Question

I have a complicated question that may confuse or anger some people.

Answer 1

I am having trouble understanding time.

Answer 2

From the way I see it time is just a man made concept that doesnt actually exist.

Answer 3

So something like Time travel would be impossible because you would not be able to travel through a concept...

Is this correct?

Answer 4

Yet if time doesn't exist then what are we basing our lives off of?

Answer 5

How are we documenting the different things that happen through history?

Answer 6

interesting but its

Answer 7

What how?

Answer 8

Relative time can be measured.

Answer 9

this is one question IMHO that is guaranteed to lead to a sore head if considered properly.

what astonishes me is that the leading experts think that all of time is already laid out and is somehow accessible, the past as we remember/label it and the future that we have yet to experience. quite in the same way that space is laid out.

but time definitely exists and is not just some mathematical construct used to square off some equation somewhere. it is linked with the second law of thermodynamics and in that sense time *must be*. human perception is a major limiting factor in a lot of this stuff.

Answer 10

SO what your saying is that time exists because the concept of time makes it exist........
But that would mean that a concept could basically create itself. and that time exists because it is time

Answer 11

I was thinking that maybe we are wrong in out assumptions of time

Answer 12

Maybe we are close to understanding something that originated as a concept but is actually something that defines the world as a law. However We are unable to discover this thing called "TIME" because like you said human perception does not allow us to understand this new "law"

Answer 13

how would motion work without time? and that argument has i think to work both ways. motion, time, space are all part of the same thing.

then, the direction of time - one directional - comes from the notion of entropy. our perceptions are actually very tied into ideas of entropy without or ever really thinking about it. you'd be amazed if you came back from vacation and your lawn was shorter/tidier than when you left!

so maybe entropy is like the really fundamental thing in this. i have no idea, really! but it's interesting

Answer 14

motion cannot work without time, therefore life cannot really exist.
the 3D space-time reality requires time as a fundamental factor

Answer 15

People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.

Answer 16

Don't even, I know that is a reference to something but I am not sure what (maybe Dr. Who) so don't try that with me lol @BloomLocke367

Answer 17

it is Doctor Who XD I had to..

Answer 18

@icecreamman i see you looking a this buddy so you have to respond lol

Answer 19

reading this but idk who doctor who is but lol this is confuzzling me a bit. time is to measure how long something is tho right?

Answer 20

Doctor Who is a show that deals with time travel.

Time measures the .... well thats kinda my point what does time measure. lol it measures time right? whelp I don't know

Answer 21

maybeif like einstein were here we would understand this concept better

Answer 22

Not really he dealt more in Physics and some mathematics and did'nt take a philosophical point on things in life.

Answer 23

oh then maybe aristotle?

Answer 24

there you go

Answer 25

:D

Answer 26

Lol but according to this discussion time travel is impossible sooo That is definitely not happening.

Answer 27

do u believe in time travel?

Answer 28

Well that is what I was discussing such a thing as time travel would be impossible because time is a man made concept that doesn't actually exist. and yet without are whole existence is invalid.

Answer 29

I believe that if you're moving fast enough, yes.... and if you think about it, in a way, if you fly west... you go back in time... think about the time difference

Answer 30

what do you mean taht it is invalid. its just that it was wayback then and we cannot get back to wayback then

Answer 31

Ohhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We base Time off of the movements of the sun so according to Bloom Locke time is incorrect becuase the sun is what we base the idea of time off of . So for time travel to succeed we would have to turn the sun and the whole galaxy in the opposite direction.

Answer 32

But this would not actually propel us back in time it would just make the clocks useless

Answer 33

that is correct i believe :D

Answer 34

lol so the traditional idea of bringing us back to world war 2 is impossible but actually turning back the concept of time we have created all we have to do is make the galaxy spin in reverse :)

Answer 35

simple right? lol

Answer 36

dang so complicated XD

Answer 37

makes my head whirl lol

Answer 38

No thats the galaxy :D LOL

Answer 39

lol that horrible nerd joke

Answer 40

XDXDXDXDXD

Answer 41

According to Einsteins theory of relativity it's not possible to go back in time, but it is possible to move forward in time relative to the earth, provided you can reach a speed that is close to light. So you would accelerate towards the nearest star, say Alpha Centauri, reach 99% of light speed, stay at that speed for 6 months then do a u-turn and come back and you will find that 8 years had passed on earth compared to your 1 year on a space ship.

Answer 42

read some science, say "a brief history of time"