Is time real?

[craptakular]

I have been nursing a hangover all day and I have been thinking long and hard about time.

Is it real?

Is it a unit of measure for movement? The earth spins, my cells move and die etc so I "age" within the confines of time.

 

[Kosmiche]

Yes

/thread

 

[Moothead2]

It's a made up form of measurement so it doesn't technically exist.

 

[craptakular]

Yes

/thread

How so? What is "time"?

 

[Wink]

I think you might still be drunk

 

[Blue160]

Time and space are part of the same thing.

If time isn't real then nothing is.

 

[Lysander]

It's a made up form of measurement so it doesn't technically exist.

So if something's made up it doesn't exist?

You mean it doesn't naturally exist. Well, it does.

All measurements exist in nature. All we do is note and classify them. They still exist as they are.

A centimetre doesn't call itself a centimetre but it still exists. A whale doesn't call itself a whale but it still exists.

 

[Derek W]

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18470594

 

[Nate75]

So if something's made up it doesn't exist?

You mean it doesn't naturally exist. Well, it does.

All measurements exist in nature. All we do is note and classify them. They still exist as they are.

A centimetre doesn't call itself a centimetre but it still exists. A whale doesn't call itself a whale but it still exists.

I call false flag operation.

 

[craptakular]

Erm, how does that relate to time? PLease do not troll Derek, RTM.

 

[theleg]

How so? What is "time"?

The indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole.

its not rocket science.

 

[Bennie-Mac]

I think the real question you should be contemplating is am i a mpfon>?1

 

[W!ll]

Time as a unit or in any quantifiable terms is man made, the same with a weight say a kg, of course it exists but to quantify it terms have been created. Without units, time would still pass.

 

[Feek]

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

 

[Orionaut]

As a girlfriend of mine put it when we were talking about the nature of time..

(Who has absolutely no scientific background whatsoever, not even O levels in a science subject ( well OK, she did get Biology ) but she is nevertheless intelligent and really rather thoughtful)

"Without Time there is no action!"

Pretty perceptive really!

A more "scientific" interpretation might be...

"Time is the (Universes) mechanism through which Causes have Effects"

 

[PooBrain]

 

[BloodyL]

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Very deep, you should send that in to the Readers Digest.

 

[Saundie]

What is real? How do you define real? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.

You think that's air you're breathing now?

 

[Kosmiche]

As a girlfriend of mine put it when we were talking about the nature of time..

(Who has absolutely no scientific background whatsoever, not even O levels in a science subject ( well OK, she did get Biology ) but she is nevertheless intelligent and really rather thoughtful)

"Without Time there is no action!"

Pretty perceptive really!

A more "scientific" interpretation might be...

"Time is the (Universes) mechanism through which Causes have Effects"

You sound pretty condenscending there lol.

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

I have been nursing a hangover all day and I have been thinking long and hard about time.

Is it real?

Is it a unit of measure for movement? The earth spins, my cells move and die etc so I "age" within the confines of time.

Time is the measure we use to compare how much better other people's lives are compared to our own as they get older and we get more terrible.

By 'we' I do of course mean 'you'.