If time doesn't actually exist and is an illusion, then you never really die. Your thoughts?

Question

JP: You sound like Julian Barbour.

Answer 1

Perhaps. Time is an illusion, all we ever really measure is change. In fact the Wheeler-Dewitt equation ( integrating Shroedinger's equation for the universe with respect to time ) is timeless. Clearly death events exist from an external viewpoint. Do they exist from an internal viewpoint, that is the issue you raise. I like Julian Barbour's work by the way some of his research is very good.

The ordering of time, seems to be related to our consciousness. If you reordered space-time events with respect to our proper-time you would never notice that anything had changed.

Answer 2

Since spacetime is itself static and unchanging, the flow of time is only extant intrinsically, not extrinsically. Extrinsically, the formation of the universe, my birth, life, death, and the final state of the universe all happened simultaneously.

I was born 13.7 billion years ago, I lived 13.7 billion years ago, I died 13.7 billion years ago.

I'm just now aware of it.

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RabidBunyup:

Actually, time is an arrow. There is a known quantum reaction that runs differently depending on which way time is flowing. In fact, it's this breaking of time-symmetry that may be why matter dominates the universe.

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Meat:

I should hope I sound like anyone with whom I agree, when I speak on that which I am in agreement with them. :)

Answer 3

Time exists, just not in the way we perceive it. It has no "arrow," at least not one that we've mathematically proven. No one understands why time only seems to move from one moment to the next.

We do really die; this can be observed.

EDIT: J.P.: You win, you know more about physics than I do.
:P

Answer 4

Believe me, you die.

Life as we know it will cease in the universe eventually.

Time seems to me like numbers or language. They are methods to understand the universe using abstract concepts.

Answer 5

Time is a conceptual framework of existence.

We will die whether we use time or not to try to conceptualize dying.

Answer 6

Sounds reasonable to me but I am Buddhist.

Answer 7

My thought is that if you start with a false statement you will be able to conclude anything from it, even the greatest nonsense.

Answer 8

time exist in the natural world not on the spiritual!!!

Answer 9

if time doesnt exist then everything is now including the state of death.

Answer 10

Then "Never" doesn't exist either. You really die.