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When does the future begin?
Submitted 8 months ago by Albin7326@suppo.fi to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Mbourgon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“When will it be ‘then’?”
“Soon”
loopy@lemmy.world 8 months 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 8 months ago
It does not begin.
It moves ahead of your perceptions.
A_A@lemmy.ca 8 months 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 8 months ago
The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.
The Economist, December 4, 2003, William Gibson
dudinax@programming.dev 8 months ago
Calculus is just starting to become general knowledge.
algorithmae@lemmy.one 8 months ago
In one second or less
A_A@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Anthropologically speaking this is the best answer. Our brain needs a certain span of time to establish perceived reality.
Granixo@feddit.cl 8 months ago
PassTheChicken@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Now. No wait, now. Nope, now.
corroded@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Now plus the amount of time it takes a photon to move the Planck length.
Gork@lemm.ee 8 months ago
t = t + 5.391247 × 10^-44 seconds
corroded@lemmy.world 8 months ago
long double future_time = static_cast(time(nullptr)) + (5.391247L * pow(10.0L, -44.0L))
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 months ago
The future is now, old man!
No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world 8 months 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 8 months ago
Oh it’s already started. We just didn’t get the good one.
UnicornKitty@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What if we actually did? Scary.
banana_meccanica@feddit.it 8 months 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 8 months ago
Later
GladiusB@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Do I have time to grab a beer?
PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Always, buddy. Grab a cold one for me too. Cheers.
Devious_Thoughts@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months 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 8 months 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 8 months 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 8 months ago
Wow, that’s some impressive writing :)
FrancisFeliz@lemmy.world 8 months 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 8 months 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 8 months 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 8 months 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 8 months ago
That happened yesterday weren’t you at the meeting?
folkrav@lemmy.world 8 months 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 8 months ago
In about 20 minutes
Eso@lemmy.world 8 months 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 8 months ago
At the beep.
Snowman44@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The future was October 21st 2015.
rtxn@lemmy.world 8 months ago
TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 8 months 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 8 months ago
When you decide
jbrains@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Always.
fbmac@lemmy.fbmac.net 8 months 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 8 months 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 8 months ago
The future is now, old man
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 8 months ago
I don’t have my hoverboard yet. It can’t be the future.
snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Abucketofpuppies@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I quote this way too often around my dad. I think it’s actually starting to upset him