I want to know what the meaning of time actually is. Could it be possible that all existence is living on different levels of consciousness. Did yesterday really happen, is tomorrow just a concept? Is this question even valid?
2006-10-24 08:09:46 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
There are 3 kinds of time.
1 Chronological time is the movement of the earth around the sun and The growth and decay of organism, the distance from here to there.
2 Psychological time our interpretation of yesterday today and
tomorrow.
3 The everlasting now which our ordinary mind cannot grasp
because we are conditioned to be attached to our memory (past).
I think we have to dissolve our psychological conditioning before
we can understand the "now moment" that is without the past
and the future.
2006-10-24 09:18:22 · answer #1 · answered by ol's one 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Time is such an odd concept. Something like time has to exist, though in theoretical physics the "required" part if time is called "causality." That is, the concepts of before and after have to hold true for the laws of physics to work correctly. I cannot light a match, light a fuse with the match, cause an explosion, and then have that explosion light the initial match. Cause and effect have to be maintained. So there is some sort of before and after, and therefore there must be time. However, as far as Einstein's theory of spacetime, and the many other theories that have been presented by various brilliant minds, they do still remain mostly theories, because we are generally unable to set up experiments to test them. Einstein's theories of time being relative, however, have been tested and proved. All this truly means, though, is that time is something flexible and not entirely absolute ... as far as what time really _is_, we are still waiting on a definitive answer; so anyone who has a rational theory (and I stress the term rational here, as I have heard some pretty farfetched stoner ideas on the subject that were just plain stupid) should not write their ideas off as ignorant. We all experience the phenomenon of time every moment of every day ... and I believe we are all in a position to examine it and come up with our own theories as to the true nature of time.
As far as the actual question, though ... is there a past and a future ... the answer is almost undoubtedly yes, because of causality. Certain things happen before other things, and after yet more things. This is something that has to hold true for our universe to operate correctly, and it is a rule that is never broken.
2006-10-24 17:00:22 · answer #2 · answered by Religion and Science 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lets see here... Time has no mass, no dimension, no energy. It can't be touched, seen or felt in any way. It basically fits all the definitions necessary for something to not exist.
Time is a mental construct. It exists only as an abstraction in the mind and has no reality beyond that.
Lets look at it another way. According to Einstein, if you travel at the speed of light, time stops. The only frame of reference that is absolute is the speed of light, and so from the ultimate frame of reference time does not exist.
OK, so why is it that we all experience time? Why is it that today feels so radically different than yesterday? The illusion of separation creates the illusion of time. The birth of the ego literally creates time.
2006-10-24 15:36:16 · answer #3 · answered by taotemu 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A truly great question! Time is an illusion, and so is death. All things are connected, all things are moving, always changing. Some believe "time" to be a name for the fourth dimension. Other take it to merely be a construct of the human mind desperately searching for ways to understand our lives. In this sense, time is self-created. There is evidence for this as well: those who master Time itself, the essence of what lies beyond the work "time" that is, can travel anywhere, anytime, merely doing so. There is no cause and effect here, no duality of any sort. Just let go of your mind, your ego, and the answer to this question becomes apparent. There is no question in the first place. :)
2006-10-24 16:00:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If everything changes, even the present doesn't exist. It is all an illusion. Nothing happened, nothing happening, nothing to happen. All comes and goes.
Time is arbitrary. It is only a measure of movement. The earth, the starts, the planets. It is based on things that perish, so time too, as we know it, vanishes as the illusion it is.
Only eternity, God, consciousness, IS. If you can even call it something existing. It just IS of it's own accord. It is the subjectivity of all our objectivity.
2006-10-24 15:56:20 · answer #5 · answered by David M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time is a reality, not an imaginated construct. Seasons change, yet theres no winter, spring, summer, fall, summer, winter, fall, then spring, then back to summer, then sprummer.
The earth revolves around itself at a measurable rate that is the same, day inday out.
The earth has an orbit, in which it revolves around the sun (i believe its once every year, but correct me if Im wrong, lol). These exist and go in a linear direction, irregardless of whether man exists or not.
While we might have "micromanaged" time and defined it with seconds and minutes, hours and days, the ESSENCE of time exists. Past and Future. We occupy a dimension that has a direction. Past to Future.
2006-10-24 16:07:21 · answer #6 · answered by Jose 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Abstract world dude-We created a lot of stuff other animals don't know about, like,-time,money,retirement plans,insurance,murder just to kill,we also lie about any thing and every thing all the time because we have a great imagination which is a two edge sword. We create a lot of good stuff and a lot of bad stuff but time was created to keep track of the early hunting task,farming task and paying the first hooker for her hour of pleasure.
2006-10-24 15:21:06 · answer #7 · answered by super stud 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
of course yesterday happened, you fool.
what makes you think that "days" matter? in other words, if you had not gone to sleep last night, and you were awake for over 24 hours straight, would you think that you were warping time or something? why should midnight be the cut-off point for reality? tomorrow is just as real as 5-minutes-from-now is. hell, 3000000000 years from now is just as real as 1.2342 milliseconds from now.
time is a straight line. no going back. no jumping ahead.
2006-10-24 15:20:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Time does indeed exist. It only exist though, so that everything does not happen all at once.
2006-10-24 15:14:33 · answer #9 · answered by suffaman46 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go spend a a year in prison for something that you didn't do and see if by some freaking miracle you don't stop asking questions like that!
2006-10-24 15:34:38 · answer #10 · answered by quitbeing 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋