Monday, April 12, 2010

Time

Q: Is time real? What is it? Does it "flow"?

What is time, is it a measurement of the course of a day or week, or is time the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another. Generally, philosophers and scientists have studied time for 2,500 years and nevertheless many issues remain to be resolved. For example, who is the chief discoverer or creator of time? Was it the Neolithic cave dwellers (Neanderthals) or has time always existed since the origin of the planets and of the universes? Who really knows but as time continues to advance or progress into the future, humans tend to age, structures begin to deteriorate and falter, and the earth ages but also regenerates. To answer the primary question, time is real because there is enough conclusive evidence to support what time really is. Time progresses our life as human beings while it flows constantly in a smooth transition.

However one question that I have pondered over many years, is that why is there time and does time ever end? Will there ever be a moment when time will stand still and if there will possibly will be, does that mean the existence of human beings and earth come to an end, expiring? Time is more of a measurement of days, weeks, and years that humans have invented to navigate a complete day (starting with) over the course of 24 hours and branching into larger units (days, weeks, months, years, decades etc.). The concept of the “length of a day” was already implemented by Gods (religion) or by the big bang theory (science) which originated the template to develop a time-related system. On a daily basis, time does flow because if it did not, time would stand still while nothing would progress in an orderly fashion. To analyze the flowage of time there are two theories that physicists have proposed in order to answer how time flows. First and foremost is that the flow is an illusion, the product of a faulty metaphor. Time exists, things change, but time does not flow objectively, although there may well be some objective feature of our brains that causes us to believe we are experiencing a flow of time; but in that case time flows only in a subjective sense of the term. Secondly, the second theory of time flow implies that time low is objective, a feature of our mind-independent reality that is to be found in, say, today scientific laws, or, if it has been missed there, then in future scientific laws. With these conclusive theories which are factual (scientifically), how can time not be real and most importantly if physicists have found answers to prove that time flow is real, how would it be false?

1.How can time be false (scientifically and non-scientifically)?
2.If ‘”time flow” did not exist, what would happen?

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