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What is a time period but simply the result of various events occuring before, leading to discoveries in open-minded search for knowledge and wisdom, or to artificially imposed limitations on thought as in several religions, or to reversal to a plain beastly way of life?
Unless you can find some reason for why time-periods are truly tied to time instead of different choices - absolutely, different choices at the same time will lead to a different peroid at the same time.
Yeah so if electricity had been discovered far later in an alternate universe than in our reality, then they'd be in a different time period altogether?
Maybe, maybe not.
"Time periods" are an artificial concept to begin with, a simplification more than a fact, so it all depends on how those periods are defined.
You can observe it right here in this world all the time, in fact - For example, Europe in what is commonly called the "Renaissance" had a different time-period than Africa at the same time.
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[–] tecuani 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
What is a time period but simply the result of various events occuring before, leading to discoveries in open-minded search for knowledge and wisdom, or to artificially imposed limitations on thought as in several religions, or to reversal to a plain beastly way of life?
Unless you can find some reason for why time-periods are truly tied to time instead of different choices - absolutely, different choices at the same time will lead to a different peroid at the same time.
[–] 8Ball [S] ago
Yeah so if electricity had been discovered far later in an alternate universe than in our reality, then they'd be in a different time period altogether?
[–] tecuani ago
Maybe, maybe not. "Time periods" are an artificial concept to begin with, a simplification more than a fact, so it all depends on how those periods are defined.
You can observe it right here in this world all the time, in fact - For example, Europe in what is commonly called the "Renaissance" had a different time-period than Africa at the same time.