Does time really exist, do you agree or disagree with this opinion?

Question

If I may be blunt, many if not all of the theories of physics are incorrect. This is just my opinion, and let me explain why.For example,in Einstein's theory of relativity E=MC(squared), time(in C) is factored in as a constant. But in my opinion, time is a psychological state and a reference point invented by man. By this, we think linearly (past, present, and future). In essence our state (body) is always in the present. It is just our minds that function that way. One thing is certain, the earth orbits the sun and rotate onto itself.Our cells also divide and we age (givin us a sense of time and passage). I believe that it is erroneous to sum up the universe in mathematical terms as we are the fishes in the fishbowl. We would have to be the creator(or outside observer) to fully understand the true nature and function of the universe. The world is made to suit the observers, by this I meen: we perceive our environment with our senses. Who knows what lies beyond our perceptions?

Answer 1

If time doesn't exist, how can I waste so much of it here at Yahoo! Answers?!?!

Answer 2

Time does exist!!!

Time is not man made. However, the measurement of time is man made. Time passed before man, and time will pass for a long time after we are gone.

The passage of time is also relative to the observer...more specifically the speed of the observer. Have you ever heard of the Twin Paradox? As an object's speed approaches the speed of light (which is impossible if it has mass, but that is beyond the scope of this post), the passage of time for that object approaches zero. Therefore, the passage of time slows as speed increases. At normal speeds, this difference in time passage is imperceptible.

As for your questions dealing with what goes on beyond human perceptions, I am guessing you are asking relative to physica and not the fact that humans can't perceive / hear the sound made by a dog whistle.

Have you ever read the book In Search of Schrodinger's Cat by John Gribbon? It is an interesting read related to your question.

Answer 3

Physicists are already aware that time is an artificial construct. You're hardly the first to come up with the idea. Secondly, You misunderstand Einstein's Theory of Relitivity if you think C represents time because C represents the speed of light. This is not a measure of time but of distance.Specifically, it refers to the distance that of light can travel in one year.

Answer 4

I agree with you and when I have stated the same opinion to others they have said "HUHHHHH????" and blown it off as looney talk.

I think time is just on the clock. We are indeed always in the present, which explains how one could enter "eternity" in a single state that never changes. Our lives and our experiences are simply a series of sequential events always in the present.

Therefore I believe that it would be impossible to travel "back in time" but could be possible to travel back through the series of events - but always at whatever age we began the journey back since we would be the constant element.

Here's the freaky part though: If everybody is moving along in parallel in a set series of events and we could go back, we wouldn't see anyone else because they would have already come up to the present. The only way to interact with anyone from our "past" would be to take them with us since they don't exist there anymore.

So you could go back and kill your parents (god forbid!) before your birth year if you took them back there with you and you would be fine because you already reached the point at which you traveled back to kill them.

Yeah, looney paradoxal stuff I know!

God exists outside of our physical universe and therefore can view all of the event series....so He already knows the past, present, and future.

Answer 5

Time is a way of measuring the interval between events, just as a yardstick measures the distance between two points. Both are purely human constructs invented to assist us in our daily lives. We use physical measurement to help us build and reproduce things necessary to our survival and comfort (shelter, clothing, etc.). We use time measurement to help us know when to plant and harvest our food and to schedule all the other important events in our lives. Over the ages, we've improved and refined our ability and precision in measuring time--going from the position of the sun in the sky to atomic clocks. And we depend heavily on its measurement. But does time exist anywhere else in the known universe, outside the human experience?

I don't believe it does. Who else or what else needs to know and depends on the measurement of the interval between events? Unless there are other intelligent beings out there, we are the only ones for whom time matters, for whom time exists.

Answer 6

It doesn't. I talked to my dad's friend about this is and he convinced me. If you really think hard about it....it doesn't. Like if it's 10:05,and then someone asks you what time it is you can't say what time it is, because by the "time" you say what "time" it is, it's already passed. Do you kind of understand? There are lots of opinions. But, I truly believe it doesn't. We created it, therefore it was never there in the first place. The only thing that keeps our "time" going is our solar system rotation, but without the sun and the moon, (we'd be dead), but still if we weren't, what "time" would it be?

Answer 7

Does physical time exist? There are three basic equations describing our universe that deal with physical time. E = mc2, m = E/c2, and c2 = E/m all have as their basis physical time "c2". The last equation is that for a field of physical time, or a gravitational field. This, of itself, demonstrates that physical time is a physical reality. "The Problem and Repair of Relativity" at http://360.yahoo.com/noddarc goes into greater detail.

Answer 8

The essence of time is the continuous transition of events, the never-ending and inevitable change from point a to point b. Man created time as to be merely a marker to these series of changes.

Answer 9

It's certainly clear that you need to take several years of Physics and Philosophy. Also a one year graduate course on 'Meta-mathematics' and maybe read up on Poppers theories of knowledge wouldn't be a bad idea.

Then get into consciousness research.


Doug

Answer 10

Good thought, The Australian Aborigines believe a concept like this they called it dream time.
We industrialized people can thank the industrial revolution for making us think of this. Before then for common man there was planting, growing, harvest and fallow.
No commutes or time clocks.
I myself would get bored.

Answer 11

Let's think of time in a 2d world , an animation made bi moving paper weary fast.You cold put every paper of the 2d world , representing a fraction of it's time , in a static notebook in a 3d world .So a dynamic 2d world can be represented as a static 3d picture .... a dynamic 3d world can be represented as a static 4d picture .