{"id":210,"date":"2005-05-27T19:45:05","date_gmt":"2005-05-28T02:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=210"},"modified":"2019-01-09T21:15:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T21:15:02","slug":"what-the-hell-am-i-looking-at-when-will-then-be-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/27\/what-the-hell-am-i-looking-at-when-will-then-be-now\/","title":{"rendered":"What The Hell Am I Looking At? When Will Then Be Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The answer is “maybe never.” One my favorite movie quotes all time is from Spaceballs<\/a> – its the classic “We’re looking at now, sir. Everthing that happens now is happening now…” quote (I’ve included the entire quote after the jump). However, a young astrophysicist named Peter Lynds<\/a> has forumlated a theory which states that “time” is merely an illusion, that time has no divisible unit and therefore there is no “now,” only sequences of events. I know what you are thinking – “Whoa.” I’ll give you a second to process that.<\/p>\n

He came up with this idea after watching IQ<\/a> back home in New Zealand – I shit you not. After the movie, he couldn’t shake the idea that if Zeno’s paradoxes<\/a> are true, then there is no such thing as a discrete slice of time. So, he began working on a paper stating as such and eventually it was published to widespread notoriety.<\/p>\n

His theory threatens to turn the entire physics universe on its head and here’s the best part: he’ a 30 year old college dropout living in a hillside flat described by a Wired reporter as a “cross betwen a tree house and a Hobbit hole.” In fact, the entire Wired article about Peter Lynds<\/a> is a fascinating read and I heartily suggest you read it.<\/p>\n

As promised, one of my favorite quotes of all-time:<\/p>\n

Dark Helmet: What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie?<\/p>\n

Colonel Sandurz: Now. You’re looking at now, sir. Everything that happens now is happening now.<\/p>\n

Dark Helmet: What hapened to then?<\/p>\n

Colonel Sandurz: We passed then.<\/p>\n

Dark Helmet: When?<\/p>\n

Colonel Sandurz: Just now. We’re at now now.<\/p>\n

Dark Helmet: Go back to then.<\/p>\n

Colonel Sandurz: When?<\/p>\n

Dark Helmet: Now!<\/p>\n

Colonel Sandurz: Now?<\/p>\n

Dark Helmet: Now!<\/p>\n

Colonel Sandurz: I can’t.<\/p>\n

Dark Helmet: Why?<\/p>\n

Colonel Sandurz: We missed it.<\/p>\n

Dark Helmet: When?<\/p>\n

Colonel Sandurz: Just now.<\/p>\n

Dark Helmet: When will then be now?<\/p>\n

Colonel Sandurz: Soon.<\/p>\n

Dark Helmet: How soon?<\/p>\n

Private: Sir.<\/p>\n

Dark Helmet: What?<\/p>\n

Private: We’ve identified there location.<\/p>\n

Dark Helmet: Where?<\/p>\n

Private: It’s the moon of Vega.<\/p>\n

Colonel Sandurz: Good work. Set a course and prepare for our arrival.<\/p>\n

Dark Helmet: When?<\/p>\n

Private: 1900 hours.<\/p>\n

Colonel Sandurz: By high noon tomorrow they will be our prisoners.<\/p>\n

Dark Helmet: WHO!?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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