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Live Poll: Do You Know What Time It Is?
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Since humans became organized societies, time has grown increasingly important. Appointments, holidays, traditions, and daily routines all depend on it. At the same time, science relies on time to understand how nature and the universe work. It’s no surprise that time appears so often in popular culture - from science-driven films like Oppenheimer (2023), to sci-fi classics like Back to the Future (1985), to music that asks what time even means. Time feels familiar to everyone. We all think we know what it is the moment the word comes up. Yet at its core, time is an abstract way we describe change. Which fact about time fascinates you the most? Please discuss here. For slideshow, please click here.
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RezaKJoi
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27 days ago
First I should say that I honestly didn’t know polls like this could even be made — that’s interesting.I recently read Time Travel by John and Mary Gribbin, and I have to admit that now I realize I really know nothing about time. After reading the book, the whole subject became even harder to grasp, so I might have voted for the last option
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mariojacobs
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27 days ago
The Turritopsis dohrnii, often called the "immortal jellyfish," can theoretically live forever by reversing its life cycle from a mature medusa back to a juvenile polyp stage when facing stress, starvation, or injury. Through a process called transdifferentiation, it regenerates cells to start life over, effectively cheating death.
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dan_dassow
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13 days ago
@Breumaster,
This is an intriguing poll.
I'm inclined to go with:
Time may not be fundamental - John Archibald Wheeler, a colleague of Albert Einstein at his time, suggested that time might not be a basic ingredient of the universe. Instead, time could emerge from deeper physical processes, shaped by matter, energy, and observation. In this view, time is not something that simply "flows", but something that arises from how the universe behaves and interacts. The Wheeler-Feynman absorber theory proposes that electromagnetic radiation involves both forward-in-time and backward-in-time interactions, and that radiation occurs only because the universe as a whole absorbs it.
FYI: John Archibald Wheeler originated the term black hole. He, Kip Thorne, and Charles Misner wrote and published the definitive 1200 page book "Gravitation". in 1973.
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Jessica
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13 days ago
Live Poll, congrats!
https://www.imdb.com/poll/DjpbaIF4M5DisZSVZTly1w/
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