Is Time Even Real?
Time you may think it has been with us since the dawn of the universe, but is it all an illusion?
What is time?
We have a pretty good idea of time, we use clocks to measure it and it seems to pass by.
But is time real?
Well, that depends on who you ask.
Some philosophers like Aristotle would say that time is relational.
It is the measure of change.
Imagine that everything in the Universe stopped moving, all the particles have come to a halt and you are unable to experience the world around you.
Would time still pass in such Universe?
Sir Isaac Newton would say yes.
He claimed that time and space will exist whether or not there are events that happen.
He viewed time as absolute; meaning that someone on the North Pole would experience time the same way as someone on Venus, assuming of course that the person can survive intense heat ... but there is a big issue here; thanks to Einstein's theory of relativity we know that not everyone experience events in time in the same way.
Here is an example that will make it easier to understand:
Say that you see two flashes of lightning strike; the ground at the same moment, to you these events happen simultaneously, but to someone travelling close to the speed of light relative to the ground, one lightning flash may appear to happen before the second, in other words, an event in your present is in someone else's future.
What about presentism?
This contradicts presentism, which states that only the present moment is real, and the past and future are not.
So that lightning flash is both real and not real, but surely makes no sense, instead the block Universe theory says that time is the fourth dimension and the past, present and future are all equally real.
The present is just subjective, of course, there are problems with this theory, and many other have tried to describe time and whether or not is just in our minds; as of right now we don't have any specific answers.
But we can for sure assume that time, whether or not if it is an illusion, is something that all humans can
relate to; thus bringing a purpose along with its existence.
What do you think?
Thanks for reading!
I think it is only a human perception of reality. Only mass and space exist.
Very True!
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time is what you make of it and only exists in movements :-D Nice post, bro!
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i agree to ur opinion.
I'm glad that you agree! :)
Time is an illusion for the simple fact that "Energy cannot be created or destroyed" which means that energy is eternal, there is no beginning and no end therefore time cannot start nor end so there is no point of reference. When its midnight you know that in 50% of a days time you will see light instead of darkness, two points of reference.
I agree with you but it makes you wonder how the universe was created or is it just something that does not need this illusion of time as a variable; it just exists.
As Lauryn Hill says....it is what is
Or
Everything is everything
Is anything even real? What does it mean to ask if something is real or not? Is it real like a rock is real? Is it real like love is real? Is it like a hallucination is real for the person having it? Is it real like the idea of a unicorn or a dragon is real? Is gravity real? Is the gravitational theory real? Am I real?
Regarding the concept of time, I believe Aristotle pretty much nailed in its essence: time a parameter to measure evolution or change. What Aristotle couldn't be expected to understand is time's intricate relationship with space, i.e., the space-time geometry that is proposed in special and general relativity and which constitutes our most successful model of space and time so far.
Is there more to the nature and physics of time than what we've already uncovered? It is very likely so, and I'd bet that we will eventually understand it better. Maybe we must integrate aspects of time perception and consciousness into the picture. Maybe the proposed space-time geometry is just a simple version of some more general and insightful geometrical structure. Whatever the case, the simple truth that Aristotle stated remains as the very basic nature of time.
Oxygen is a hallucinogenic
We are high on life
We never know what is real
That actually results very well as a haiku. Nicely done!
Time is the stuff between pay days
haha. True
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Modern science (RT) sticks with Leibnitz view more. Nice article. Keep going!
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