Time as a tangible?

Question

I would like to know about the tangability of time. Websters describes time as "a nonspacial continium, inwhich events seem to occur in an appearently irreversable succession." You are not allowed to use a word to describe itself, yet they use the term continium, another word for time, to describe it.
My question comes from this, should we try and break the hidden code of a theoretical tool we invented ourselves? If we never cared to meet someone at a specific setting on the sundial, the concept of time would never have even existed, much less be a challenge to the beings who created it. Science wants time travel. Is it reasonable, since we also invented the hammer to crave hammer travel?

I'm getting a lot on the substracts of time as a phylosophical entity. My aim is to point towards the possibility of time being a tangible (physical presence) and not to understand more than I already know about the mental implications of it.

Answer 1

You should Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughter-House Five". It conisders the possibility that time is just an illusion anyway. Time is actually a loop, all things are happening at once. We are nothing but giant cosmic centipedes . . .

Answer 2

Time :

Can time exist without mind ?
May be it can.

But to have a time travel you need to berak the velocity barrier of the speed of light.

By the theory of relativity nothing can travel faster than light.
At least no physical body simply governed by physical laws and forces.
In which case how will you do time travel ?

There are 2 approaches : catch time and bend it, reverse it.
This is too abstract and a bizarre concept seemingly impossible taks. It is too imaginary for it to be of any real significance or value.

There is antoher approach. Perceive time through mind.
Mind is faster than the speed of light. Since when light takes around 4 years to reach one of the nearest star known as Alpha Centaurie, your mind can reach there much faster even within seconds or within a fraction of a second. Imaging you see this star using a telescope and you start thinking about its looks, beauty etc. Your mind has already reached there.

The real challenge is how to use this fast paced mind to make the travel of physical objects including human body ?

Unless this happens you can't travel faster than light.
Once you travel faster than light, there are many combinations in which you can do time travel.

These are some indirect hints that demands a lot of reflections, explorations mostly "internal" and sincere and arduous efforts in life. I can't write more on this.

Once you reflect on this you will see how much energy consuming it is simply to understand the concept I describe.

How much arduous and efforts intensive will it be to actually explore this further and make this thing actually happen ? This exploratoin is not a path for timid and casual seekers. There is no guarantee of success. But then how many guarantees are there in life anyways ? Also the path towards seeking this invention is full of pit falls, dangers, difficulties and with a high potential of getting misguided and getting misinformed. A full chance of deceits that may take a number of years to realize that you were being deceived, misguided or misinformed.

It's your call, or anyone's call who really has a sustainable reason to embark on such an exploratoin / research.

Answer 3

There are 5 different types of time. There is physical, psychological, philosophical, scientific, and biological. Each has it's own concept.
The philosophical one says; 'The past is totally abstract, it has already happened and can only be in your head - it cannot be held. The future is also totally abstract, it has not happened yet. It can only be in your head - it cannot be held. The present is an infinite small reality between the future and the past. Like trying to think 'think'. Once you think 'think', it is already a 'thought'. It cannot be held. So, is everything in your head, do they exist outside of your mind?
Scientific time is relative. As one moves faster, the time slows down. Until you reach the speed of light, where time no longer exists. If a twin left earth in a rocket ship that travels near the speed of light, and comes back after a year, when he returns to earth his brother will be years older than him. This was proven when they put 2 atomic clocks on 2 different airplanes, and had a 3rd atomic clock at the airport. Both planes left in opposite directions - flew around the earth, and landed at the same airport. All 3 clocks show different times accordingly. Hard to believe, ain't it?

Answer 4

somehow you're making reference to the main plot on The time machine, by Wells.
Different philosophers talk about time:
Aristotle's in Physics and Metaphysics.
Augustine in "De trinitate"
Bergson, Kant, Heidegger.
Tangible, I think it can not be said so in any of them.