[quote author=LumpyGravy link=board=faq;num=1049568856;start=30#31 date=05/24/03 at 12:48:57]Ok, this topic might be a good place for this. <br>Are you Zappa-freaks familiar with Zappa's thoughts on the subject of "time"?<br>Well, in the Zappa! Magazine (from 1992, publ. by Guitar Player), he said this:<br><br>
FZ: "I think that everything is happening all the time, and the only reason we think of time linearly is because we are conditioned to do it. That's because the human idea of stuff is: it has a beginning and it has an end. I don't think that's necessarily true. You think of time as a constant, a spherical constant... [in which]... everything's happening all the time, always did, always will...<br>We're dealing with time in a quasi-practical manner. We have devised our own personal universe and lifestyle that is ruled by time sliced this way, and we progress from notch to notch, day by day, and you just learn to meet your deadlines that way. That's only for human convenience. That, to me, is not a good explanation of how things really work. That's only the human perception version of how things work. It seems just as feasible to me that everything is happening all the time. And whether you believe your coffee cup is full or not is irrelevant... What something is depends more on
when it is than anything else. You can't define something accurately until you understand
when it is. [...] When is
what. Without the perfect understanding of
when, you've got nothing to deal with, see? 'Cause you analyze that cup of coffee a little bit earlier, and it's full. In a few minutes, you'll kick it over, and it won't even exist anymore. The state of the cup is determined by when you're perceiving it. [...]<br>And the reason why I feel so strongly about this is, you know, this is one of the better explanations for why people can have premonitions, because instead of looking ahead, they're just looking around. You don't have to look ahead to see the future. You can look over there."<br><br><br>Pretty cool stuff, huh?
Now, I was wondering if there is anyone out there, who is more familiar with this theory than I am. I find it very interesting, and I would like to know more about it. Any suggestions on books that deal with this? Maybe reading some Stephen Hawking would be a good start?[/quote]Yeah, I remember that interview. It reminded me of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five. Same idea about time. <br>
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<br><br>Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving <br>And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour, <br>That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned, <br>A sun that is the source of all our power. <br>The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see <br>Are moving at a million miles a day <br>In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour, <br>Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'. <br>Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars. <br>It's a hundred thousand light years side to side. <br>It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick, <br>But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide. <br>We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point. <br>We go 'round every two hundred million years, <br>And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions <br>In this amazing and expanding universe. <br><br>The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding <br>In all of the directions it can whizz <br>As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know, <br>Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is. <br>So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure, <br>How amazingly unlikely is your birth, <br>And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space, <br>'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
