Is time real?

Question

I have thoughts, that maybe time isn't real.
Who says that time is moving forwards? How come time seems to move faster and slower? Time could be moving backwards. I'd also be interested to see if there are any other measures of time that dont fit in the the conventional seconds and minutes and all that stuff.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Time is abstract. It is used by man for convenience as a kind of yardstick. Relativity. Was there any such thing as time before the creation of the universe and will there be time when man and the universe become extinct? Of course not! Look at the use of AD and BC simply a yardstick by which to measure. Time on earth is calculated as follows: Caesium clocks measure time by counting the tick-tock cycles of atoms of the metallic element cesium. But the cycles are not pendulum swings; instead, they are the extremely fast vibrations of the atoms when exposed to microwaves in a vacuum. As the microwaves hit, the outermost electron jumps from a lower orbit to a higher orbit and then back, absorbing and releasing packets of light energy that can be measured. The exact speed of this vibration is 9,192,631,770 cycles per second, and that is how a second was defined in 1967. It was the first such definition based not on the earth’s motion but on the behavior of atoms. Time to go.

Answer 2

Time is more like a place. When you move from one place to another - you really cant go back. You can go there again but not back. Moving forward? Well there is a progression through time much as there is movement through space. Time, space, matter, enegy - all infinite. They can change but but begin or end.

A human has a perception of what time is and how we move through it. We already know that time passes at a different rate in some relation to the speed at which we are travelling through space - so they must be intertwined. Einstein had an understanding of this but I'm not smart enough to comprehend it.

I have felt that time and space are far more closely related than we can begin to understand. As you might know - our galaxy - the Milky Way is moving through space at a very high rate - then our solar system is moving within the galaxy pretty darn quick. The earth is moving within the solar system pretty rapidly also and then the earth is spinning and finally we are (sometimes - when is nothing good on TV) moving around on the surface of the earth.

I just wonder if all of these movements stopped - would then time stop? Fun to think about but just a bit hard to test.

I think the faster and slower you mention are just your (and my) individual - very subjective - appreciation for time at any given (time?). Lol.

30 minutes in a Drs office is an eternity but 3 hours watching a good movie passes in (seconds?).

Interesting area though.

I think you are

Answer 3

Of course it's real. Some things could never happen if there were no such thing as time - like motion, or any kind of events.

You might be wondering if it's just in the human mind; the way we perceive a world that might not depend on a rule something like time. But there's lots of evidence here on Earth that time was going by before humans even lived on Earth - the fossil record, for example, shows evidence of changes over great spans of time.

As for it moving faster or slower (which it can do, according to Einstein, depending on your speed), that's just your perception of time changing, not time itself. Generally, time seems to drag on when we are bored or unhappy and to pass quickly when we are busy or having fun. This could have a lot to do with the fact that we are distracted from time's passing while busy, and preoccupied with how to better fill our time when we're bored.

Answer 4

The fact that time "seems to move faster or slower" is a perceptional thing... that is personal and different according to what we are feeling. 'ooh dentist in two minutes....brbrbr' or 'oooh birthday present in two minutes' .....
but as for your proposal that time could be moving backwards... how would we experience that..... I can't get my head round that.. but time is also fictional and completely thought up by humans. the hours and minutes anyway...
I sometimes wish the world was without time and would just exist... we are very timebound these days...

Answer 5

I always thought that if God has a sense of humor, when we are reincarnated, it would always be in the past so anything we learned from those future lives would be worthless in the "here and now."

You are not the first to notice how artificial time feels. It is likely that a supreme being gave us time as training wheels for the universe. We can't handle everything, let alone everything happening all at once, so we get to put it into serial form so we can handle experience a little bit at a time.

So time really doesn't.... oops, gotta go!
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Answer 6

Time is just a term humans use to measure how slow ad fast.

Time does not move. In fact, time might not even exist. If it does move, then it moves at a constant rate. Sometimes you feel that it's slower, sometimes you feel that it's faster. But it is just you.

Time is measure in different era. In the olden days, time is measure by instruments such as the sundial.

And I believe time doesn't move at all.

Answer 7

Interesting question - I would have to agree with those who talk of this in terms of perception.. I just spent a very long hour in a dentists chair which even shortly afterwards faded to a brief memory which of course is briefer as time passes from the event.. but I think in addition to perception there are elements of memory involved as well.. We have so many time saving devices and most have so little time.. I think this is an important personal question as people should spend more time analyzing what they want to do with their lives and time and less so following the herds who do not consider that time is the stuff of life..

Answer 8

Time is nothing more than a manmade thing designed to regulate our daily lives. Without time as was 1,000 years ago the passage of "time" was observed by the changing seasons, the moons cycle and folklore. Things can only go forward in the structure of the universe. What you may ppercieve as a slowing of time is nothing more than your mind working.The clock ticks whatever....

Answer 9

Time is just a measurment like miles or kilometers. So, it all depends what you really believe. It's real in the sense that it probably dominates your day, but the idea of time probably doesn't even exist in anything else other than the human brain.

Answer 10

time is relevant to space itself, the farther you move away from earth the slower time moves, a statement of which"time seems to move slower and faster at some times" is just percieving the workd around you as an illusion of misperceptions. there is a point where if you move far away from earth enough you will be nearly standiong srtill in time itself. time is no illusion. time is a fact. time is "REAL".