Comments on: Time does not exist

By: Giovanni M.

Giovanni M. — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:55:32 +0000

Try to start the engine of your car with an empty tank and if it doesn’t work tell it you’ll fill it after. Let me know if this hint has been valid.
There are states of the systems that cannot be swapped without changing the final result.
One time you were born, in Jan 28, 2008 you wrote your opinion here, one day you’ll die. You cannot change your last state with the first. It has not sense in real world. (What we know now is that entropy always increases!).
When we talk about time we don’t know what we are talking about, but if we use a variable named “t” in some physical formula we see it works.
We can say the same thing when we talk about “energy”. You can find a very good explanation of this concept on “The Feynman Lectures on Physiscs”, chapter 4.

By: pointyman

pointyman — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:10:49 +0000

Time simply does not exist. We can’t see it, can’t smell it, can’t taste it, etc. Are there any machines that can measure it? Even the clock can’t really. With its time differences…

By: Giovanni M.

Giovanni M. — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:21:18 +0000

So does a dinosaur and its fossil occupy the same moment?
And (sorry for this) does you and your corpse occupy the same moment?
Why do we find fossils of the past and no one fossil of the future?

Time remains, at present “time”, a metaphysical matter.

By: Archie Bonkers

Archie Bonkers — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:47:11 +0000

If time were a dimension you wouldn’t constantly be stuck in the now. You could move forward or backward at different speeds. It’s never going to happen because time is not a dimension, only a yardstick. You are not moving through time, you are using “time” to measure activity in the timeless present. Now and the the big bang occupy the same moment.

If you can’t follow my arguments, drop acid.

By: Katie

Katie — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:00:10 +0000

I really love the subject of time, because it feels like such a cunundrum. I believe time is not real… it is just a made up measurement. This may seem like a good idea for working purposes originally, however, in this era it seems that people never have enough of if, can never meet deadlines, get to appointments or even organise time. So when did it get so complicated?

By: Giovanni M.

Giovanni M. — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:08:11 +0000

I suggest to see how Nature itself manages “time”. How Mother Nature behaves? Does “she” consider “time” as an existing entity?
If not, why does “she” let memory to evolve in living beings?

By: markk

markk — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:22:14 +0000

Time is a hard thing to understand all right, not to mention the notion that time is connected to space.

By: Giovanni M.

Giovanni M. — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:23:33 +0000

Try to define “time” and try to define “to exist” and you will find that an entity you are not able to define is not the subject of a verb you are not able to define.

We have an intuitive cognition of what we call “time” and we use operative methods to measure it.
Generally we make comparisons between periodic phenomena of different frequency. We have not any instrument able to “capture” this “substance”: the time.

Generally we give to the verb “to exist” the meaning of “to interact”.

May be our language and our semantics is not evolved enaugh.

“Sein und Zeit” has been written yet … by a philosopher and not by a physicist … fortunately.

By: markk

markk — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 05:57:34 +0000

Aha, but if time is an illusion, than … but how in the world would you test that?

By: Kersson

Kersson — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:14:46 +0000

What you are doing for the current second cannot be repeated anymore. Even if you repeat the same action for the next second, it will not be the same as the previous one, because you have accomplished the same action under different circumstances. If the same action cannot be reproduced in the future is because time exists.