Honestly, if it is, there will be no way of telling. So how do I know a thousand years actually passed by the time I post this question?
2006-12-22 06:40:06 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
There would be two large vertical, parallel bars in the lower right hand corner of existence. (check the source).
2006-12-22 07:26:31 · answer #1 · answered by never_too_clever 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Interestingly enough, some scientists have suggested that this may be happening in a sense.
We know that energy is quantized - it occurs in packets, some of which have a minimum size. There is also reason to believe that space is quantized... which is to say that objects can not be located literally anywhere in space, but that there are just so many very small locations that it appears that way from the outside. The same may hold for time.
If time is also quantized and not continuous, then things would unfold like individual frames in a movie. There would be a time point A and a time point B and aboslutely nothing in between. Things would be positioned differently in different frames, making motion and the like seem to occur, but really each time point would be entirely self-contained.
If this were so, there MAY be ways of telling. Actually, time quantization follows from space quantization and vice versa. We obviously cannot observe gaps in time, but we could observe gaps in space... it would just require ridiculously powerful tools we don't currently have access to right now.
2006-12-22 07:01:11 · answer #2 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You wouldn't know unless you were still conscious during the pause. How could you. In fact if everything was paused would time really be moving forward? I mean everything has stopped so would time also stop.
2006-12-22 06:48:38 · answer #3 · answered by Bruce Tzu 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no way to pause time (according to the theory of relativity). One can only speed it up. also, time relies on people to perceive it (no perception of time = no time. Do people in a coma experience time?), so if nobody perceives time pausing, then time didn't pause.
2006-12-22 07:58:16 · answer #4 · answered by gnodab03 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Sorry but this question is kinda weird and besides you cant pause time. That is impossible.
2006-12-22 06:49:14 · answer #5 · answered by :) 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
look at the electronic dates! no, dont have a clue but its pretty scary no! Try watching Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy! gets you thinking about a lot more things than that!
2006-12-22 06:47:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
existence can never be paused , what makes u think that time can be stoped?? it can never stop..time is eternal
2006-12-22 06:51:40 · answer #7 · answered by maverickmonk 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋