Does time really exist or is it only in our minds?

Question

Sure we age, but the clock was not always around right?
Thank you so much for your answers :)

Answer 1

There are two types of time . Subjective and objective.Objective time is what we see everyday on our watches and clocks and is always constant.Subjective time is more fun,Its our own sense of time . This time is more elastic, It expands and contracts according to our moods and feelings at the time . The expression , Time flies when you are enjoying yourself , comes from our own subjective sense of time .Skilled sportsmen have the ability to slow down their subjective times , so giving them slightly more objective time.
I'm learning to juggle 7 balls at the moment.To an onlooker , the balls are moving faster than they do to me .I have to slow down my subjective time in order to catch the balls . Otherwise it all falls apart.

Answer 2

Most physicists do not believe time flows from future into past. Instead they accept the idea that events merely exist in spacetime. This idea is called the ‘block universe' idea; the term was coined by William James. Advocates of the block universe commonly that the notion of time's flow is simply a mistake or else that it is a subjective feature of psychological time to be explained, say, by a person's having more memories and more information at later times.

In 1952, in his book Relativity, Einstein writes:


Since there exist in this four dimensional structure [space-time] no longer any sections which represent "now" objectively, the concepts of happening and becoming are indeed not completely suspended, but yet complicated. It appears therefore more natural to think of physical reality as a four dimensional existence, instead of, as hitherto, the evolution of a three dimensional existence.

Answer 3

Oh, I have thought long and hard about this before. I think time is real, but it's simpler than we make it out to be. When we think of time- we think of clocks, schedules, and minutes... Time is just the difference between yesterday and today.

STAR! That is a really good question...

Answer 4

I guess that would make time irrevalant if it does not exist. We're only on this planet for a short while, when we're gone no one will really miss us but our family. We could go the way the dinos went or even worse. Who really knows what the future of man is.

Answer 5

Time exists for us on this earth and the universe is expanding according to scientist as time passes. In eternity there is forever and ever. Time is a curse in this fallen world. It is a blessing to live a long life but we will not live forever here. The only one who can control time on earth is God . I have heard accounts of God stopping time for a purpose of helping people spiritually.

Answer 6

I say yes because it can be measured like "meet me at the mall at 5pm "& we couldn't measure distance till we created a way to ( we dont all live at the same spot so there is distance)

& then again I have no inner concept of time or its passage so I could be wrong & I'm always late for the mall meeting... :)

Answer 7

hmmm well the sun does rise and it does set

we just tranferred the light into hours

and everything has to be done on time

before clocks they still referred to the sun - when the sun is highest in the sky...

time can be useful and organised... but life isnt organised...

just go with the flow but dont waste a second...

every second counts =]

Answer 8

They used to judge time by the sun, and sky.

I think we depend on time too much, [everyone is always in a rush these days, deadlines at work etc;]if we didn't think about it then I think society as a whole would slow down and relax

Answer 9

it really exists. just because the clock was not always around, doesnt mean time didnt continue.

Answer 10

It depends on how many times our planet circles the sun. Remember before we had digital clocks? They didn't have a name for the old kind. They had to make up "analogue."