Question what if time does not exist?

Time is just what we use to track cause and effect. Without time there would be no cause and effect. Everything would be frozen in place. In fact the universe would not have started in the first place.
 
Where does all the time go?

It must go somewhere.

I reckon dark matter is just all the old bits of time, plus the weird bits of gravity that ruin everyone's nice tidy equations.
 
MikeTheNative said:
I've watched Doctor Strange so you could call me a bit of an expert in the subject I guess.
I've always found it suspicious that time seems to fit into sections way too easily. For example 60 seconds in a minute then 60 minutes in an hour. That's way too much of a coincidence.
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Digital time would be much nicer ;)
The bit we are tied to is the rotation of the earth round the sun.
We could however have 100 seconds in a minute, 100 hours in a day. But then we are stuck, x number of days in a month we could abandon I guess, I mean what do months add.
We could then go to 100 days in a year, a year being roughly a season, but over time (oops) it would shift to not match very well

A year being a complete cycle, but not quite hence the leap year adjustment, then the century adjustment etc which bring it roughly back inline
 
"Your honour I could not have pooed through that letter box last Wednesday because time does not exist, and there is no such thing as last Wednesday.

Also you are a pedo and necrophile because your wife hasn't even been born yet and is dead."

- Mrwong, shortly before being taken to Broadmoor
 
GreatAuk said:
"Your honour I could not have pooed through that letter box last Wednesday because time does not exist, and there is no such thing as last Wednesday.

Also you are a pedo and necrophile because your wife hasn't even been born yet and is dead."

- Mrwong, shortly before being taken to Broadmoor
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If you had intercourse with an omelette, would that make you a pedo, a necrophiliac or a bestialist?

Asking for a friend.
 
I never know what the time is or even what day it is so yes time doesn't exist -Well when you are old that is.:)
 
CuriousTomCat said:
We already knew that reality is an illusion and reality exists in space-time so it's no surprise that time is an illusion. Space must be an illusion too since it's so intrinsically linked.
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We're all an illusion. Its like cosmic, dude.

Hades said:
Time is just what we use to track cause and effect. Without time there would be no cause and effect. Everything would be frozen in place. In fact the universe would not have started in the first place.
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A.k.a. entropy, yup. Third law of thermodynamics? I forget. They figured this stuff out in the 19c nothing to see here, folks.
 
Hades said:
Time is just what we use to track cause and effect. Without time there would be no cause and effect. Everything would be frozen in place. In fact the universe would not have started in the first place.
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Our reality still has cause and effect, even though time may not be real. The article posted just failed to explain it properly.

Also, everything wouldn't be frozen in place at all. Quite the opposite actrually. Time doesn't exist for a massless particle while it's traveling through empty space, neither do distances. The Big Bang, present day, and the end of the universe all happened instantaneously from the pospective of a massless particle traveling at the speed of light where time doesn't exist. That's science fact.
 
The time system is a social human construct as part of our rational of the things around us.

It would be interesting to know when a form of time was invented. I'm thinking with the moon, the sun, and the stars.

Was the sundial the first time clock?
 
BowdonUK said:
The time system is a social human construct as part of our rational of the things around us.

It would be interesting to know when a form of time was invented. I'm thinking with the moon, the sun, and the stars.
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Measurements of time might well be a human(*) invention, but time itself isn't. Time has existed as long as the universe has existed. Or at least as long as ~10^-43 seconds afterwards. We've no idea what happened before then.

Was the sundial the first time clock?
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Depends on how you define "clock". There probably were other shadow-based devices with markings before a sundial. It's unlikely that a sundial was invented completely out of the blue. People would have observed far earlier that the shadow cast by an object varied over the day, even if was only to a degree such as "it's a good idea to start making or returning to a night shelter when the shadow from that tree reaches that rock".

Hmm...how far back do gravity-based time-measuring devices go? They're essentially what we'd call a timer nowadays. Is that a clock? They're often called clocks and they're not essentially different in principle to the later devices definitely called clocks that required regular winding-up.


* Depending on how you define "human". Measuring time would predate homo sapiens but probably not predate the entire homo genus. Time-sensitive tasks go back at least as far as homo erectus, so they must have measured time to some extent.
 
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