[QUOTE=DrBreen;32651303]Fourth dimension etc[/QUOTE] 4th Dimension only works depending on what kind of theory's you follow, exmp. String Theory has like 13+ in order to work. so were does time fit in to that? (i dont know that much about String, its just an example)
[QUOTE=BRadNowacki;32652490]4th Dimension only works depending on what kind of theory's you follow, exmp. String Theory has like 13+ in order to work. so were does time fit in to that? (i dont know that much about String, its just an example)[/QUOTE]
Superstring theory involves 10 dimensions and one of them is time.
No serious physicist does not follow relativity, where the 4th dimensional concept of time was introduced.
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[QUOTE=Lertez;32652414]Because we measure time to how it affects us, Its sort of the measure of record keeping if you will, and to someone in a different galaxy, they have different gravity, there are in a different place in space, and in a different in what we call time.
"Time" as we know it is just a thought made up by us to keep track of things.[/QUOTE]
They're not in a different space, they're in a different point in space. Same applies for time. Nor is their gravity different. The laws of physics are the same throughout the universe as far as we observe.
Course it is. It's physically affected by things like velocity and gravitational fields in relativity.
[QUOTE=AK'z;32640000]Time is a concept.
Concepts are real.
Discussion closed.[/QUOTE]
"Time is not real" is a concept
Concepts are real
"Time is not real" is real
discussion closed
I think it is relative and changes based on the person experiencing it so, I don't believe it truly exists. I'm not sure how our bodies regulate time, but I came up with a completely bs hypothesis myself and I'm not sure if it has any truth to it but here it goes. As a kid we know that time tends to go by a lot slower while doing things boring, and much faster while doing things which are fun. As I've gotten older I've noticed that time seems to go by pretty fast, even while doing things that would have bored me to death as a kid. So I made up a theory that says there is a chemical in our brain which regulates how we perceive time, and there is possibly a static amount of this chemical in our brain from when we are born. So as we get older and our brain becomes larger there is less of this chemical across the same brain. So the brain will perceive time slower and slower which affects us noticeably as an adult. Of course I made this up, it may be true to some degree, anyone know anything about this?
We can and do sense time, your brain has a sensor for it. It's actually your most used sense.
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;32655931]"Time is not real" is a concept
Concepts are real
"Time is not real" is real
discussion closed[/QUOTE]
"Time is not real" is real as a concept =/> "Time is not real" is true as a proposition
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[QUOTE=coilgunner;32656098]I think it is relative and changes based on the person experiencing it so, I don't believe it truly exists.[/QUOTE]
How does being relative imply it doesn't exist?
This just boils down to a syntactical argument. I'd say my thoughts are real, becuase I am experiencing them and I can reflect on them; Many think otherwise.
Based on my personal interpretation of what existence is (be it physical or otherwise) I'd say that yes, time is real.
Time is real, otherwise reality would just be frozen in a single state.
Anyone who thinks otherwise is a moron, and I'm not saying that to troll, I'm saying that because it's like saying gravity isn't real.
Maybe you should ask who are the kinda ones who can feel the passage of time to start with?
I mean planets and suns and other stuff like that, they are not in a hurry or anything.. they just float millions and billions years on end affected by gravitational pulls from bigger floaters and so on. But living organisms, in other words us, we are experiencing the passage of time, and it flows universally very slowly no matter how one measures it.
So I think that assuming there's aliens somewhere far away, they are alive as we speak doing their business, we're like connected through time right?
At a single point in time, there is no motion occurring. If everything is motionless at every instant, and time is entirely composed of instants, then motion is impossible.
If motion is impossible, time has no consequence.
BOOM!
[QUOTE=fenwick;32664692]At a single point in time, there is no motion occurring. If everything is motionless at every instant, and time is entirely composed of instants, then motion is impossible.
If motion is impossible, time has no consequence.
BOOM![/QUOTE]
But time does go forward, one second at a time..
Time is real in the sense that we can perceive it and measure it, but it has no known physical substance.
You should probably also define "Real" in your OP for less confusion.
Time is something that is weaved into life itself. It brings us from the thing that happened then, and takes us to the thing that is about to happen.
It's certainly a real thing, but it's difficult to describe. For example, have you ever had the feeling that you've just suddenly been put into the world, with the past events seeming immaterial? Like they couldn't possibly have happened?
I'm currently sat at my computer, having come back home from a party. The party happened, and it's in my memory, so I know it happened. However, tomorrow, I might not remember the ins and outs of it - it still happened, though, right?
To those who said that time is composed of instants, you're probably half-right. At any given point, we have the What's Happening Now, the What's Just Happened and the What's About To Happen. And we're always moving between them, each constantly becoming the others, moving from About To to Happening to Happened.
But this is just something we have applied to understand time. We're always moving through life, propelled by time as a force. Yet we have also invented time as a concept to help constrain this force into something we can comprehend.
And, as you will likely be agreeing if you read through this post, we really still can't.
Time is real, stop wasting time debating it and go get pussy.
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I see time as a way of organizing parts of the day. Without it, we would all potentially be fucked. You tell your friend "Don't walk in Harlem past 11:00pm." It's more descriptive than say "Don't walk in Harlem when it's dark out."
You get where I'm going at?
[QUOTE=coilgunner;32656098]I think it is relative and changes based on the person experiencing it so, I don't believe it truly exists. I'm not sure how our bodies regulate time, but I came up with a completely bs hypothesis myself and I'm not sure if it has any truth to it but here it goes. As a kid we know that time tends to go by a lot slower while doing things boring, and much faster while doing things which are fun. As I've gotten older I've noticed that time seems to go by pretty fast, even while doing things that would have bored me to death as a kid. So I made up a theory that says there is a chemical in our brain which regulates how we perceive time, and there is possibly a static amount of this chemical in our brain from when we are born. So as we get older and our brain becomes larger there is less of this chemical across the same brain. So the brain will perceive time slower and slower which affects us noticeably as an adult. Of course I made this up, it may be true to some degree, anyone know anything about this?[/QUOTE]
This is interesting. Its slightly off topic but I remember reading an article explaining the relationship of age and perception of time. It basically gave the example that to a person who is 5 years old 1 full year is 20% of their entire life so at that age time is perceived as much longer than it would be to a person who is 50 years old where 1 year is only 2% of their entire life. To be honest I was a little creeped out by it because the older you get the faster time will feel and shorter your life will seem.
But as far as time goes I'm not necessarily well versed in scientific theory's and the like but I do quite a bit of speculation on my own. And recently I've been asking myself the same question: What is time? More than anything I'm inclined to say its nothing more than a concept because I can't experience anything besides this exact instant. While I do have memories of other instances... Its difficult to say, its certainly not something that's going to be defined within a single thread but the discussion is nice.
[QUOTE=AK'z;32640000]Time is a concept.
Concepts are real.
Discussion closed.[/QUOTE]
this is the first post by ak'z that i actually agree with and hasn't been smug
[QUOTE=ThePutty;33045645]this is the first post by ak'z that i actually agree with and hasn't been smug[/QUOTE]
But it was then it was rebutted.
Time is a very weird concept. Humans have trouble looking at things as though they don't have a beginning or an end. Therefore, when looking at something like how the universe was created, we have trouble imagining that the universe simply came into existence from nothing. Does that mean time came into existence when the universe did? Or does that mean time never existed and there is no beginning or an end? Very hard question to answer, but it's another one of those scientific questions that I prefer to have theories about instead of trying to get an answer set in stone.
Sorry Captain, but your lombax is another castle.
Ahem..anyway.
I'll just put this here.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYiahoYfPGk[/media]
If I'm late, I'm late.
Of course time is real, I'm wasting it right now.
Seriously, it's the fourth non-spacial dimension, like frames in a 3D world.
Time is real, just as history is real, and ethereal.
-the Method Man.
[QUOTE=Method_Man;33049507]Time is real, just as history is real, and ethereal.
-the Method Man.[/QUOTE]
did you really just sign your post?
It is very real.. a very slow, podding thing.
But as for our time, 365 days, 24 hours a day etc, those are simply the result of our Earth's axis and rotation, as well as the size of the Sun, the distance between the Sun and our Earth, and some other stuff too probably.
So it's complicated..
Time is a word used to describe change. In a way it is a form of measurement. It is a concept used to explain something real.
neither space nor time actually exist as set things, they are merely created through interaction of different energies with each other.
true reality is pure energy.
[QUOTE=SM0K3 B4N4N4;33066309]true reality is pure energy.[/QUOTE]
that's a huge leap from your first line
Nothing's real man, this is all a dream, a dream that will end when I kill everyone.
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