Is Time a trick of human perception?

Question

Is it plausible to think of the universe as completely static, while the movement of planets, barking of dogs, chatting of game show hosts, bowel movements, etc. are all only distortions of human subjective reality?

Answer 1

I cannot help asking here: why should I allow myself thinking like this? Why should I give something else, a concept of my own mind, a status of permanence, and not to my own sense of reality that is tenable, informed, wholesome and practical? If my perception of reality is all I have to observe, to seek and even to question all this then why should I created yet another reality, secondary domain of perception, through my own critical thinking to assume that this secondary domain is fixed, and not my primary sense of reality that experiences both time and space. It is as much as to say that an egg created a chicken for its own purpose, of transportation around on land or of producing yet another egg, and that a chicken is just a means to its ends.

The fact is that all that we observe, all that is near or far, big or small, quick or slow, is because of an existence pulsating at an infinitesimally fine frequency. All things that we observe in front of our eye, even those things appear static, are I fact in a state of continuous motion, at the speed of light. If anything comes to a complete standstill that thing will be not be observable at all, stillness in the universe means complete and absolute depletion of all energy, including energy that formulate as mass itself. The motions of electrons inside and atom that make it possible for common matter to assume its peculiar elementary forms is due to energy, without that kinetic energy the very structure of matter will collapse into annihilation or non-existence.

All things in the universe are in a state of constant motion due to energy they posses, and all matter is in fact, if I may call a solidification of energy into various formations. To exist means to be energetic, and to be energetic means to move one way or the other, and our observation of this relative movement gives us our sense of time. We observe other things because we are different in characteristics than all other things; this is why I am I and you are you, and not the same. Similarly, there are various things in the universe with variously different characteristics, one thing therefore can observe other things from its own standpoint, and that observation gives a sense of movement. An insect for example tied to a large wheel would not notice the wheel turning until it is detached from that wheel.

We observe things changing, growing, decaying, increasing, reducing, slowing down and speeding up because we can stand aloof to observe. We enjoy this ability because we are not what we observe. Time therefore is not an absolute reality. It is just a sense of things happening before us at a constant speed. We observe that this speed is constant because the way we obverse things is standard for us or is fixed. Just the way we can observe things changing because we can standstill and observe, we can also sense time passing because there is something inside us that is unchanging and permanent, something that is not influence by time, for if it were and everything would change, we would never be able to tell the time, something that is essential in our being and is at rest, as all thing in our world including our physical reality change, and we see that change happening, or time passing that some point fixed or ‘static’ with timeless qualities is inside our essential being enabling us to exist as we do, something around which our entire physical reality of constructed, including this big wide universe.

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Answer 2

The implication that actions take pace such as the creation of the universe implies that it is not static. Passage of time is real however it is subjective. That is to say it is relative to the person measuring time. For instance, when you look at a star in the sky such as Alpha Centauri one may think that you are seeing that star as it is right now. However, you are actually seeing that star as it was 4 years ago because that is how long it takes the light from Alpha Centauri to travel to your eye. The star may explode at this exact moment in "time", but you wouldn't know for another 4 years.

One other thing to think about is how we actually measure time. This is also subjective. We measure one day as 24 hours. However, if you lived on Earth millions of years ago a day might only be 22 hours long. That is because the Earth's rotation is slowing down, which would change the way we think about a day. Another example is how we measure a year. We think of a year as 365 days because that is how long it takes our planet to travel around our star. Yet if you lived on mercury, you might define a year as 88 Earth days. To make things even more complex, you need to take into consideration that a day on Mercury is not the same as a day on Earth.

All in all, I'm saying that action in the universe implies that it is not static and that means time is passing. However, time is completely relative to the one who is measuring it.

Answer 3

Plausible, according the Steven Hawking, a black hole is strong enough to pull in everything incuding light. A black whole is infinite gravity. Infinite mass times infinite density. Unmeasurable. Inside of a black hole within the center, time stops, everything of this world ceases to exsist. All mass is concentrated on a single point infinitely small. This is relative to the forming of our universe. Help at all?

Answer 4

no. time marches on with or without man kind