Is perceiving "time" as a "dimension" real or unreal ?

Question

Possibly we should also consider sequence and pattern in our "space-time" cosmic reality.

Thank you new YA Member Sergio. It is good to have serious thinkers on here. Deferring my views on "time" until others answer, I will now briefly comment on the electron which will soon be discovered to be a composite particle containing always exactly 100 smaller ultimate particles. Wave effects are just secondary. Example, a heavy rain with a strong crosswind gives the appearance of waves or sheets of water, but we know all rain-drops are just particles. Real Newtonian physics will return and will be much expanded. Present entrophy and quantum uncertainties will slowly disappear. A steady state, larger, older cosmos will be detected by our astronomers and cosmologists. Sergio, please email me at my Profile here to continue.

Time and space are inseparable only in the time-space creations. Space is more real than time. The absolute of time is Eternity; the absolute of space is Paradise.

[Jesus Christ teaches in AD23] "There are seven different conceptions of space as it is conditioned by time. Space is measured by time, not time by space. The confusion of the scientist grows out of failure to recognize the reality of space. Space is not merely an intellectual concept of the variation in relatedness of universe objects. Space is not empty, and the only thing man knows which can even partially transcend space is mind. Mind can function independently of the concept of the space-relatedness of material objects. Space is relatively and comparatively finite to all beings of creature status. The nearer consciousness approaches the awareness of seven cosmic dimensions, the more does the concept of potential space approach ultimacy. But the space potential is truly ultimate only on the absolute level."

Answer 1

Time is a dimension only of the mind, not of cosmic identity. The cosmos, having no beginning and no end, knows no time. Only a consciousness capable of connecting pasts with presents and with possible futures can use time as a dimension. Otherwise, for all creatures lower than H. sapiens, time is, as Loren Eisely called it, an "eternal present." BTW, to NBM, I did not see your answer before I answered. Good thinking on the "perceptual" v. "dimensional" idea.

Answer 2

I, probably, won't answer your question. But I don't really think time is real. I believe time is a feature of how our brains perceive the world.

Either way, we perceive universe as a three dimensional thing and time continuum. To me time is rather different from other three dimensions because it feels really solid, constant and independent. We can't travel in time.

What I think happens in reality (and I mean real reality and how it looks to us), is that all dimensions are bound together and there's no here and there, and there's no past or present.

I once read an article that, in my opinion, very elegantly explained why sometimes light acts as waves and sometimes as particles. Basically it said that elementary particles can exist and past, present and future. Maybe even at the same time.

Sorry for getting into these details. Everyone saw that experiment where we shoot light through two slots and have a bunch of stripes on a background. Well, the same works for electrons not just photons. We have electrons shoot one after another that create a pattern of stripes on the background and act like a wave, rather then like golf balls thrown through slots. And when we shoot only one electron trough through the slot.

The thing is how does the electron know that there are other electrons coming after it and he should act like a wave. And how does it know that it's the only one electron launched into the slots and it should act like a particle.

Well, that article I talked about earlier said that it's possible that elementary particles exist in multiple times at the same time and can interfere with itself like waves when we do this experiment. While in out reality it looks like electrons know what will happen to them in future.

Answer 3

Time if the ultimate dimension. And since there is no theory or proof of something known as a "pattern in our 'space-time' cosmic reality," I suggest that you no longer tax that brain of yours looking for something that has such a simple answer as you question posed: Time the real and only dimension o life.
Now there may well be other dimensions of time that we have yet to experience. But, once again, that lies in the unknown.

Answer 4

That's funny. The last time I talked to you, you were on the right. Have you changed politics, or is it that the left side is controlled by the right brain and the right side by the left hemisphere or are we going in and out, back and forth? Everything seems to be at least dual. Two eyes, hemisperes of the brain, sides of the body and sides of an issue. Now they are saying energy is going in and out of existence, maybe into time and out of it like a pulsing. Into 'reality' and out into awareness. The eyes only see 24 frames a second, what does a mechanical meter see? Time may come in and out also. As if new information or a new perspective is like a guage of time. All thoughts possible at once, but viewed in different combinations. I wouldn't consider that except it doesn't make any sense to the left brain, so, paradoxically, it could be true and not true, depending on your perspective, the viewpoint you choose to look from, like looking from the right eye or the left. Not much of a difference for the eyes and yet it gives us depth perception. How much more so when the brain looks at two sides of an issure. An apparent contradiction, but only another side. You might could look at both at once, but that tires the eyes. They have 2D pictures that the mind is able to see as 2D or 3D. Maybe God is better at seeing 2 sides at once, but it's a weird experience for us. I notice when I see the 2D image in 3D it's odd, even weird, but I get a sense of seeing something from both sides at once, that is processing the image from both eyes at once. It's weird trying to think of both sides of an issue at once, also, but it may give us a 3rd view or 3D view of reality instead of our usual idea that something is one way or the other. That's sort of left brain thinking instead of seeing the question and answer together. We look at one or the other. So that leaves us with looking at time and then no time instead of both at once. I may have seen 'now' in a whole new light, I'm not sure. When I lsomeone elses point of view I've been so captivated by it as to lose, similar to forgeting, mine. What if we saw your's, mine and ours by seeing yours and mine at the same time. Add all the people and things in the world and we do get a lot of dimensions or sides, almost infinit and yet much of us is the same. And we pass each other going back and forth. Haven't we all been either left or right from time to time or flip depending on the issue? Matter is no different, different sides, dimensions and in one thing then another. Time may take other forms including going into and out of time or being time and then not, canceling each other. Einstein said that, if it "makes sense at first, there's no hope for it." At least this has hope then. lol

Answer 5

I believe that time is inherent to particular dimensions, but isn't gauged the same way from one dimension to another. Paradise is a dimension where time does not exist.

Time is real when it is used to relate to a length of stay within a particular dimension. The existence of a particular dimension can be timeless in itself.

Answer 6

Having just reread Barbour's "End of Time" I am convinced time is not 'dimensional' but rather perceptual pattern. I would not be so certain about the Newton reference. William Day's 'Holistic Physics' rings true as well - as a possible new paradigm.

Answer 7

How real is a person's perception anyway. I believe that a person can perceive time as a dimension, but that is not an objective absolute for all people.

Good Luck!!!

Answer 8

different species of living beings has different perceptions of time, even humans of different ages faces the same situation. it is a matter of internal clock, rather than real or unreal. considering all species travel thru space with the same speed, on earth. let`s say "time dimension", has a real perception on individual ground. each individual get`s his own reality. u can check on yourself: sometimes time is passing by faster than u think and other times seems endless. got it ?

Answer 9

It is most definitely real. We must record time in order to know the sequence in which their were changes in other dimensions.

Answer 10

I dont understand a thing you said in the cadditional information but all i know is i live in the present and i die in the future and in between its my life