programming == quantum physics ?
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Ok, this is weird I know but I want to post it to see what your reactions are. I've always been a person who is really aware of time. I always think in terms of how much time is this going to take me? I guess because I enjoy my free time so much. Anyway, while writing an application do you ever think of yourself as enabling time travel? I mean, the applications we create as developers enable countless things to get done much quicker than some manual process. So haven't we invented/enabled time travel? Also, what about when we are debugging an application? Aren't we also slowing down time? When I debug something I always think of it that way...I'm slowing things down so I can take a detailed look before that moment passes by. Weird? So by developing applications, aren't we in a sense travelling through time? Weird right? :~
"Half this game is ninety percent mental." - Yogi Berra If you can read thank a teacher, if you can read in English, thank a Marine.
I have a vague memory of a study by Freidman (the psychiatrist not the economist) who claimed that many programmers achieved a trance like state when working, I suspect that is the nearest we can get to time travel. The study was conducted in the 60's or 70's - or perhaps it was the acid on which we were all alleged to be tripping. rgds pjd