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I’m still waiting for the killer app that comes from the notion that time is not fundamental. If there isn’t one, then this is all just parlor entertainment, not science.

That’s a fair challenge.  Physics doesn’t need a “killer app” before a concept is scientific. It needs explanatory power, consistency, and testable consequences. Back in 1905…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Do you see “now” as a real moving present sweeping along the line or a a point of access within a fixed structure.

I understand it to mean “now” is local to you. But that doesn’t mean it moves. It just means your current brain state only has access to one region of your worldline. “Now” is real as perspective b…

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Fellow Unbelievers:

Here’s a reminder that “The Good Old Days Weren’t Always Good”:

Right Chemistry: America’s healthier past is no more than a myth
There was no era in which Americans were healthier than now, except in a romanticized imagination.

By Joe Schwarcz • Special to Montreal Gazette
Published Feb 06, 2026
Last updated Feb 06, 2…[Read more]

Reg:

I’m still waiting for the killer app that comes from the notion that time is not fundamental. If there isn’t one, then this is all just parlor entertainment, not science.

And there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.

“Now is where I am now, in my timeline.”

Great…that is compatible with relativity. There is a subtle distinction to be made. Do you think “now” is a physical feature of reality….or is it a local perspective feature made by an observer within reality?

Yes, “now” is always local to an observer. You are local to “here” in your “now”. That is how…[Read more]

DHS demanding identity details from social networks of users who criticize ICE, Trump, et al.

Short:

TheEncogitationer wrote:
In all fairness, any prediction could be considered true if the prognosticator talks nebulously enough, moves the goalposts, and, above all, talks a lot. Astrologers, psychics, and self-proclaimed “prophets” do it all the time.

They could, and they do, but this was different.  She went around telling people their futu…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
“Now” is not a universal property spread across space. The universe doesn’t care where the time zone line is drawn. Only humans do. Our segmentation of our experience of time flow is just a convention. The feeling that clock time reflects a moving reality is mistaken.

OK, true, the clock isn’t evidence of anyth…[Read more]

Jake:

Mother fucking Christ killing Zionist White colonial settler apartheid genociding guilt spreading emetic peripatetic homeless zioned clowned round mound lacking standing to be disbanding outperforming and chosen like Moses who opposes the Philistines and faerie queens & goddamn Lezbrews and zionist Jews guilt by association in a craven…

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Simon:

I used to know someone, a lowly speed freak from a council estate, who could tell people’s future. She could read a short distance into the future, and while we were all out that night, she told me about the drama that was unfolding at my home. When I got home, her story was true. She didn’t know where I lived, didn’t know any of the p…

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Mother fucking Christ killing Zionist White colonial settler apartheid genociding guilt spreading emetic peripatetic homeless zioned clowned round mound lacking standing to be disbanding outperforming and chosen like Moses who opposes the Philistines and faerie queens & goddamn Lezbrews and zionist Jews guilt by association in a craven nation…[Read more]