The Greatest Illusion

What is time? Is it simply a mathematical model which allows us to comprehend our physical universe? If not, where is it? Is it physical? Can you measure time in its subatomic form? How many feet does time have? Is "distance" a length or is it time?

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• time
• space
• particles
• cosmology
• universe
• physics
• big bang
• quantum
• classical

[youVSmee]

If "light-years is simply a DISTANCE, and has absolutely NOTHING to do with time, then what does the act of "motion" via speed have to do with the age of the universe? Think. If a light-second can be broken down into a finite zero and timeless state, then the "age of the universe" cannot be known at all.

[youVSmee]

If time is the act of motion, and the act of motion can be described as a dart in "motion", then, "freezing" time would be like "freezing a single frame" of a filmstrip. However, if you "freeze" a single "frame", then you have cancelled out the process of "motion", thereby destroying the act of motion, i.e. cancelling out the act of forward time.

Time nor space is physical. Space is what exists "between" two physical objects, not the object.

[youVSmee]

However, in order for us to make sense of this illusional act of time, which actually take place in "different" and individual "isolated frames", which we "weave together" into a "seamless" time of events. Time does not exist, and time is not something physical nor measureable like a physical measuring stick.

[youVSmee]

Time is simply the occurance of illusional spatial dimensions occuring within our own minds. So what are these illusional effects which we perceive as reality? Frame "1" is simply a different frame from "frame 2." There is no such things as "now" and "previous nows" in the subatomic world.

[youVSmee]

If you throw a rock towards a target, and freeze the "motion" of the rock in mid path, you can then "measure" the rocks frozen "position", but in return, you have lost the ability to measure the "momentum" of the following rocks path. The path and its momentum have been lost, therefore, unknown at the cost of knowing the 'frozen position."

[youVSmee]

The observation act of time, is not a sequential occurance of events, rather its a series of "nows" which create the illusional impression of sequential motion of time. Since time is a motion of time, it is impossible to describe freeze "motion" when there isn't any physical properties to "freeze' witin the framework of time.

[Bdnz]

If a civilisation existed where there was no sun (impossible, but this is hypothetical), then they'd have different means of measuring time - our means of MEASURING time is based on our sun. However its only a means to measure time passing. The presence of the sun or lack thereof has no impact on time itself, only how we choose to measure its passing. A species in another solar system would measure time in different cycles and units to us, but time isn't affected, just the means of measurement.

[Bdnz]

I understand you have some difficulty with some of the terminology as English is not your first language, so you've misinterpreted some meanings. "Light years" is a distance, which is represented by the distance that light can travel in a vacuum in a year. It a measurement of distance * time. Time exists just fine where there is no light. Atoms still decay (in fact, this is how our atomic clocks work). Our measurements of seconds, minutes, hours, etc, is simply our means of representation.

[JDFolk1]

Time is simply this. A tool for describing the position of a three dimensional object in the fourth dimension. It is another axis on a grid. Think of the "W" words. Who, what, where when, and why.  1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th dimensions respectively. The 5th, 'Why" is the real question, isn't it? If you want the answer to that one, meditate or drop acid, and then you won't have to waste your time showing us your (ping pong) balls.

[JDFolk1]

If the sun went away and by some miracle, we did not freeze, and by some other miracle we still had batteries, I could still look at my watch with my flashlight and say, "Meet me in Paris in 72 hours under the Eiffel tower." Wham bam! Like a miracle, time exists again. Of course time is an illusion! If it was physical, the power companies would be selling it to you at twenty cents per second. Or was this vid just some "sly" way of advertising for Jesus. The Son (Sun)? You are boring me.

[JDFolk1]

If the sun went away and by some miracle, we did not freeze, and by some other miracle we still had batteries, I could still look at my watch with my flashlight and say, "Meet me in Paris in 72 hours under the Eiffel tower." Wham bam! Like a miracle, time exists again. Of course time is an illusion! If it was physical, the power companies would be selling it to you at twenty cents per second. Or was this vid just some "sly" way of advertising for Jesus. The Son (Sun)? You are boring me.