Is time man made?
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Campbell305
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Is time man made?
"Do the hands of time still move if there are no humans to set the clocks" that's a quote from Orsen Welles war of the worlds and it got me thinking is time real or is it a man made thing. Let me know what you think.
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Jebus
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Re: Is time man made?
I have often thought along these lines and in a way it has given me an "atheistic chance of an afterlife", i.e. if time is merely a perception of now rather than something ongoing that will eventually have an end, than what is to say that the collective perception of my life cannot be accessed at any "time" even after I "die".
However lately I no longer see any solace in this possibility. Living in a world where so many beings suffer every second, I would prefer if time exists so that this suffering will have no "future" chance of reoccurring in anyone's consciousness.
My apologies if this post is unclear. I I will do my best to clarify if anyone finds in incomprehensible.
However lately I no longer see any solace in this possibility. Living in a world where so many beings suffer every second, I would prefer if time exists so that this suffering will have no "future" chance of reoccurring in anyone's consciousness.
My apologies if this post is unclear. I I will do my best to clarify if anyone finds in incomprehensible.
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brimstoneSalad
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Re: Is time man made?
Time is real, just as is temperature (as a measure of thermal energy), but perception of it is both highly relative and subjective, as is to some degree temperature.
If your hand is cold, even a relatively cool thing can feel hot.
If you're bored, moments can seem like hours.
Time is also relative in terms of physics, to the reference frame; literally passing faster of slower in context based on relative velocity, as well as depth of gravity well.
It becomes a little more complicated at the extremes; at the speed of light, all time stops, while at some hypothetical zero velocity outside of any gravity well, time may be infinitely fast - which is to say, in these scenarios, there is no time as we know it. This is like before the big bang; there was no matter, thus no gravity, and nothing to "slow down" time; it's hard to say in those contexts that it existed in any sense, and even if it did, it would expend itself in no time at all.
Time is a product not of perception, but of reference frame and gravity, and its nature is even more complex than that, representing a crucial dimension of space through which the universe's[multiverse] wave function propagates.
Is the past gone? Is the future non-existent? Not really; both can be said to be laid out if you were to view them in fifth dimensional space. But there's no time there with which to have consciousness of such an experience (it's a position that can not be occupied, so it's purely a thought experiment).
If your hand is cold, even a relatively cool thing can feel hot.
If you're bored, moments can seem like hours.
Time is also relative in terms of physics, to the reference frame; literally passing faster of slower in context based on relative velocity, as well as depth of gravity well.
It becomes a little more complicated at the extremes; at the speed of light, all time stops, while at some hypothetical zero velocity outside of any gravity well, time may be infinitely fast - which is to say, in these scenarios, there is no time as we know it. This is like before the big bang; there was no matter, thus no gravity, and nothing to "slow down" time; it's hard to say in those contexts that it existed in any sense, and even if it did, it would expend itself in no time at all.
Time is a product not of perception, but of reference frame and gravity, and its nature is even more complex than that, representing a crucial dimension of space through which the universe's[multiverse] wave function propagates.
Is the past gone? Is the future non-existent? Not really; both can be said to be laid out if you were to view them in fifth dimensional space. But there's no time there with which to have consciousness of such an experience (it's a position that can not be occupied, so it's purely a thought experiment).