Re: The existance of time as anything other than a mere "concept"
- From: "Nick" <macromitch@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 17 Oct 2005 20:26:02 -0700
John2005 wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I would like to start a discussion with the forum members related to
> the concept of time, and it's existance as anything other than a mere
> concept.
>
> I believe that time is merely a "concept" that we use as a tool, to
> compare the occurrence of events. For example, the earth orbits the
> sun, and we call this one year, the earth makes one revolution on it's
> axis and we call this a day. A machine called a clock causes an arm to
> rotate 360 degrees at a certain constant rate, and we call this a
> minute or an hour.
>
> With time, it seems all we are doing is taking the passage of one
> event, (i.e., Earth orbit, clock-arm rotation, the rate at which a
> Cesium atom cycles or absorbs and releases energy, etc.) and then
> comparing it to another event, (i.e., the length of a workday, the
> speed of your car, how long it takes to cook your dinner etc.. We are
> just using the "concept" of time as a tool. We use the passage of one
> event as a reference point, and compare other events to it.
>
> In my mind, when people talk about "time travel" there is really
> nothing to travel back into, or to travel forward into, since time is
> only a concept. Likewise, when people talk about an object like a
> planet warping "space-time", again, I don't see how time, i.e.,
> something that exists only as a concept, can be "warped" or manipulated
> in a physical way.
>
> In physics, is time considered a physical entity that is moving, and/or
> something that can be moved through ? Is time travel considered
> possible, and is time considered to be a dimension and/or physical
> entity ?
>
> Has anyone ever proven that time is anything other than a concept? Has
> it been proven that time is indeed a "dimension" or even something that
> has some form of energy?
>
> I do not think it is even possible to "prove" that time exists as
> anything other than a concept within our minds.
>
> Time appears to be nothing more than that which separates events, based
> on our own time reference measures.
>
> I would appreciate other viewpoints and feedback on this topic.
>
> Thanks
> John
We aint measuring nothin' john.
Time slows down everywhere in gravity and you can move into it!!!
How's you like that?
Cheers. -- Light Falls --
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