does time exist?

Question

albert einstein said that it doesnt exist. i dont really get it. can u explain it to me? Thank u all for the answers u give me

Answer 1

If you have ever seen the movie IQ there is a excellent answer to your question. Its a comedy with Walter Matthau as Einstein and some of his scientific collegues and also Meg Ryan and Tim Robbins. Anyway 1 of Einsteins collegues says to his friend.

Collegue 1) "We are wasting time, come on,serve already"

Collegue 2) "thats rediculous, how can you waste something that doesnt exist"

Collegue 1) "What, time doesnt exist? since when?"

Collegue 2) "I dont know, if time doesnt exist then there is no when"

Collegue 1) "There you go, another crazy theory"

Collegue 2) "Then tell me the exact time... right now... you see you cant... because as your telling me, the future has already become the past therefore there is no present therefore time doesnt exist"

Its a funny movie, i recommend it :)

Answer 2

I suppose this question delves into existence more than time. Do I exist could be a similiar question. Let us take the assumption that I exist.
'I think, therefore I am' - De Carte? cant remember
We will also assume that you exist under the 'I exist' clause therefore we both exist. Now, let us go father to say we now exist in the same place and are standing 10 feet from each other. I toss a ball underhanded to you, slowly, and you catch it. It is not instantly in your hand. It took a certain measurement to get to you, which i decided to measure by tapping my foot and I just so happen to tap my foot at 1 tap per second. Now, second is a measurement defined by science, so by definition it exists. Time is also a measurement much in the same way a second is and therefore exists as well. HOWEVER, Einstein's quote has been taken out of context in this situation, for he was not implying time did not exist, but that our understanding of it is horribly mauled. Furthermore, I also have a proof through contradiction for time if you wish. Time unfortunately has been described as linear. It starts from a point 0, and continues to point n. Yet since time is infinit it can never neither a starting nor ending and so our universe has never began nor will never end. The simple answer to the question 'does time exist' is:
Only in theory.

Answer 3

Einstein said time does exist. However, the rate at which time passes can be different to different observs. For example, If a person is standing still with respect to the earth and a person flies by him at nearly the speed of light, the observer on earth will see time pass much more slowly than his own.

Answer 4

while most current scientific theory accepts that time exists, in the sense that it is a real dimension, a number of scientists speculate that it is possible to understand the universe without time having to exist (see link to Paul Davies).
it is possible to think of time as merely being a construct, not a real thing. The easiest way to understand that idea is to realize that we are always in the present - you can never travel to the future or the past. Even when you remember something happening, e.g. a ball traveling from A to B, the entire travel happens in the present and what we are left with is a memory track that we replay, also in the present.
In this view, time is a construct, a convenient way of ordering our memories, as opposed to a real dimension.
If time is not real, then we do away with problems of time travel, since by definition you are always in the present.
I'm not saying that time does not exist, merely that it is possible to view it as a construct, not a real thing.

Answer 5

hi

Einstein never said that. Times does indeed exist, what he proved was that time was part of a more complex structure which involves the other dimensions (x,y,z) and that in that sense time was not that special. However it is special since is the only dimension with an arrow, you can't go back in time but you can walk back home. Check the wikipedia for special relativity.

Answer 6

are you sure einstein said that time doesnt exist?
time is a very essential part of his theory and equations. According to einstein, time exists as another dimension for an object to move through. we can move through time just as we can move through the spacial dimensions. the only catch seems to be that we can only move one way in time while we have the freedom to reverse directions in space

Answer 7

The atom is still the cornerstone of
creation.

Time is caused by the Resistance factor
as each atom forms. If all atoms could form
simultaneously, there would be no time
or distance.

Now, as "energy forms" run through their
various cycles, change occurs. We note
the change and convert it into something we
call time.

Einstein is right. There is no real time.

Answer 8

When you wake up and your alarm clock wakes you up and your still tired.. It's time to go to work... Unfortunately you have no control over it... Sleep in late, Your body needs it..

As far as Albert? The clock still clicks.... This clock still clicks even while you read this... Time stops for no one... Time is locked up into each and everyone's mind..... It's what you do with the time you have.. Thats whats important... So Time Exist...

Answer 9

Time itself is just an idea that is relative to the experience of other forces. Time cant exist without other things such as speed, energy, space. So it exists as much as a mathmatic principle such as addition exists, but it is not autonomous.

Answer 10

time is irrelevant, thats what i would say. i believe in equilibrium, so i view time as the existance of doubt and flaw. if you wish time to exist then it will, but in many cases such as this. time really has no reality or existance in the form known to us. space is the relevant and time is the irrelevant.