In a Heeb Magazine exclusive, writer/director/(dare I add Ghostbuster) Harold Ramis responded to Wolf Gnards. Yes, that's right--this is not a typo--Harold Ramis responded to your friendly neighborhood Wolf Gnards. Of course, he responded to Heeb which got the link from Tony Hawk who followed the Bill Murray Digg parade, but in the roundest of ways Harold Ramis responded to the Gnards.
As you may or may not know, Digg picked up my article on the amount of time Bill Murray spent trapped in Groundhog Day. Which in turn caused a series of computers to explode with my hosting service. But if anything good came out of this, I can, at least, say I made Harold Ramis blink. Not just blink, but email. Take out his laptop, open up Outlook, and type a brief paragraph.
Harold Ramis emailed the Heeb offices with this message:
"I think the 10-year estimate is too short. It takes at least 10 years to get good at anything, and alloting for the down time and misguided years he spent, it had to be more like 30 or 40 years… People [like the blogger] have way too much time on their hands. They could be learning to play the piano or speak French or sculpt."
I 100% agree with him. When I thought of charting Groundhog Day, I thought it would come out to be 100+ years. It could take Phil any number of years to learn any of the things he mastered. Instead I had to work with the average, and I was surprised at how quickly his feats could be accomplished. 8 years, 8 months, and 16 days is more or less the minimum amount of time he needed.
What Ramis said in those ellipses the world may never know. It was probably something like, "That being said Wolf Gnards is as sexy as he is witty, a virtual playground of ungodly delights."
Now as to Heeb calling me a spaz and Ramis alluding to the fact that certain spazoids may need to get a life, let me remind everyone that they took the time to respond to a spaz. What's lower on the totem poll? The geek or the geek who feels the need to correct geeks?
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Which, come to think of it, is both of you. But he did it first.
The movie is being played on an endless loop on Encore today, in an inspired piece of marketing
aha!
I saw this movie just a few weeks ago, on February 2nd, of course. I loved it, one of my favorite movies.
I, myself, side with the myth of G day, the Clue is the "6 more weeks of winter" that comes with G day. this is 6 more weeks of winter times 7 days.
His Price, at the auction, was $339.88
there is to me another Clue here.
3 + 39 = 42.
Hidden in this all is the number of days Jesus spends on earth after crucifixion plus the "3" that he spends in hell preaching.
His "Second Coming" [accepting him as your personal Guide/savior, will "redo" your life "right"!]
Thus after his years of depression, suicides, he has some Spiritual Experience which then afterward accelerates his learning as he then has a Purpose.
freestone wilson
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Maria
In the film this violation of spacetime occurs, he moves out of the loop (symmetry-breaking and CPR violation) onto a world-line akin to our own linear, Cauchy spacetime. How does this happen? By learning some hard lessons about life, love, the universe, and everything in-between! The story is a wonderful modern parable, but not a scientific one nor based in any form of contemporary science, such as relativistic spacetime parameters (Tensor Calculus) or quantum relativity. Therefore, the ability to apply, linear mathematical modeling to the question, how long does he spend in Groundhog Day, is flawed, because we are applying linear-modeling and linear calculus to a non-linear problem. (Bill Murray, in fact, is in a Godelian-type closed universe. The passage of time is symmetrical and loops in on itself.) Perhaps, the solution or set of solutions requires the combination of non-linear mathematics coupled with an ontological temporal approach (Philosophy of Time), eg; Dummet's dancing chiefs and drums. Or whether time is symetrical and/or asymetrical. Check out the book Asymmetries in Time.
In the final anaylsis, it is best to enjoy this great comedy that is designed to warn us about our own private GroundHog day, that we all experience at least once in our own linear lifetime.
Murray is in a closed time-like Universe, with a 24-hour boundary condition. As the boundary is time-like and determined by the speed of light, therefore, Murray's GroundHog day Universe has a maximal boundary diameter of 2.592x10 to the power of 13 metres or 2.592x10 to the power of 10 kilometres. A
microcosm within a set of multiple universes.
The unique boundary conditions of this Godelian-type Universe that Murray's GroundHog Day manifests itself, requires two unique solutions to the problem of how long Murray spends in Groundhog Day.
Within the maximal symmetry of this universe, Bill Murray alone experiences a uniquely limited form of linearity: hence certain non-relativistic modeling can be applied to determine a linear outcome within the Godelian universe, and:
a second set of solutions need to be coupled to the linear outcome within the set of boundary conditions of this closed universe.
Finally, the ontological argument of the passage of time for Murray within this universe applies: to escape Groundhog Day Murray can either violate the time-like boundary conditions, ie; travel faster than light, or adopt some form of quantum tunneling that allows only Murray to move out of Groundhog day and back into our large scale spacetime manifold. Either way, Murray's Godelian universe is embedded in our exisiting spacetime continuum and this point needs to be taken into consideration, in order to answer the question completely.
Thank you to Wolf Gnards for giving me this opportunity to present my interpretation and Gedanken experiment to this magical 21st Century problem.