Movements of things created by all kinds of forces create changing scenes, e.g. sun rises, planets moving around planets, moving/movements within themselves, etc. in turn provide impression of time ( a sense of change ? ), which really is just conceptual and somewhat artificial- don't you think? Consider these: " time to eat . . . " and " it's 7:15pm, let's eat . . . " + Do all people who are 70 years old exactly today live or experience in the same time? do they necessarily or evidently 70 years old absolutely, or reflect the time they have experienced, or are they each just changes, transforming? Time is artificial, just a concept, just a sense, a reflection . . .
2006-07-02 02:05:21 · 29 answers · asked by CompassionIsPossible 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Time is a construct of the human mind. You can actually discover a place of 'no time' inside yourself.. it's interesting, and also another topic:)
Time exists in connection with space as what scientists call 'space/time' but for practical thought, time does not exist in the sense we generally use it in everyday thought.
2006-07-02 04:14:47 · answer #1 · answered by judie_cht 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
When you ask if time exists what do you mean. Do you mean doe sit have a type of existense at all, the ans. is obviously yes. The question what type of existense. It would seem time is a DEPENDENT existense. Time is really the measurement of motion. For ex. we say a day is 24 hrs, what we are really sayin is that this unit of a day is how long it takes the earth to make a full rotation. If motion did not exist time would not either. You may ask that there is something that is not related to time per se yet we treat it as such. For ex the concept that 2 is really 2 ones and the idea of 1 is prior, or comes before 2. This to is a type of motion, something must have combined the 2 seperate ones into one unit of 2, that act of combining is a motion and therefore can relate in some ways to time
2006-07-05 08:43:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only truth about the human existence is TIME. The world has come into existence and will perish some day. But TIME will keep going on. Everything will start again, earth may pass through many ages but TIME will be there and will always keep counting.
Many say that TIME don't exists bcoz it is not clearly visible. But it can be felt. We remember each and every moment either passed or which may happen in future only through the reference of TIME.
What you said about people in their 70's is their transformation. But any transformation comes through TIME. That is a valid reason why will call them of being 70 yrs old. That is a TIME factor.
So it's illogical to say that TIME does not exists.
2006-07-02 02:21:44 · answer #3 · answered by john s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
time may have a subjective effect, but it is very real - not just an artificial concept.
You experienced yesterday - it was real. Just because someone else had a different experience doesn't make it artificial or a concept.
You could have gone to a fair or circus yesterday - and hundreds or thousands of people would have experienced it differently.
2006-07-02 02:11:20 · answer #4 · answered by nickipettis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to Einstein, time is dimensional, exactly as space is ... width, depth, and height ... it's just that, unlike these other three dimensions, we can only travel in one direction and at one speed through the dimension of time, because this is how we're evolved to exist ... can you imagine what reality might be truly like, if we think about time as a dimension as space is? "There's more than is dreamt of in our philosophy", to misquote Shakespeare!
If you want to know more about this, try reading "Flatland" by Edwin Abbott, or Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, or "Time Travel in Einstein's Universe" by J. Richard Gott :-)
2006-07-02 20:30:39 · answer #5 · answered by Lea 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time is relative. Time shall always exist in some sense but it shall be more relative after the universe is destroyed on Judgement Day. There shall be no more sun and no more moon. So time shall be in accordance with events, thus more relative. In a way time will not exist as we know it now.
2006-07-02 12:04:25 · answer #6 · answered by David L 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time is broken down into smaller and smaller units. The second, is a measurment of the amount of movement of atoms of a certin substance. After so many movememts one second has advanced. Since this can be watched and documented scientificaly, it exists, and therefore time exists.
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2006-07-02 02:15:38 · answer #7 · answered by Bacchus 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time is experienced at different rates depending on the fun you are having and how much you are doing. Time seems to get faster the older you get too. I cant keep up with time lately! What used to feel like months now feel like weeks.
2006-07-02 02:11:00 · answer #8 · answered by Chloe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time is an abstract concept which we use to measure change. You're pretty right though, it is artificial. In reality, there is only the present - no past, no future.
2006-07-02 02:10:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes,of course time really doesn't exits,but its depend on the perceptions of the living being,if one could thing beyond ..... limits
he could accept this,
But its hard to describe,If one could able to feel,and understand that whats our knowledge,rational capacity is not true,Human beings are limits in their knowledge, they highly depend on perceptions and logical conclusions to arrive the truth,
Nobody never knows the absolute reality,i don't know if there is absolute reality
However i feel no time is exists ,
2006-07-02 02:17:53 · answer #10 · answered by abraja 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋