Fixed, thanks.
Time isn't what you think it is...it doesn't really exist, it's just an artifact of our limited perception. The truth is that everything is eternal, and our perception of past and future as distinct things is a limit of our own minds." He paused for a moment and then started over. "A person exists apart from time. They are whole things, spanning four dimensions and stretching into the future and the past.
Anyone able to explain or link a resource that explains what this all means? Assuming this worldview exists in real life
It's saying that an object is not just the thing that we see in three-dimensional space in front of us, it's actually the entire worldline of that object -- all the points in time and space that it has ever occupied or will ever occupy. It is an object that exists at certain points of time regardless of whether the observer is at those points, the same way that the Washington Monument exists at certain points of
space regardless of whether the observer is at those points.
An analogy:
Imagine you live in Flatland, a two-dimensional space. You see a circle. Someone tells you that the circle is just an artifact of your perception, that the circle is actually extends 'up' and 'down', and that the circle is really just a cross-section of a higher-dimensional object.
Now imagine you live in the real world. You see a person (or a rock, or a tree, or a raindrop, or...). Someone tells you that the
circle person is just an artifact of your perception, that the
circle person actually extends
'up' and 'down' 'past' and 'future' and that the person is really just a cross-section of a higher-dimensional object.
Another analogy:
The guy in the photo is holding something in his hand (a sparkler) and waving it around on a long-exposure photo image that causes it to show up at every point that it occupied along its trajectory. That's a method of showing the fourth dimension in a way that we can see it -- what looks like a spatial effect (a line made out of light) is actually a temporal effect (an object moving and its light being recorded at each point along the way). What we see as the sparkler in his hand is one spacetime instant of the wordline of that object. There was a point in time at which the sparkler was on fire, and a point when it was not, but the object is still the same.
anyone know what the lie was?
Kagome is suggesting that Jiraiya didn't
really tame and ride a giant chakra monster and didn't
really seduce a widow and her daughter, etc. That the journal entry is basically just Jiraiya writing self-insert fanfiction of his own life.
@eaglejarl, you're breaking my heart!
Eeeexcellent. *evil finger-steeplage of evil*
