Do you think time is real?

Question

I have red many articles on this topic, but still dont understand properly. Why time is always moving towerds futere? Is it travling or still? Is it posible to stop it or move in any direction? Could anyone explain the whole theory to me?

Answer 1

Yes time is real. You really do die if you are held under water without any air for a long enough time.

Time is what separates the events, or actions, or things that happen, into separate events. So Columbus sailing the Atlantic and Buzz Aldrin (Thought I was going to say Neil Armstrong, didn't you) walking on he Moon don't happen simultaneously.

So is time moving and we are standing still, or is time like a ruler marked in hours and years, and we are always moving along it? Either idea works it seems to me.

Answer 2

you can't possibly go back in time, because the only way it really exists is through the memory of human beings.

the only "time" that actually exists is now.

so the future doesn't exist either, or at least until we get to it.

then it will exist for a breif moment as what feels to us like is "now".

the only way time travel would be possible would be to go into the future by freezing your body.  that way, you can make 10 years seem like a moment to you and your brain.

see?

Answer 3

Time is an absolute illusion. there is no time, we human make the clock and invented it. otherwise god would be 17 billion years old.  

Answer 4

The Universe changes constantly...stars age and die, planets orbit suns, galaxies turn slowly on their centers of gravity and interact gravitationally with other galaxies, etc.

All this takes place over time.

Time would not stop if there was no consciousness to observe and/or question it.

Time is not a human construct...it is a property of everything.  

Answer 5

Time is as real as it gets.

The earth is spinning on it's axis, around and around in an endless spin. Time is a small fraction of that spin...

The Earth is orbiting around the Sun, our star, and it keeps going around and around it. Time is a small fraction of that orbit.

The Moon is orbiting around the Earth and it comes up in the night sky and is even seen sometimes in the daytime. It keeps going around and around theEarth. Time is a small fraction of that orbit.    

Answer 6

i agree with every1's answer above me (sry if ur below me i havent read ur statment) and yes the big bang theroy is an excellent show BUT i prefer the show "yhe universe" on the history channel MUCH more

Answer 7

watch the big bang theory on the science channel. they explain that time and space are one (the fabric of time and space)

Every time you look at a star you are looking into the past. einstein has a theory on time travel, search for it on the net. something about travailing at the speed of light. every time you look at our sun you see it 8 minutes in the past because it takes 8 minutes for the light to reach us.

Answer 8

This is a good question

I think that the type of  time that we believe in is a way for mankind to grasp the universe and to validfy the fact that humans age and die. We use our time system as a way of explaining the sense of our schedules, and we also use it as a form of communication.

Time, at least our idea of time, does not exist in the universe. It sits there simply waiting for nothing, as phases come and go in its vast fabric of space.

This is just an opinion obviously.

Answer 9

Time, as we define it, is real. But we don't quite know what time actually is.

I think all time actually exists "now", we just precept it as if it's moving.

Answer 10

people say time is not real because there is a philosophical argument that general relativity can not explain out perception of the present. in general relativity time is related to your mass and hence your acceleration, that is why 'moving clocks run slow'.

http://www.thestargarden.co.uk/general%2...

http://www.thestargarden.co.uk/special%2...

There is a similar argument that things like colour and sound do not exist as there is nothing within equations to correspond to the experience certain wavelengths have.

http://www.thestargarden.co.uk/does%20th...

There is also an argument that space time points do not exist and that time and space are manifestations of the matter within them, i.e. if there were no objects there would be no space time.

http://www.thestargarden.co.uk/Do%20spac...

Answer 11

Interesting question!

Most people agree that the reason time always moves in the forward direction is because of entropy. Entropy is just the amount of disorder in a system. High entropy means high disorder, and low entropy is low disorder. Things have a tendency to become more disordered and thus increase their entropy. For instance, if an egg falls off a table, it goes from low entropy, to a state of high entropy.We never see broken eggs pick themselves up off the floor and jump back onto the table fully repaired. That is why things move forwards into the future. The laws of physics just makes things want to be more disordered.

And if you're wondering about complex life forms like animals and humans, just keep in mind that although we may seem like low entropy beings, the heat and energy we put back out into the universe as we go through life increases the universe's overall entropy more than if we never existed.

Now, as for what actually causes time to exist, nobody really knows. But without time, all events that have and will ever happen in the universe would happen simultaneously. In one moment of indeterminate size. Most people think that the existence of space is what created time, because space and time are actually two aspects of the same space-time, but once again, nobody really knows.

For your last question, about stopping time, we actually can (almost). But only for yourself. Like I said above, space and time are actually two parts of the same space-time. And our movement through one, effects our movement through the other. Einstein discovered that the faster you move through space, the slower you move through time and vice versa, however the combined speed of both has to add up to the speed of light. If we move through space at near lightspeed, we can cut down on the amount of time we experiece. However, everything would feel normal to you because everything, including your brainwaves would be moving at the same speed. We can only stop our movement through time by moving at the speed of light. That of course is impossible. Only the photon can move at lightspeed. That means that all of the history of the universe will have passed before a photon will experience any time. It also explains why photons don't decay.

As for time travel, I don't think it's possible.

Answer 12

Of course time is real.  It's an integral part of our universe, a part of and synonymous with space itself.  Without time, there is no existence.

Crack open any physics book and see how many of the formulas incorporate time.  Now ask yourself this; if time is merely an illusion - a contrivance for the convenience of mankind - then why does every formula that uses time hold true?  How can we define speed in any consistent matter if there is no such thing as time to separate an object at position A from the same object at position B?  The answer: we can't.  Very real phenomena only make sense if they are separated by a fourth-dimensional coordinate we call time.

It IS true that units of time such as seconds, hours, and weeks, are purely man-made ideas; however, so are meters, feet, and furlongs.  Would the crowd who argues that time isn't real also claim that DISTANCE isn't real, simply because we had to invent units to measure it?

The argument falls apart with even the slightest prodding.  Pay no heed to he who says time isn't real; he has confused absurdity with philosophy.

I hope that helps.  Good luck.

Answer 13

In my opinion, time is more real than our definition of reality.

It has become vogue in some circles for people to say that time isn't real.  This is some new age claptrap, I believe.  As long as one event can occur before another, the existence of time has been proven.

Answer 14

Its a word we give to the perception that we age and change.

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