ForumsWEPRDo you think time is real?

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WorstSniper
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Or could it just be something created by humans that's imaginary?

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jackmister00
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I personally think that time was organized by people to help organize our lives better.

AnaLoGMunKy
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It is as real as a foot in length. Being a measurement, that is pretty much all it is.


Pretty much sums it up for me
master565
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Pretty much sums it up for me


How? His statement was so wrong that it sums up less then nothing. Read the rest of this thread for the right answer.
AeneasIII
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Read the rest of this thread for the right answer.

Maybe he did and like me he does think that this is 'the right answer', if there ought to be one. Like I said before, to me time is merely a concept, not a real thing. Its a mathematical instrument, invented to help solve problems.
master565
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Like I said before, to me time is merely a concept, not a real thing. Its a mathematical instrument, invented to help solve problems.


Then how does gravity, and black holes warp it, and how is it relative?
JohnGarell
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What exactly is time?


It's the fourth dimension.

Is the Pope catholic?


That's off-topic; but I think so.
deth4
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Then how does gravity, and black holes warp it, and how is it relative?


why is my shoe size 10 but my pants size is 26
master565
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why is my shoe size 10 but my pants size is 26


Because your fat (just kidding i don't know anything about pants measurements)

Because your shoe's and pants exist.
deth4
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i know it probably makes you feel edgy and different to argue that time doesn't exist, but its just a reality you have to accept

its a measurement, and a measurement is a model made up by and for observers relative to their experiences.

An hour ago i ate a sandwich, the hour is the measurement of the amount of time took place between then and now

AnaLoGMunKy
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How? His statement was so wrong that it sums up less then nothing. Read the rest of this thread for the right answer.


I disagree.

Then how does gravity, and black holes warp it, and how is it relative?


It doesnt warp anything, it warps our ability to perceive it in the same way than we usually would.

Or in a literal way, it warps the very essence of whatever it is, breaking down the way that it works normally.

Sorry, but time is a construct. You can argue to high heaven, but like heaven, it doesnt actually exist.

Take any measurement of distance. Its only that distance because of what we are and our ability to perceive at this level of reality.

And just for the record, if you can tell me for a fact that gravity and black holes warp time, you will be rich. In fact, prove either exists. You would also be rich.
Not saying they dont, but we dont actually know that they do.
deth4
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Sorry, but time is a construct. You can argue to high heaven, but unlike heaven, it actually exists.


fixed

nobody knows what goes on in a black hole, you cant say it warps time.

In fact, prove either exists. You would also be rich.


its true, there is some doubt in the existence of gravity. but thats not what this discussion is about.
AnaLoGMunKy
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its true, there is some doubt in the existence of gravity. but thats not what this discussion is about.


Then its deffo not a point of argument to show the existence of time

My main point is, its a measurement, and measurements dont actually exist. Thats why I said 314d1's answer sums it up for me, because it does.

I understand what people mean when they talk about time passing etc

But the question is a philosophical one. Its like asking, am I real?

There is not a right answer, but I love thinking that I am thinking outside the box (but am I really out my box?)
bryceop
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there is no way to prove it exists.

deth4
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Then its deffo not a point of argument to show the existence of time


yes it is, thats the question in the thread title!

there is no way to prove it exists.


somebody asks you how old you are, if you answer them with your correct age then you support the existence of time. in saying that it doesnt exist, you come of as a hypocrite.
AnaLoGMunKy
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yes it is, thats the question in the thread title!


How bout this then... Saying that a black hole warps time is not an argument for the existence of time because you will have a hard time proving the black hole even exists... see? That is what I mean.

somebody asks you how old you are, if you answer them with your correct age then you support the existence of time. in saying that it doesnt exist, you come of as a hypocrite.


Can you not think outside the box please?
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