Is time an illusion?

Is time an illusion?
a.. 19 January 2008
IT IS the invisible presence that governs your world. Trailing you like an
unshakeable shadow, it ticks and tocks incessantly - you can sense it in
your heartbeat, in the rising and setting of the sun, and in your daily rush
to make meetings, trains and deadlines. It brings order to our lives through
the categories of past, present and future.

Time. There is nothing with which we are so familiar, and yet when you try
to pin it down you find only a relentless torrent of questions. Why does
time appear to flow? What makes it different from space? What exactly is it?
It's enough to make your neurons misfire, then sizzle and smoke.

You are not alone. Physicists have long struggled to understand what time
really is. In fact, they are not even sure it exists at all. In their quest
for deeper theories of the universe, some researchers increasingly suspect
that time is not a fundamental feature of nature, but rather an artefact of
our perception. One group has recently found a way to do quantum physics
without invoking time, which could help pave a path to a time-free "theory
of everything". If correct, the approach suggests that time really is an
illusion, and that we may need to rethink how the universe at large works.

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg19726391.500-is-time-an-illusion.html

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Like I have always said time is irrelevant. Now there are two people saying
it. . . . .

Well, it is 'time' to go.




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