WE move and TIME stands still.?

Question

So why do we basically perceive time as passing?

Answer 1

We use perception as the way to know this place. Because of this use of perception there are some basic illusions here. There really in no time, there is in reality only now. There really is no space, there is only here. We are not moving because there is no where to go. Everything that seems to be outside of us is really a projection that we in turn use the senses to perceive & give the illusion of out there. A good book to read is "The Holographic Universe", by Michael Talbot.

Answer 2

Since we exist within time, we can't really understand time itself. Time and space are, in many ways, inseperable. Space describes all objects for a particular point of time. Time is constantly increasing. We attempt to quantify time into years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds, but we perceive it differently depending on what we are doing (if you are distracted, you perceive that time passes faster because you update how much time has passed less often than when you are idle). No matter what, time passes with or without us; in essence we are the ones standing still.

Answer 3

I see it the opposite of how you see it. Time is moving and we're basically standing still compared to the movement of time itself. Each moment is continually passing and without passing there is nothing.

Answer 4

Time is steadily and constantly moving us forward. We cannot make time stand still, slow it down, speed it up or turn back the hands of time. We have no choice but to keep moving forward.

Answer 5

Time is an illusion. Considered a concept or a measure. I think Einstein was right when he said that "the only reason for time is so that everything does not happen at once".

You should check out this film: What the bleep do we know?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399877/

Wikipedia has a long article on time:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time#Time_as_.22unreal.22

Answer 6

Time isn't standing still for me, I am getting older everyday.
Whether I move or not. Time is going on intil the end comes.

Answer 7

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hello love is sweat,
now you are getting into quantum physics?! lol
i like 'mediaphobia's answer above, where she says that if if there wasnt any time, everything would happen at once...
Time is a very weird and mind-bending concept once i start to think about it!

maybe time is a thing that we will always be unable to understand the concept of...
it may be that, in these human bodies of ours, we are stuck in a concept of time that is a strict one way street and which moves at a pre-determined speed at all times.

if you look into einstein's theory of relativity, you'll see that if you were to travel at the speed of light, then time would stand still (time would stop for as long as you travelled at that speed), so time doesnt always move at a constant speed...
time is considered to be another dimension in this universe (in addition to the dimensions of space), and it might be that we are always travelling through this dimension of time at a speed which we have no choice about, whereas in space, we have a choice about which direction & speed we move.

So you could say that we move through the dimension of time (which sits there, unchanging) but we would then have the perception of us standing still and time moving past us.
A bit like being on a train... are we moving through a world that is standing still, or is the train standing still, and the world moving past us?

I like to think of time in a way that helps me cope with life and death... let me explain...

it maybe that if we were more technologically advanced and more knowledgable, then we would be able to see different times from the same place, just as we can see all of space from one place (sort of).
If anyone standing outside our universe looked in, they would probably be able to see the entire history of the universe from their vantage point, just by looking around.

So i like to think, for myself, that anything that has ever happened will always be there... any moment in our lives will always exist, for ever, and if we knew how to see it, it would still be there. If an event has occurred (a moment in our lives), then it becomes a fact of history, a fact of time... that event will be there for all eternity, preserved in the depths of time and once it has happened, then nothing can change this, it can not un-happen or be undone. It is just a case of stepping outside the time dimension (death?) and seeing that each point in time lasts for eternity, and our loved one will always be there.

This helps me deal with the concept of life and death... it helps me with the thought of losing a loved one... the thought of 'forever' is too much for me too deal in relation to death, so i use these (slighty weird?) beliefs of mine to try to make more sense of it all.
time, life and death are very complex issues to address so it's hard to explain exactly what i mean but i hope i have made a good start!
keep on asking those questions!
zag :-)

Answer 8

time seem to stand still because it is infinate, like god.....as we grow older and older and move around......the it seems liek time is passing because we are getting older and the earth seems to not age as we do.....so yeah time is endless in our world

Answer 9

I think time is somthing we made up to help us understand better, because humans seem to need an answer to everything.

Answer 10

Time moves "forward" and it takes everything with it. That's why change is inevitable.