What is 'time'?

[Tanzeylee]

Guys its not funny. Either answer the OP with mature answers or log off. Just grow up please.

Falls wanking to the floor...

Her trick is you and me, Drone

I'm tired of this stuff. Just think about it. It's pathetic. We're supposed to be responsible adults here.

Adults yes, responsible no...

 

[Ade & Ko.]

It's not that well accepted

The theory is well accepted in terms of it not having been disproved, it's just a very difficult thing to prove or disprove. There is little evidence to point to it existing, but there is also little evidence to point to it not existing. Hawking is an advocate of the theory.

It's a comfortable notion that we'd like to believe in as the alternative is scary. That's a little facetious, there are good scientific reasons to believe in a multiverse.

This is hard to explain properly. Basically, everybody is moving through time right now. You can move through space by moving your arm but even if you keep your arm completely still, you are still moving through time. Think of a picture taken of you every millisecond put next to each other. Each picture represents time and movement is just the illusion of watching time go past quickly as the position changes bit by bit.

The problem with this is that it means we move in four dimension from the beginning of our lives, thus we are just one long string of pictures. The issue of this comes down to relative time and relative space. There is no "forward" in time just as there is no "forward" in space. Your perception of what "forward" is changes depending on which direction you are facing in and is almost entirely private to you, just as the same is within time. The consequence of this when applied to the series of pictures is that the pictures in front of you already exist as the notion of "direction" in time is nonsense.

Therefore everything you will ever do is already pre-determined which includes everything from blinking to murdering 300 people and we're just moving through time. The multiverse gives us an out to this - if every possible event that could happen HAS happened then we retain a sense of free will and choice as each decision we make creates a new Universe where that decision didn't occur rather than the alternative.

Shit. This logic makes me feel ill.

 

[chappy190]

I guess you could say that time does nor really exist. because all we have is this present moment, it's all we have ever had, this one solitary moment, the past is a memory the future is just a dream, what is real is Now anything else is just a concept

There is no such thing as the present . There's the future and the past What we refer to as the present is just the very recent past ,As soon as we have experienced it ,its gone into the past.

 

[Bigg Bigg Blue]

Shit just happens, thats it.

 

[dobobobo]

*Sigh*

If only there was a filter button, I'd then seriously consider contributing to the thread.

(Comment not aimed at the poster above this post.)

 

[Gelsons Dad]

Over time, time has evolved

Intuitive time - causality, irreversibility, Trajectory

Newtonian time - Absolute. A clock in the sky independent of everything. A Universal constant. measured these days by Caesium atom vibrations.

Relativity - Relational, dimensional constraint, personal. But fails at quantum level.

Quantum - decoherence time! - Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

 

[Gelsons Dad]

Who created hours minutes and seconds? And how did it become accepted by everyone on the planet?

This was one of my next questions and yes it's a complete head wrecker.

It feels completely impossible that when 'creating' the 24 hour clock we use today, that anyone could've 'known' how long a second or minute was. Also, how the fuck did they convince everyone on the planet of it's importance or it's need to be implemented?

You have to think, this was years and years ago.

If someone came up with such a concept today, even with our global communications capacity, there would be, in my opinion, no chance of getting it to 'stick'.

Mind boggling.

Babylonians.

Lunar observation gives approximately 12 lunar cycle (plus a bit) repetitive pattern. 60/30 being common denominations of 12. The names minutes and seconds come from the latin names of first and second divisions.

 

[Irwell]

There is no such thing as the present . There's the future and the past What we refer to as the present is just the very recent past ,As soon as we have experienced it ,its gone into the past.

Just because what you observe isn't what is happening now doesn't mean that what is happening now isn't happening. If a tree falls in the woods it still makes a sound even if nobody is there to observe that sound. You are mixing up an event with the observation of that event.

 

[Lavinda Past]

Shit just happens, thats it.

^^THIS^^

 

[BlueBearBoots]

I find our perception of time weird, yesterday for example seemed to speed by because I wasn't checking the time at all just having fun, 7 hours whizzes by. At work however every minute is torture and 7 hours feels like a lifetime