Is 'now' just a matter of perspective?
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lone_groover
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Sat Jun 11, 2005 5:13 pm
Joined: 21 May 2005
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Is 'now' just a matter of perspective?
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I'm not 100% sure whether this is really a cosmological question, but here goes ..
If one views the Universe as 4-dimensional, with time as the 4th dimension of course, then doesn't it follow that it's a static thing, and that my sense of 'now' is really only a matter of perspective?
Intuitively, I have a sense that the past no longer exists, and that the future is not yet real .. the only reality is in the present moment. But isn't that rather like saying that France doesn't exist, because I can't see it from here?
Does the Universe really have a big temporal pointer? .. or is 'now' just my own point of view?
I hope this makes sense! 
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Arthur Dent
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Thu Sep 01, 2005 1:50 am
Joined: 26 Aug 2005
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Location: Ohio
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“Now” is as far as I know, purely just a matter of perspective.
Because we as humans are really only aware of the past.
As I sit here staring at my computer monitor writing this sentence, the light travels from the screen and in a relative view takes a very long time to get to my eyes, from there it takes another agonizing trip to my brain where more electrical impulses take more journeys all over my brain until it comes to some mathematical solution to what I am seeing.
Looking at things in such a perspective I have no REAL idea of what is happening “now” but I have a close idea.
In a matter of speaking the future does not exist either and cannot be proved to exist until it happens in which case it is no longer the future. Neither does the past exist, but the evidence of it happening does.
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