Does time really work that way?
Or does the universe really work that way? And if so, can you prove it?
Well, when you get right down to it, isn’t time just the thing that keeps everything from happening all at once?
Does that come any closer to defining time than saying ‘time is what a clock measures’?"
Wouldn’t you agree that it describes one important aspect of time? If not for time, wouldn’t the whole universe end before anyone realized that it had ever started?
How do we know, I mean really know, that it hasn’t already happened?
If the end of the universe has already happened, how are we left here to ponder whether or not it’s already happened?
Isn’t that just the kind of wacky question that theoretical physicists and academic philosophers struggle with?
So does a tree falling in the woods make a sound if no one is around to observe?
Of course, because in falling we all know that it’ll create sound waves which will move through the air even if no one’s there to actually hear them, right? Would now be the time for me to tell you that I’ve never understood why this is even a real question? Or am I maybe, y’know, just not having the proper attitude to a time-honored Zen koan?
Yeah, but doesn’t the absence of an observer matter? I mean aren’t physicists always nattering on about how the presence of an observer makes a difference in the location of an electron in its orbit?
Do we need to bring a physicist in here to start answering questions?
Isn’t it quite narcissistic to assume something doesn’t exist if we’re not there to observe it?
Don’t we need a psychiatrist to know if it is truly narcossissistic?
But isn’t this merely one definition of “sound”? Don’t we also need to consider the “sound” that exists within our brains, that’s a reaction to the falling tree, yet wouldn’t exist without an observer?
When did this thread turn into a science lesson?
Is it appearing increasingly likely to anyone else that a psychiatrist needs to weigh in on this thread?
Or maybe an audiologist?
Or maybe an astrologer?
Or a shrubber?