When does the future begin?
Submitted 1 year ago by Albin7326@suppo.fi to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Mbourgon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“When will it be ‘then’?”
“Soon”
loopy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My God, I couldn’t remember what that scene that dialog was from. I finally found it and here you have it posted already. 😂 Golden scene
MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 1 year ago
It does not begin.
It moves ahead of your perceptions.
A_A@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
No physical mechanisms predefines future events (or is there one ?).
So, I could state that the future does not exist yet and the past as ceased to exist.
in that statement I have a problem with the definition of existence. Does the definition of existence exist itself ? This is (is it ?) more a problem of terminology than philosophy or physics.
MercuryGenisus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.The Economist, December 4, 2003, William Gibson
dudinax@programming.dev 1 year ago
Calculus is just starting to become general knowledge.
algorithmae@lemmy.one 1 year ago
In one second or less
A_A@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Anthropologically speaking this is the best answer. Our brain needs a certain span of time to establish perceived reality.
Granixo@feddit.cl 1 year ago
PassTheChicken@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Now. No wait, now. Nope, now.
corroded@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Now plus the amount of time it takes a photon to move the Planck length.
Gork@lemm.ee 1 year ago
t = t + 5.391247 × 10^-44 seconds
corroded@lemmy.world 1 year ago
long double future_time = static_cast(time(nullptr)) + (5.391247L * pow(10.0L, -44.0L))
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
The future is now, old man!
No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The future begins in the very next moment after the present.
It’s a constantly moving boundary, always just ahead of the current moment.
Philosophically or metaphorically, “the future” might be considered any time beyond the immediate present, whether that’s a second, an hour, a year, or a millennium from now.Etterra@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh it’s already started. We just didn’t get the good one.
UnicornKitty@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What if we actually did? Scary.
banana_meccanica@feddit.it 1 year ago
It is a human concept that does not exist in reality, the future could for the universe have the same value of the past, the great snake eating its tail
sandflavoured@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Later
GladiusB@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Do I have time to grab a beer?
PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Always, buddy. Grab a cold one for me too. Cheers.
Devious_Thoughts@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I feel like we’re in it lately with the: The lab grown meat, 3D printing building and drones, CRISPR technology, and even something as “basic” as our smartphones.
At this point the only thing that I’m waiting for is space travel 😎
thelsim@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Thank you for your answer! Nice to see something besides a literal interpretation of the question (Though to be fair, it was also the first thing that popped in my head :)
Anyway, I have to agree with you. A lot of things that seemed almost impossible or ridiculously far-fetched when I was little are now common place or close to becoming reality. And I’m not even that old! (forever in my early thirties *cough* *cough*)
FrancisFeliz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The future is only a false perception of tomorrow, an illusion. Today you might say that tomorrow would be the future, but when tomorrow comes, you will do the same. The future does not exist, since time is not S something static, is progressive.
Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 1 year ago
Wow, that’s some impressive writing :)
FrancisFeliz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Thanks. I’m not a native English speaker, but my mom was a literature teacher in Kansas, so consequently I had to learn the language (I’m Dominican).
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This reminds me of the sign on the wall of a bar: “Free beer tomorrow.”
The future never begins. Once it begins, it’s the present. And the present? Well it’s gone already, isn’t it? The past, on the other hand, is full to bursting with absolutely every fucking thing that’s ever been. Only problem? The last does not exist, and never will.
Basically, we are fucked.
nefonous@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Never. Not being started is its definition itself
Unless you make it relative to something else. Now is the future of before, and before was the future of a earlier before
Nemo@midwest.social 1 year ago
The future is in the future
And the past is a victory walk
Well I need to make you understand, girl
I’M A MAN NOT A DISCO BALL!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That happened yesterday weren’t you at the meeting?
folkrav@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well, technically, you never truly experience the present, as your brain processing whatever your senses are picking up is taking some time. So, from an individual standpoint, the future is always kind of already there, as you constantly react to things happening a couple microseconds late.
From a purely etymological point of view, the future is just any period of time that hasn’t happened yet.
kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
In about 20 minutes
Eso@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Colonel Sandurz: Try here. Stop. Dark Helmet: What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie? Colonel Sandurz: Now. You're looking at now, sir. Everything that happens now, is happening now. Dark Helmet: What happened to then? Colonel Sandurz: We passed then. Dark Helmet: When? Colonel Sandurz: Just now. We're at now now. Dark Helmet: Go back to then. Colonel Sandurz: When? Dark Helmet: Now. Colonel Sandurz: Now? Dark Helmet: Now. Colonel Sandurz: I can't. Dark Helmet: Why? Colonel Sandurz: We missed it. Dark Helmet: When? Colonel Sandurz: Just now. Dark Helmet: When will then be now? Colonel Sandurz: Soon. Dark Helmet: How soon?
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 1 year ago
At the beep.
Snowman44@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The future was October 21st 2015.
TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Well, it’s gonna be the future soon, and I won’t always be this way. When the things that make me weak and strange get engineered away
fury@lemmy.world 1 year ago
When you decide
jbrains@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Always.
fbmac@lemmy.fbmac.net 1 year ago
it began and end long ago, we are in the 3rd era of the after post modern post future
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The future is now, Theres no better time to get in line.
The future is here, Today, hey.
The future is now. Lets stand up and fight, we know its right.
Nothing will stand in our way!
solaryth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
The future is now, old man
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 1 year ago
I don’t have my hoverboard yet. It can’t be the future.
snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Abucketofpuppies@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I quote this way too often around my dad. I think it’s actually starting to upset him