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06 Jun 2009, 5:05 pm

Does time actually exist or was it just invented by humans to record change?



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06 Jun 2009, 5:18 pm

I hope it exists, because I find it really interesting and incomprehensible all at once. Time illudes me; plays tricks on me, and I constantly find myself chasing it. Seconds and minutes stretching into years and millennia as the earth spins and rotates around the sun. I am fascinated by the fact time moves at different speeds in other parts of the universe.



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06 Jun 2009, 5:38 pm

doesnt exist.

energy moves. thats it. call it time. call it "energy moves"

i call it alfred.

seriously.

"whats the alfred?"


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06 Jun 2009, 5:40 pm

I never know what the alfred is...



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06 Jun 2009, 6:04 pm

I think time exists. It is the medium through which change flows (and I guess space is the medium in which this change occurs), and without it consciousness would be impossible, as your thoughts could not change, or be noticed. And afaik time moves at a different rate when an area of space is subjected to intense gravity, so someone could hypothetically see an object moving towards a black hole slowing down as it approached it's centre of gravity. If you can see it, it must be real ;)


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06 Jun 2009, 6:04 pm

all time is now.



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06 Jun 2009, 6:14 pm

according to Relativistc theory, it exists independent of humanity (whatever Bishop Berkeley says...;)

It's how we perceive time that is unusual...



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06 Jun 2009, 6:53 pm

Quote:
It's how we perceive time that is unusual...


What do you mean by that??



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06 Jun 2009, 7:09 pm

Time is just a measurement from one point in a day to the next. A way of predicting when the weather will change (summer/winter) so we know how much time we have to prepare.

It's just another measurement like inches, centimetres. It's there so everyone knows exactly how long you mean.

It's just an invention



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06 Jun 2009, 7:32 pm

Keith wrote:
Time is just a measurement...
How does one measure what does not exist?

Keith wrote:
It's just another measurement like inches, centimetres.
These measure space. Are you saying space also does not exist?

Time and Space are the construct which everything occurs.



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06 Jun 2009, 7:46 pm

ZEGH8578 wrote:
i call it alfred.

I call it Einstein, for some reason.


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06 Jun 2009, 8:02 pm

Time is a human invention to observe the changes in the universe. That being said, it is a fundamental part of the universe and as far as we know it is so easy to create, it might as well be a constant in the universe.



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06 Jun 2009, 8:09 pm

Fayed wrote:
...and as far as we know it is so easy to create, it might as well be a constant in the universe.
Echo of Ryan: What do you mean by that?



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06 Jun 2009, 9:59 pm

i mean it seems so intrinsic to the nature of the universe, that we aren't the only ones who have realized it. Animals seem to have some small concept of it ( ie, i eat now, i go play later, and then i sleep when the big bright thing is gone, then i -- SQUIRREL!! !! !! -- wake up and do it again). So while its not actually a fundamental part of the universe ( like mass, gravity, and matter) it is so intrinsic to existence that even lower lifeforms realize it.



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06 Jun 2009, 10:06 pm

Fayed wrote:
i mean it seems so intrinsic to the nature of the universe, that we aren't the only ones who have realized it. Animals seem to have some small concept of it ( ie, i eat now, i go play later, and then i sleep when the big bright thing is gone, then i -- SQUIRREL!! !! !! -- wake up and do it again). So while its not actually a fundamental part of the universe ( like mass, gravity, and matter) it is so intrinsic to existence that even lower lifeforms realize it.
Oh. ok. You threw me off with the words 'easy to create'...which I am still not sure what that means. So then are you saing your answer is 'both'?



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06 Jun 2009, 11:22 pm

Time is the 4th dimension. Without time, no action would have an impact on the future.