TIME FLIES LIKE AN ARROW

FRUIT FLIES LIKE BANANAS

You decide.

Alla time it curve back to WIKI.

Look up spacetime topology.

Guest,

Time IS exactly like a curve! Let me explain:

Imagine time as a curved road. Now imagine you're traveling down that road. Let's say you're in a car. A nice car. If you want, you can think of the very start of the curve as the exact moment in time at which you were born.

It's been raining hard for the last few minutes. It's very late at night. You're tired. You've just lost your job. You've been drinking. You know your spouse is going to yell at you when you get home. Your kids are screaming brats. You're driving too fast. You hit the brakes to slow down and the car goes into a skid!! There's an oncoming truck in the other lane!! It honks at you, but it's too late!!!! You hit it dead-on and die instantly.

So yes, in that way time is like a curve.

I haven't checked it out yet, but I think time is both linear and curved. It's either like a wheel rolling over a flat surface, or like the starter cord on a lawnmower - you pull it straight, but it spins the motor.

Fun analogies! Cats likes analogies...
But I think it pulls us, rather than us pulling it .

Del

If you're using an analog wristwatch, time is a curve and you see time as relative to the nearest hour (e.g. 13 minutes after the hour).

If you're using a digital wristwatch, telling time becomes exact but you lose all relativity (It's only 6:45pm...it's 15 minutes to 7?! OMG! We're going to be late!).

Consider using my high-fashion sundial, one without any numerals. I use polished hickory, 1.25 m high, placed at 40°, 25', 49" N latitude. When I see the shadow, it's time to go outside; when I don't, it's time to go in.

So time in your case must be binary!

Boy, that would simplify digital watches. In fact, I could just carry my pocket watch on a thong and I'd never have to open it. Just dangle it in the air and look for the shadow. Ha! The long-awaited pocket sundial. And they say America's technological ingenuity has lost it's luster.

is the curve you have in mind symmetric?

milo