Deep thoughts :D

[ObiFan]

People say that time goes by every single second of our lives and that even in death time is still with us. But how did time begin? What started time and if there's a true creator, who created time? Nothing comes into existence on it's own- nothing cannot create something and something cannot vanish from existence, it always turns into something else.

So how exactly does time work?

Is it merely a way to simplify the enormous number of years our universe has existed for? Or is it "brain lag" that is created by our own brains to trick us into thinking that everything is gradually moving forward, but in reality everything has happened at once and our brain cannot recieve and decrypt this information in such a short amount of time and creates the beforementioned "lag"? If so, our entire existence is just one singular moment that is compressed into the smallest possible scale- a singularity.


Then again, what if time doesn't exist at all and we are all living in one single moment? Pictures are merely motionless frames of this one moment- from your birth to your death and every important event is happening right now, very confusing to explain, I know.


Or perhaps time is dependant on the universe itself, slowing down and speeding up, without us ever realising it, since our brain cannot comprehend the sudden changes in speed.


To those, who read this entire post I give a potato. Two potatoes to those who understood the "one moment" theory.

 

[Sasuke2]

Time is movement in space, that's it. It is relative and dependent on gravity.

 

[Saikyokami]

Science.
God.

 

[Callypigia]

Theoretically time is a dimension. It is relative to space, gravity, energy, and momentum. I think you are alluding to the philosophical Newtonian Time. It basically states that time is a dimension independent of all events. Everything we perceive is relative to ourselves, not time itself, and that it flows in sequence. The opposing view is that time is purely immeasurable and and an intellectual construct consisting of numbers.

 

[Jazzy Stardust]

Time doesn't exist at all but change does. Time is just a document of change. Time didn't come into existence of it's own, it was created for farmers and other agriculture jobs to manage the crops, originally. It's all a man made concept.

I actually went two months without looking at the time or checking the date and my life moved in one continuous stream forward. Marking the days creates a loop effect, every week Monday is back, the same day happened last year(technically).

Time is a mental creation like everything else in society.

 

[ObiFan]

Theoretically time is a dimension. It is relative to space, gravity, energy, and momentum. I think you are alluding to the philosophical Newtonian Time. It basically states that time is a dimension independent of all events. Everything we perceive is relative to ourselves, not time itself, and that it flows in sequence. The opposing view is that time is purely immeasurable and and an intellectual construct consisting of numbers.

Never really thought about that, but still- it was pretty mindblowing writing this thread alone.

 

[Professor Finesser]

Time is the fourth dimension.

 

[NineSNS]

Time only exists relative to something else.

 

[Punk Hazard]

I like the theory of time being a flat circle. But I like Stx's answer as Well.

 

[Kishi Uzumaki]

Time is a concept made by man and man in stone age must have just perceive the time by sun's and moon's rising and setting and what we perceive as day and night is a phenomenon that occur because of the rotation of earth and time it takes to go around sun is taken as a year so you could say it's time according to the perception of earth just like we all perceive time in different perceptions .

and if you think you live in Venus for a moment, you will see that your day takes much more time than your year ( Venus takes 243 days to rotate around itself and 224.65 days to rotate around Sun ) so if you see in perception of Venus, it will be your time and will perceive the past, present and future in Venus's perceptive time so you can say it's our own perception that we perceive as time and same happens with our present moment .

 

[LogicnoJutsu]

Time is a concept made up by people. It does not exist nor will it ever.

 

[Callypigia]

Time is a concept made up by people. It does not exist nor will it ever.

It may exist eventually...only time will tell.

 

[LogicnoJutsu]

It may exist eventually...only time will tell.

You cant make Time.

All time is for us is how long it takes to spin around. 1 day is 1 full spin of the earth. 1 year is 1 full spin around the sun.

Seconds, minutes, hours. All made up and irrelevant to anything else that isn't the Human species, and thus has no reason for existing.

 

[Prometheus Beta]

Theoretically time is a dimension. It is relative to space, gravity, energy, and momentum. I think you are alluding to the philosophical Newtonian Time. It basically states that time is a dimension independent of all events. Everything we perceive is relative to ourselves, not time itself, and that it flows in sequence. The opposing view is that time is purely immeasurable and and an intellectual construct consisting of numbers.

I don't really bother with these philosophical issues (if they won't accept philosophical realism, Physics is meaningless) but let me clarify the Physics here: a "dimension" is really just a coordinate needed to specify the physical state of something. Time is a physical dimension because you need it to specify motion, there is nothing more to it (it has nothing to do with the sci-fi concept of alternate universes and whatnot). Even in the Newtonian/classical framework, time is a physical "dimension".

The difference is in classical/newtonian mechanics, we assume what is now called "absolute time" and all that means is that the rate at which a clock (or any other device used to operationally measure "time") ticks is the same for all observers, that is, independent of their state of motion. So a guy sitting on the ground on planet earth measures the same amount of time for the duration of any event he sees on his watch as another guy moving at 3/4c inside his space-ship. That just seems to be common sense. Unfortunately, it turned out that this isn't the case (how do we know that? Well they did an equivalent experiment of sorts with light, the infamous Michelson-Morley experiment) and that any device used to measure "time" operationally will do so dependent on the state of the observer. It turns out that the guy on earth will see that the guy on the space-ship has his clock running relatively slower (and vice versa actually but I cba to explain that paradox) and supposedly aging slower as well (since the duration between any and all events slows down), this is what we call "time dilation".

The problem with bringing philosophy in all this is that "time", "space", "energy" and whatnot are all defined operationally in Physics (which means that you define it to be whatever your measuring instrument reads). Well actually, pretty much all things are defined operationally in any science and that is because science, unlike some other things (e.g. pure Mathematics), is what they call an empirical system.