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The Never Now paradox

You can never know what is happening now
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Because it takes time for now to reach you.

So effectively now is always in the past.

pashute, Aug 31 2026





       Maybe just call it the reality sensation lag,   

       Everything you sense is out of alignment too, takes 8 to 10 milliseconds for a eardrum vibration signal to get to your brain, then it takes time to calculate what it is.   

       Neural latency perception delay? Eh, "never now" paradox is good. [+]
doctorremulac3, Aug 31 2026
  

       Not an invention, it's been happening to all of us all our lives.
normzone, Aug 31 2026
  

       I think it's for the title no? But yea, if it's for the name should probably specify that.
doctorremulac3, Aug 31 2026
  

       When will then be now?   

         

         

         

       Soon!
21 Quest, Aug 31 2026
  

       News flash! Newtonian physics has NOW been superseded by relativity and quantum mechanics ... in a hundred-years-late sense of "now".
pertinax, Aug 31 2026
  

       The Big Bang is often presented as the universe appearing from a dimensionless point. There are all sorts of mathematical and thermodynamic singularity problems with actually getting to a dimensionless point. It may be that the actual origin is fuzzy at the Dirac limit.
Richard K, Sep 01 2026
  

       Ylem.
minoradjustments, Sep 01 2026
  
         


 

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