at a speed that is different from the space-time speed their body is normally thinking.

This happened to me so I know it is real.

You can have what seems to be ten minutes of thinking time in the span of a fraction of a second. Perhaps in a planct.

When you are in this state of consciousness, you are in a different space-time.

How can you have twenty minutes worth of thinking in a planct if you are not?

If time is "relative" I believe it is relative to the thinking center. (The observer)

Because of my own experience, I tend to believe that I am more than just a physical body. I exist in another dimension also, and that dimension has a different space-time.

Their argument is sound. Its physically impossible to live in the actual present. Yet we can live within a fraction of a second of the present, and that's enough.

very well said... by the time we say "now", it is in the past

Except that 'now' is a moving event...

anchored in the past... aye.

influencing the future... aye.

but it can not be measured... Its place in the atom of reality is a chaos of probabilities.

Now is not a moving event.

We are the ones who are moving.

Time does not move.

Now is eternal.

It encompasses all time.

The question "where are we?" refers to time.

"Where are we in time?"

-- is a question that asks about a particular position in space-time that has coordinates according to how matter moves and changes.

The question "when?" refers to events and their relationship to each other.

In doing time travel, you would have to pinpoint event coordinates. All events are connected.