{"id":5576,"date":"2017-04-03T04:03:10","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T04:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=5576"},"modified":"2023-04-24T23:06:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T23:06:03","slug":"the-shape-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/the-shape-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The shape of time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I&#8217;d posted about this before, but I&#8217;ve always been intrigued by the idea of the [&#8220;B-Theory&#8221; of time](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/B-theory_of_time), and [world lines](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_line), and the possibility of our actions in the present forming something visible outside of time. So here&#8217;s a post that includes all those words that I can add to when I find new stuff.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Growing_block_universe\">The Growing Block universe&nbsp;<\/a>is another formulation: &#8220;The present is an objective property, to be compared with a moving spotlight. By the passage of time more of the world comes into being; therefore, the block universe is said to be growing. The growth of the block is supposed to happen in the present, a very thin slice of spacetime, where more of spacetime is continually coming into being.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/y4oxAV2jPR8eCO6AA73wHCfy7506ioeWh8BeOHul3dWvGjihG2AvlqvAf_z_STnIcwqonvSSK-kE69WOti2fbHLM9NXK8sd50UZXAJtpUzO4nkbHRlorBKTSSgrrjcZ3IlgOkQlqOqK_q45cwWKa-JWX9uV3xkH92aRjtASHQxM17HITydkV4JsEpUbF8Qdpw4qzXynGsKqEixcKSEvWmYuUUuLeUmuKfuNuiyoqC09FU29EUFZq9kmkKjQ-w1wmDXogGdY6aJ8tEFscRvdg4h8paObwIDcCXYmPyH4BoDZjevYcSSKcLJyeM9bfH5r3p4mkCMtRDp4ZGCLSoSZd_G7IxgXB46iM3YO-EYIbhAh8vJoMkVeSWJeg5dtPR-1hilJN7l4NB1NcDNzxajOq2lQlr-oZcMMAJ6RKSVa4TaHbBgd7X3U087rhC5bmmykl0jp_t52qHjo-BYXbRlGeu_uEnGYL0gaJ4z5Df7-re0CYBoqaz0BE388LMh9X80Ljj1Ug5Vv62f_1dJLgcCqsbDz7yl49CjWM5nP_rsCNJ8Asq3gEt-TC74-gGMEWqkBBvDHjrn4YliwHL8SOxtHM_6XUzc2CpJ17xivTELI1ka5A_JavUSSKFqXNh9XvoCxTV5e2Q4P3dbCPxQjI-P2f-d2iiLRKw674d_KulooOeWs=w2052-h1492-no\" style=\"width:100%;\">](<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/cartoons\/a20784)<br \/>\n&#8220;Pretty good. The ending was a bit predictable.&#8221;- [New Yorker](<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/cartoons\/a20784)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I&#8217;d posted about this before, but I&#8217;ve always been intrigued by the idea of the [&#8220;B-Theory&#8221; of time](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/B-theory_of_time), and [world lines](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_line), and the possibility of our actions in the present forming something visible outside of time. So here&#8217;s a post that includes all those words that I can add to when I find&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/the-shape-of-time\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,6,384],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-5576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-philosophy","category-world","tag-tagged"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-1rW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5576"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5587,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576\/revisions\/5587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}