All that means is time doesn't move forward in WOT meaning there is no change
darius_sedai Send a noteboard - 17/03/2012 07:36:45 PM
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In the Wheel of Time there is focus on events occurring again and again throughout history. Is it just history which is circular, or is it time itself which is in a loop?
Robert Jordan
If you think of history being in a loop, then time must be in a loop. The Greeks were the first, as far as we know, to think of time being linear which allows for change. Almost every other culture prior to them had believed in circular time, if time is a wheel there is no possibility of change. Whatever I change now, whatever injustices I correct, the wheel will inevitably return, the inequities will return, there is no possibility for change, therefore there is not impetus to change. So time and history are in a loop in this world, a large enough loop...ah...it is really quite immense.
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So, the sun will never go nova, will never die?
Robert Jordan
In this universe, no.
In the Wheel of Time there is focus on events occurring again and again throughout history. Is it just history which is circular, or is it time itself which is in a loop?
Robert Jordan
If you think of history being in a loop, then time must be in a loop. The Greeks were the first, as far as we know, to think of time being linear which allows for change. Almost every other culture prior to them had believed in circular time, if time is a wheel there is no possibility of change. Whatever I change now, whatever injustices I correct, the wheel will inevitably return, the inequities will return, there is no possibility for change, therefore there is not impetus to change. So time and history are in a loop in this world, a large enough loop...ah...it is really quite immense.
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So, the sun will never go nova, will never die?
Robert Jordan
In this universe, no.
RJ's quote even points it out "The Greeks were the first, as far as we know, to think of time as being linear which allows for change."
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Cuendillar: All force directed against simply "makes it stronger" What? Bull.
- 14/02/2012 07:56:14 PM
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Yeah, an absolute is an absolute. *NM*
- 14/02/2012 08:00:56 PM
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Well not absolute... large doses of "evil" over an extended period of time makes it crumble *NM*
- 14/02/2012 09:51:30 PM
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Re: Cuendillar: All force directed against simply "makes it stronger" What? Bull.
- 17/02/2012 04:32:51 PM
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Simple answer to this is the conservation of energy.
- 23/02/2012 07:09:19 PM
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Well, all that energy of the eternally burning sun has to go somewhere 
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- 16/03/2012 11:21:36 PM
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*NM*
- 16/03/2012 11:21:36 PM
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I wonder what causes the sun to refuel though? *NM*
- 17/03/2012 01:42:55 AM
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Theoretically the Sun will burn out
- 17/03/2012 04:38:35 PM
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Not in WoT it won't.
- 17/03/2012 05:18:24 PM
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All that means is time doesn't move forward in WOT meaning there is no change
- 17/03/2012 07:36:45 PM
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How so?
- 18/03/2012 04:08:20 AM
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The link I attached discussed how our sun burns and it's estimated life time
- 18/03/2012 02:07:06 PM
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Yes, speaking of that link...
- 18/03/2012 05:59:31 PM
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Keep reading
- 18/03/2012 11:13:16 PM
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I don't get what you're trying to say.
- 19/03/2012 01:48:46 AM
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Doesn't matter ... As you said earlier it's an irrelevant point anyway.
- 19/03/2012 03:26:04 AM
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