she hid a few pieces from the puzzle I was doing at the time

True evil.

So I wouldn't use the word "gravity" lightly....

Heh.

I'm only at the very start, and am intrigued by the implication that the time dimension has something like gravity which pulls us in the one direction. Does that hold in actual science?

Nope. In fact the laws of physics tend to work the same forward and backward.

So I wouldn't use the word "gravity" lightly to describe such a force.

I just mean something akin to gravity, as we experience it right now. Pulling in one direction, something that must be fought against to go in a different direction.

I know the analogy falls apart, but I'd never stopped to wonder why does time just go forwards, and why so inexorably. Is there a lay-explanation for that?

The realisation that House is Holmesian has freed me from my urge to watch it, actually. I don't feel as encouraged to engage with Holmes, so I can read/watch/listen to those stories more easily than House, who really bothers me.

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In fact the laws of physics tend to work the same forward and backward.

Like gravity?

I know the analogy falls apart, but I'd never stopped to wonder why does time just go forwards, and why so inexorably.

That is still a big question in physics. I just read about this, but I can't remember the particulars of a theory about why time has an arrow.

I just read about this, but I can't remember the particulars of a theory about why time has an arrow.

I think there's entropy involved... somewhere....

Then there's the theory that time is an illusion, as everything in the entire history of the universe has already happened. Fun.

So, Canadians, should be some fun times tonight, huh? God damn, I wish we had the no-con in the US.

Whooo! Most people are predicting some form of minority government, so we could be doing this again next year.

I am home sick today. I didn't think it was possible to sleep as much as I have slept in the last 24 hours.

I think there's entropy involved... somewhere....

Yep, it's in there.

Then there's the theory that time is an illusion, as everything in the entire history of the universe has already happened. Fun.

Certainly the concept of absolute time is an illusion. Since time is a part of the universe you can't really speak of universe having already happened, it just is and we're at a particular coordinate that has a location in both space and time.

nsm relaxing as like a stay in Guantanamo

Heh. This is pretty much how I feel about knitting and crocheting and the like.

Since time is a part of the universe you can't really speak of universe having already happened, it just is and we're at a particular coordinate that has a location in both space and time.

Come again? Are you saying that the concept of something happening simultaneously (or an hour and a half apart) on opposite sides of the universe is bollocks?

I don't see how that jibes with the ability to posit a coordinate system with time as an axis.