Time doesn't exist

"Time cannot exist because motion is an infinite number of instances. Infinity cannot exist in a period of time" - My husband

 

Agreed. Hypothetically, if no one ever told you that there was time do you think your life would be the same?

 

or, as the quote goes, "if you didn't know your age, how old would you be?"

 

Exactly. Things just happen. Humans divided the day and night to create distinction.

 

"time doesn't exist" threads are like the new "how big is your penis" threads.

 

^ lol

Was wondering why everybody's in such a hurry.

Always thought I was a few wrinkles short of a crisis, now I've got me a white hair, or two. Spooky.

 

The way we view time can be arbitrary in many instances but it specifies a consensual view in order for society to function. Furthermore, I think there are several conditions of life which are bound to time, so our over ordering of time stems from a deeper truth of how time effects our existence, which I'll give examples for in response to the below quote.

You might not be able to slap a number on your age in this instance but when you have your first period, your balls drop (attempting to tie it in with the genital talk), or your hair grows (white hair in DejaVu's case) you would still recognize a passage of time.


Even in the more arbitrary sense, I think it helps for a better understanding of reality. The specific time you made this post at may be more of the arbitrary type of time I speak of, however it allows for a sequential level of events so that we both understand that I am responding to your post. Without this, it's possible that we may as well assume that what I wrote above your quote came before what you wrote. This type of consensual time is important as it leads to heightened communication and understanding.

 

Cue:

 

Time could be fewer than an infinite number of instances and we could easily perceive it as being infinite. Look how many frames per second a film uses. It certainly isn't infinite, but we perceive a steady motion.

Is there some idea of time that exists? Like, if you say to a person, this will last five minutes, do they really get a sense of what that means? Can they remember what five minutes is like? They sort of do, so it must be something. Five minutes seems different than an hour, doesn't it?

 

Time doesn't exist. I suppose that's true like any man made measurements that humans have invented but it is none the less essential for the progress of Man....

 

Time past exists

 

Why do people confuse time with the measurement of time? One is imposed, one is an ineluctable force of reality.

To say that time doesn't exist is as nonsensical as to say distance doesn't exist.

Spare me the pseudo intellectual quasi eastern mysticism....

 

I agreed with you until you played the 'eastern mysticism' card.

 

this

 

This is the dumbest thing I've read today.
Time is not measured in its whole infinity, time is measured in distinguishable finite periods. That there is an infinite amount of finite periods of time is another subject entirely.

 

While I wouldn't use the word "dumbest", I agree with this analysis...

As well, OP posted that "motion is an infinite number of instances". While this sounds cute, and would probably look good when you were stoned, it's wrong. Motion can be measured, even down to the molecular level if necessary, and so while it might take (for instance) a bajillion units of x to describe the movement involved in smiling, it isn't infinite. It's just that no-one can be bothered doing it.


And to the poster who deprecated my use of the term "eastern mysticism" I did qualify it with the word "quasi"......

 

If time doesn't exists how do hourly wage eaners get paid?

 

Inadequately.

ba-dum-bump.

 

BTW, I had to give you thumbs up as soon as I read this line!

 

I am with these errant bastards that know time to exist, however, I must point out, that motion can't be measured altogether, smiles aside. Not to worry however, humans would perhaps not live up to being the bores they presume themselves to be if they were ever truly pressed, for time. :-D