does time exist, or did we just make it up?
Posted by Peter Owen | Filed under science
This article, though a little long, is very interesting. It questions the validity of time. Does time actually exist or is it something we made up to measure our perception? This seems straightforward. Logically, to me, it seems that we made up time to measure our perception of something. It is bizarre that time passes more slowly for those moving faster. Let’s take an example: You are in a spaceship approaching the speed of light and spend 1 light year going somewhere and 1 light year coming back. People on the earth have aged much more than you. Now keeping that example in mind, consider this: We (and by we, I mean earth and our universe) is traveling away from something (perhaps due to the big bang) at a certain rate. Therefore if this theory holds true, the origin of the big bang must be where actual time is accurate, but since we’re moving at some really fast rate away from it, we’re aging (and time is passing) more slowly for us than at the point of the big bang. Make sense? It’s very interesting to think about. I hope your brain doesn’t explode.
Physicists have long struggled to understand what time really is. In fact, they are not even sure it exists at all. In their quest for deeper theories of the universe, some researchers increasingly suspect that time is not a fundamental feature of nature, but rather an artefact of our perception. One group has recently found a way to do quantum physics without invoking time, which could help pave a path to a time-free “theory of everything”. If correct, the approach suggests that time really is an illusion, and that we may need to rethink how the universe at large works…
…In the past year, he and his colleagues have worked out a method to compress multiple quantum events in time into a single event that can be described without reference to time Physical Review D, vol 75, p 084033.
via Is time an illusion? – physics-math – 19 January 2008 – New Scientist.
Tags: quantum physics, science, time
Music Time Line
Posted by Peter Owen | Filed under music
This is my music time line from several years ago until now. Over time, I made several indie mixes and I will post them below (also the playlists are below the file listings). Enjoy music.
Indie CD 1
Indie CD 2
Indie CD 3
Wedding Playlist
Indie CD 1 Playlist
1. Antennas – Adapt
2. Junip – Black Refuge
3. Eskimo Foe – The Lie
4. Matt Costa – Cold December
5. The Helio Sequence – Blood Bleeds
6. King Seven – Simple Folk
7. Chimp Beams – Melina
8. Electric President – Insomnia
9. Page France – Chariot
10. If Bears Were Bees – Anxious Jenny
11. Amy Millan – Skinny Boy
12. Letting Up Despite Great Faults – I Hear You Drowning But I’m Tied
13. Phoenix – Long Distance Call
14. Sukpatch – We Fold at the Fork
15. The Essex Green – Don’t Know Why (You Stay)
16. My Orchard – A List of Things
17. Digitata – Death and the Beach
18. Victor Scott – Gotta Go
19. Josh Pyke – Middle of the Hill
20. Architecture in Helsinki – Do the Whirlwind (Metronomy Remix)
Indie CD 2 Playlist
1. Apes & Androids – Radio
2. The Seedy Seeds – Earned Average Dance America
3. The Little Ones – Lovers Who Uncover
4. Black Moth Super Rainbow + The Octopus Project – Elq Milq
5. Gabriel Rios – Broad Daylight
6. Cassettes Won’t Listen – Strawberries (Asobi Seksu Remix)
7. Ingrid Michaelson – Breakable
8. The Spinto Band – Oh Mandy
9. Light FM – Never Gonna Get Up
10. M. Ward – To Go Home (Daniel Johnston Cover)
11. Beulah – Sunday Under Glass
12. Over the Atlantic – 35 Black and White
13. Thieves Like Us – Drugs in my Body
14. Teddybears – Punkrocker (Feat. Iggy Pop)
15. Cansei de ser Sexy – Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death From Above
16. I was a Cub Scout – Pink Squares
17. PlayRadioPlay! – At This Particular Moment in Time
18. Bitter Tea for Breakfast – Fine, I Admit it
19. Ohm – Spoon Me (Jimmy O Remix)
20. Reverie Sound Revue – It’s All the Same
21. The Early Years – All Ones & Zeros
Indie CD 3 Playlist
1. Philippians – 100 Knives (Feat. Mirah)
2. Ben Benjamin – Temporary Aztec
3. El Ten Eleven – Living on Credit Blues
4. Esau Mwamwaya – Tengazako
5. Headlights – Put Us Back Together Right
6. Hello Stranger – Her in These Lights
7. Honey Claws – Villains
8. El Ten Eleven – My Only Swerving
9. Lee Scratch Perry – Pum Pum
10. Lykke Li – Little Bit
11. Chromeo – Whitey vs Chromeo Fly Whitey Mix
12. Mexican Institute of Sounds – El Microfono
13. Poq – Disco
14. Shout Out Out Out Out – Forever Indebted
15. Small Sails – Backside of a Magnet
16. Spitzer – Disco Biscuits
17. The Tough Alliance – A New Chance
18. These United States – First Sight
19. Transistor Sound & Lighting Co – Prince Vince
20. Willy Mason – Save Myself
Wedding Playlist
1. Frank Sinatra – Fly me to the Moon
2. Louis Armstrong – A Kiss to Build a Dream on
3. Frank Sinatra – I’ve got the World on a String
4. Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – Cheek to Cheek
5. Frank Sinatra – They Can’t Take that Away From me
6. Frank Sinatra – Young at Heart
7. Sergio Mendes – Berimbau Consolacao
8. Michael Buble – Call me Irresponsible
9. Louis Armstrong – Gone Fishin’
10. Frank Sinatra – You Make me Feel so Young
11. Sergio Mendes – Lamento (No Morrow)
12. Michael Buble – It had Better be Tonight
13. Sergio Mendes – Samba da Bencao
14. Sergio Mendes – Mas Que Nada
15. Michael Buble – The Best is yet to Come
16. Frank Sinatra – I’ve got you Under my Skin
17. Michael Buble – Wonderful Tonight
18. Sergio Mendez – Yes Yes Ya’ll
19. Michael Buble – Everything
20. Michael Buble -Always on my Mind
21. Frank Sinatra – The Birth of the Blues
22. Louis Armstrong – Skokiaan
23. Michael Buble – I’ve got the World on a String
24. Sergio Mendes – The Frog
25. Brazilian Girls – Homme
26. Louis Armstrong – The Dummy Song
27. Sergio Mendes – Bananeira
28. Frank Sinatra – Witchcraft
29. Michael Buble – Dream
30. Brazilian Girls – Sirenes de la Fete
31. Santana – Black Magic Woman
32. Louis Armstrong – What a Wonderful World
