You should read the book 'Hyperspace' by Professor Michio Kaku. He's a theoretical physicist from New York University. He gives you all the answers in there in commoners terms.
Summed up... Time is real. But we perceive it kind of unrealistically with our puny brains. There are theoretically dimensions 'above' ours where time may be something that can be moved around like we move an object, or observed all at once, not on a linear scale like we see it. We're just not able to observe or comprehend it this way from our limited vantage point.
He says we're only able to observe 4 dimensions. The three dimensions you're familiar with from geometry and then the dimension of time. It's a cool book. Check it out.
Time is used to quantify.In that aspect it is "real"
On the other hand everything has a beginning and an end, whether it be human life or a radioactive isotope. Whether the "time" between the start and finish is a billionth of a macrosecond or is "Measured" in an infinite amount of years it will eventually cease to exist in it's current form.
Time is the measure of yearly Day and Night cycles, nothing more. The reason time exists as it does is it's how we live our lives. Without time, I believe our system of Government would collapse. So, time exists merely because we believe it and or need it to exist...
**This is my own personal beliefe as I have not studied this.**
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Originally posted by killerTwinkie Time? Time is the measure of yearly Day and Night cycles, nothing more. The reason time exists as it does is it's how we live our lives. Without time, I believe our system of Government would collapse. So, time exists merely because we believe it and or need it to exist... **This is my own personal beliefe as I have not studied this.**
You share a few of my points too. Now, Time does relates to history, but "time" is a pretty wide topic.
Time exists, but not in the traditional sense. We quantify it the way we do because it makes the world function better. It was created the same way our standard three dimensions were at the beginning of the universe. The difference being it is not a 'whole' dimension, we can only travel one way through it.
On the quantum level, things can be in two places at the same time... but for anything larger than a grain of sand, this is impossible. So we could say that if time did not exist, the universe would be static and nothing would change. You might even say the universe would never have been created if time did not exist. I could not have begun typing this message, because I had to move through time to click the reply button.
Atoms don't age, but they do experience entropy, thus over time they will reduce to a simpler(inert) form. As the age of the universe reaches infinity (lim x --> infinity), all molecules will break down into single atoms, atoms will break down into their constituent subatomic particles, etc.
And I've lost my train of thought... /shrug
Edit: something to add now that I've gone back and read the thread.
There is no 'traveling faster the speed of light'. Quantum theory tells us that as you approach the speed of light (lim x --> C), the fabric of space compresses around you, making distances shorter than at non relativistic speeds. Once you reach C, space compresses into a single point, and you are everywhere at once. We can't see this when moving in our sluggish Earth orbit, but if we could take a ride on a photon, that is how things would look.
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Originally posted by VideoJockey There is no 'traveling faster the speed of light'. Quantum theory tells us that as you approach the speed of light (lim x --> C), the fabric of space compresses around you, making distances shorter than at non relativistic speeds. Once you reach C, space compresses into a single point, and you are everywhere at once. We can't see this when moving in our sluggish Earth orbit, but if we could take a ride on a photon, that is how things would look.
And you just proved why that theory is BS.
Because there aren't photons covering the whole Universe.
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by the way anyone here study psychology... cirdum cycles(I dont know how to spell)... its the bodys natuaraul clock... its at 24 hours 18 minutes aboout... so if you didnt have any time notifacations tyou would notice the body and mind works around those times.... but ours are "reset" every night to fit in to the 24 hour period.... also quatum physics cant really explain the EPR "problem" were photons are entalged and info travels at speed of light... either there are n-infite universe that are probablities collding with each other or there are thigns faster then light ... you can choose....
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How long did it take you to think up the question? if there is no such thing as time, then how long is a football match?
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You should read the book 'Hyperspace' by Professor Michio Kaku. He's a theoretical physicist from New York University. He gives you all the answers in there in commoners terms.
Summed up... Time is real. But we perceive it kind of unrealistically with our puny brains. There are theoretically dimensions 'above' ours where time may be something that can be moved around like we move an object, or observed all at once, not on a linear scale like we see it. We're just not able to observe or comprehend it this way from our limited vantage point.
He says we're only able to observe 4 dimensions. The three dimensions you're familiar with from geometry and then the dimension of time. It's a cool book. Check it out.
There is an interesting book on the possibility that time does not exist.
The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Physics (Paperback) by Julian Barbour
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Time is used to quantify.In that aspect it is "real"
On the other hand everything has a beginning and an end, whether it be human life or a radioactive isotope. Whether the "time" between the start and finish is a billionth of a macrosecond or is "Measured" in an infinite amount of years it will eventually cease to exist in it's current form.
Time?
Time is the measure of yearly Day and Night cycles, nothing more. The reason time exists as it does is it's how we live our lives. Without time, I believe our system of Government would collapse. So, time exists merely because we believe it and or need it to exist...
**This is my own personal beliefe as I have not studied this.**
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You share a few of my points too. Now, Time does relates to history, but "time" is a pretty wide topic.
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My take on time:
Time exists, but not in the traditional sense. We quantify it the way we do because it makes the world function better. It was created the same way our standard three dimensions were at the beginning of the universe. The difference being it is not a 'whole' dimension, we can only travel one way through it.
On the quantum level, things can be in two places at the same time... but for anything larger than a grain of sand, this is impossible. So we could say that if time did not exist, the universe would be static and nothing would change. You might even say the universe would never have been created if time did not exist. I could not have begun typing this message, because I had to move through time to click the reply button.
Atoms don't age, but they do experience entropy, thus over time they will reduce to a simpler(inert) form. As the age of the universe reaches infinity (lim x --> infinity), all molecules will break down into single atoms, atoms will break down into their constituent subatomic particles, etc.
And I've lost my train of thought... /shrug
Edit: something to add now that I've gone back and read the thread.
There is no 'traveling faster the speed of light'. Quantum theory tells us that as you approach the speed of light (lim x --> C), the fabric of space compresses around you, making distances shorter than at non relativistic speeds. Once you reach C, space compresses into a single point, and you are everywhere at once. We can't see this when moving in our sluggish Earth orbit, but if we could take a ride on a photon, that is how things would look.
Okay so....
Assume that space exists (I think, therefore I am).
Assume that space changes.
d(Space)/d(Somemeasure) = differential change in space.
Space changes a little bit for every differential value of some other measure. We name that measure time.
so dS/dt = change in space
Conclusion: Time exists.
Summary: If space changes, it needs to change some amount per unit of another measurement. That other measurement is time.
Future Research: We know space exists; again, I think, therefore I am. BUT, does space change at all?
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"Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be. I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change."~Bob Dylan
"Whoever controls the media controls the mind..-'Jim Morrison"
"When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out." ~Abbie Hoffman
And you just proved why that theory is BS.
Because there aren't photons covering the whole Universe.
"Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal."
by the way anyone here study psychology... cirdum cycles(I dont know how to spell)... its the bodys natuaraul clock... its at 24 hours 18 minutes aboout... so if you didnt have any time notifacations tyou would notice the body and mind works around those times.... but ours are "reset" every night to fit in to the 24 hour period.... also quatum physics cant really explain the EPR "problem" were photons are entalged and info travels at speed of light... either there are n-infite universe that are probablities collding with each other or there are thigns faster then light ... you can choose....