the notion presented by Einstein in his theory of relativity that time does not have a foundation in reality?

Question

what are your thoughts ?

Answer 1

I don't think that's what Einstein was saying. Time does indeed have a foundation in reality, but like length and speed, it's subjective depending on where you are and how you're moving. For a person in a spaceship going extraordinarily fast, a clock will appear to tick at one-second intervals. For a person on Earth looking at the clock in a spaceship that's going very fast, it appears that the clock is ticking in greater-than-one-second intervals. Both people are correct, both measurements are accurate, both results can be proven mathematically. Time is real and logical, and we need it to explain the Universe; it just doesn't always appear consistant to our constrictive way of thinking. In fact, you must really give Einstein an incredible amount of credit for being able to bend his mind around such difficult and radical concepts. It went against all human experience, and yet he saw that it had to be true.

Answer 2

I find myself agreeing with him. I think time is a man-made unit of measurement that we've come to rely upon in order to make sense of everything. We really don't know how to function without it, even Einstein, used measurements of time (particularly in regards to speed) in explaining other parts of his theory of relativity.

Answer 3

too deep. headache material.