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Do you think that time is an is real?
Read this, then think about it, them tell me what you think.
When youre having fun, time flies. Waiting in a traffic jam, not so much. Your birthday was last month, and your mortgage payment is due in a few days. The fact that we perceive time is certainly no illusion. But is it really there, or is it something we invented?
Early on in human history, we decided to start measuring the days and weeks, and eventually hours, minutes and seconds. Time was useful in organizing society, planting crops and getting ready for dates. Things worked extremely well until scientists started muddling it all up.
In the 17th century, English scientist Isaac Newton was pretty sure time existed as a universal constant. But in 1908, Hermann Minkowski, expanding on one of Einsteins ideas on the relationship between space and time, suggested a space-time continuum. This theory held that space and time were inextricably mixed, with all events occurring along the same timeline. Einstein presented his theory of general relativity not long after this and proposed that time is but an illusion.
Around the same time (if you believe in time, that is), the field of quantum mechanics grew out of an effort to explain the relationship between matter and energy. This presented a little problem for scientists trying to create a single, unified theory to account for the universe and its component parts. Quantum mechanics requires the existence of time to work. General relativity does not.
So tell me what you think.
Hope you didn't get to mind f*cked :p
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Read this, then think about it, them tell me what you think.
When youre having fun, time flies. Waiting in a traffic jam, not so much. Your birthday was last month, and your mortgage payment is due in a few days. The fact that we perceive time is certainly no illusion. But is it really there, or is it something we invented?
Early on in human history, we decided to start measuring the days and weeks, and eventually hours, minutes and seconds. Time was useful in organizing society, planting crops and getting ready for dates. Things worked extremely well until scientists started muddling it all up.
In the 17th century, English scientist Isaac Newton was pretty sure time existed as a universal constant. But in 1908, Hermann Minkowski, expanding on one of Einsteins ideas on the relationship between space and time, suggested a space-time continuum. This theory held that space and time were inextricably mixed, with all events occurring along the same timeline. Einstein presented his theory of general relativity not long after this and proposed that time is but an illusion.
Around the same time (if you believe in time, that is), the field of quantum mechanics grew out of an effort to explain the relationship between matter and energy. This presented a little problem for scientists trying to create a single, unified theory to account for the universe and its component parts. Quantum mechanics requires the existence of time to work. General relativity does not.
So tell me what you think.
Hope you didn't get to mind f*cked :p
~RJS_MODs
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Believe it or not but i think about this theory almost everyday and it confuses me every time and i just cannot get my head around it fully!
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ExtraCopy wrote Believe it or not but i think about this theory almost everyday and it confuses me every time and i just cannot get my head around it fully!
Same here really I end up gett really confused alot of the time but it is some thing to think about when you're bored
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Time is real.
Look into something called Entropy, or the Second law of Thermodynamics.
It states that as time increases, things become more disordered.
Time is the measure of change in the Universe.
It's its own dimension, just like space.
It bends and contorts around objects with high gravity.
Even if humans didn't perceive it, time would still exist, it just wouldn't have causality.
Look into something called Entropy, or the Second law of Thermodynamics.
It states that as time increases, things become more disordered.
Time is the measure of change in the Universe.
It's its own dimension, just like space.
It bends and contorts around objects with high gravity.
Even if humans didn't perceive it, time would still exist, it just wouldn't have causality.
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Well...
I have always had a very different view on time as different country's have different times so i always think where did time come from and it come from the stars and direction so i think once time was used differently, i think time is a mess to be honest i don't know how it come around and who used it first
I have always had a very different view on time as different country's have different times so i always think where did time come from and it come from the stars and direction so i think once time was used differently, i think time is a mess to be honest i don't know how it come around and who used it first
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mind blow to the to the max, i will have to say.
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RJS_MODs wrote
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I did
I can see where you're coming from
However, I cant say I agree
I believe time exists as a 'natural entity' not something we perceive
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Technically yes. "Time" is there and will always be there, we have just found our own way of measuring it. It's like measuring mass. Our society is primarily composed of standardization.
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I say time we go by here is just something we invented. By things like space time can be real. Things like the past. You did that at a different time than now. You're going to do something in at a different time from now.
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we did make time up so technically time is just a solved math problem
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