Does time exist?

Can't all time exist at once?

We all know that time, physically, is the 4th dimension of space. Time is elastic, and can be warped by gravity. That sort of time (probably) exists. But we human beings are very deluded about time - we think of time as going from past to the future. This is the common sense view. But, as I'm sure somebody has already said, there is no such thing as "universal" time - time is different for everybody. Time is slower for people moving than for those at rest.

Just a few incoherent thoughts.

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Originally Posted by Loki

Can't all time exist at once?

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Joke: God invented time so everything doesn't happen all at once.

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Originally Posted by Loki

...time is different for everybody.

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Until you die. Then it's the same for everyone -- the end. (Unless you believe Krishna's claim in the Bhagavad-Gita that nothing ever really dies, it's just converted to a different form.)

Time and space make up a ball - the space/time continuum.

God is everything within and outside this ball, which is why He experiences it all at once.

We humans live life chronologically, however. Our little brains couldn't handle much else.

Countess

Well this might be silly but one thing I've always noticed and contested is when people say "the hour by my watch is right." How can hours be right? They ARE a convention...

As for time existing well... I can't say with certainty...things do decay after a ...long time, but I also liked the St. Augustin view... But again, there is all the relativity thing related to the hours issue I mentioned above...

milton erickson master hypnotist utilized hypnotic phenomenon called time distortion to make time go slower to heal symptoms and "cure patients"

watch your language. The words you speak influence your thinking. The controller of word and language controls thought and though controls reality, and beware of those who say there is not enough time.

only associate with those who have infinite time to do everything right, do all necessary due diligence. if there is not enough time for something, then make time. create time. expand time. time maximization. time for love, time for money, time for love, time for fun, time for work, time for play.

who are the masters of time? Today, I think businesses are the masters.

There is a thing in philosophy called cultural relativity, cultural relativism. One of the aspects of a culture is the processing of time. I went from japan to thailand, and one of the first things i noticed was the "speed". It was very entrancing.

I don't like to feel rushed. That is the skill of lawyers and salesmen. Never rush yourself on an important business deal. Maximize time. You are right, it is all in your head. They promote the myth of scarcity, but everyone has had to fight to be free.

africans have a different sense of time than europeans. We are out of mythic time. Culture goes through cycles, divine, heroic and urban. we are in the urban epoch, alas. It is too absurd.

I am kind of crazy, but I just wish we were in the mythic, heroic stage. I am probalby going to go back to thailand, but not before mastering time, and maximizing time. At work I can't wait till my time is up. that is no way to spend a life. 1/3 of life is at work, working to make someone else money. Time is money, they say.

Time moves differently in everyone's heads. The faster you do something, go over something, the more your mind can make a pattern of it. that's called fast filia. Read "time for a change" by bandler, richard. Let things come to you. Read The Force by Wilde, Stuart. Do the exercises. Read Canstenada, Carlos.

Watch the predicates of time in your language-

quickly, slowly, on time, hurry, now, then..

you must have proper time to prepare. if you don't have time to prepare, if you don't give yourself time, you will not succeed. no hurry

Too bad that you only say what everyone thinks, and not what we do not already know. A true genius makes it obvious when it is obvious after the fact.

Time does exist. There is time between the sun's circlution. We age as time passes. If there were no time we wouldn't get older. Time is there. Just wish we could all apreciate it more.

Time is relation between matter, matter is energy, energy is space.
If there is no matter there is no space and there would be no time.
At the begining there was not the void, there was nothing.
Nature opose nothing.
So in a frame of time nothing can not exist and you exist in a frame of time.
Holistic.
I know nothing, and can always be wrong.

Hypothetically speaking:
There are two rooms --nothing moves in one room; everything moves in the next. No matter how much space can be covered in the second room and no matter how still everyhting is in the first the same amount of time goes by each to each.
Most of you are treating time as a measurment unit for distance covered in empty space. This cognitive line of reasoning leads to human perception of distance covered. The truth is, for high action, time only SEEMS to go by more quickly than it does for low action. Truely there is no way of measuring time in the first room. However, the hypothetical clock in the hallway ticks on a single steady pace that dominates the concept of time in both rooms.
As I said in the first page ... St. Augustine covers this issue quite well in book 11 of his Conffessions. The "dimension" ideal of time is a result of our cognitive placement on the subject: time seems to have the (sort of) personality of a seperate dimension only because it is easiest to understand it that way. If we simply try not to understand it it will become clear that there is no moveing time. Only the things that human brains place in time move.
As the past no longer is (back to Augustine) and the future has not yet taken place, time is only a thought. A thought that exists inside our brains and no other place. It is there because it makes the world an easier place to understand.

In my opinion i don't think there is time.
Men invented time in order to help explain the world he lived in, in order to make order and sense in to it.
I do not who was the first who gave time it's definition as we all relate to it this days but i think that when he invented this concept alot of stuff became clear to him.
There are a lot of ways to look on the subject of time and i'm sure there will be a lot more.
Just an opinion of a pondering little Tree..

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Originally Posted by DaniS

Time does exist. There is time between the sun's circlution. We age as time passes. If there were no time we wouldn't get older. Time is there.

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Time is not absolute. If humans lived on another planet in a different solar system, a "year" would be different than earth (since time is a function of gravity bending space-time continuum, according to relativity theory.) In that case, the human body and aging would probably change.

Likewise, if a human lived in the zero gravity of a spaceship on a long voyage to a distant star, his lifespan might be much longer. Or shorter if his body couldn't adapt to zero gravity (which appears more likely.)

What we call time is an earth-bound concept. It doesn't apply elsewhere in the universe.

Expressed as a noun, time is a temporal continuum, independent of spatial considerations, and measured in terms of successively progressing events from past to present to future.

Time has existed, time does exist, time will continue to exist until it no longer has cause to exist. (And not a moment longer) ;)

Time itself, is an absolute. Distortions of time is a human concept whereby the intervals between one observable event and the next are merely effects of forces imposed on these events, not time itself. Remove the human element and events are no longer observable, and consequently, not measurable.

The space-time continuum is a system made up of four measures. Three spatial and one temporal through which any event or physical object can be located.

But time is not a noun.
Furthermore, stationary objects can exist perfectly well without it. Its the annimate objects that require time ... even then it is only required as a measuring device. It measures the movement of the object, not the object itself. Therefor objects are independent of the abstract concept of time.

You know, this is one of those philosophic discussions that have no basis in common sense. If there is no time, then I will never die. Yeay!!!

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Originally Posted by Tis

Expressed as a noun, time is a temporal continuum, independent of spatial considerations, and measured in terms of successively progressing events from past to present to future.

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That's linear time. What about circular time -- a cycle of repeating events?

And time is NOT absolute in relativity theory nor quantum mechanics, which offer the best understanding we have of how the universe works.