Time does NOT exist!

Question

I was answering a Q, and came to think about my controversial theory that time does not exist. There are few people who agree with me. I think that humans "invented" time because we need a schedule because one "day" we know we will die. Time is not an object, it can't be held, touched, etc. Time is an idea. Maybe it's in our imaginations. Why is it a dimension? It's nonspatial...

Answer 1

Simple

Try to explain something that happened in the past without mentioning time

Ex. Big bang

When billions of years ago

years=time

Answer 2

I agree that time does not exist, but I don't know how to prove this to you or anyone.

"A cesium clock operates by exposing cesium atoms to microwaves until they vibrate at one of their resonant frequencies and then counting the corresponding cycles as a measure of time. The frequency involved is that of the energy absorbed from the incident photons when they excite the outermost electron in a cesium atom to jump ("transition") from a lower to a higher orbit."

EDIT: I doubt you'll get the answer you're looking for on Yahoo! Answers. You should research your question on a physics forum website or something. Good luck!

Answer 3

It was my question she was asking about.  Time is an idea, a concept that humans thought of to help understand the logic that matter doesn't just come in to existance and instantly dissappear, but that you and I keep on existing.

Kayla...if you have an alternate hypothesis, I am all ears.

Answer 4

I feel for you when the light we see from another star happened some billion years ago still matters now.where is time hiding now?

Answer 5

Sorry to break it to you, but time does in fact exist. Quantum physicists are still debating which direction it moves in (most are pretty sure it goes forwards), but the fact that it exists isn't seriously disputed in any physical terms as it is known that physical phenomena require time in order to occur.

Unfortunately, we don't know yet what makes time real, any more than we know what makes space real- in fact, somewhat LESS than we know what makes space real, because the latter question does actually have some reasonable theories put forward in an effort to solve it. It is possible that we will someday be able to figure out why time works the way it does by looking at it from outside our own universe, but so far we don't know any way of breaking out of this universe so this is quite speculative.

Answer 6

Time is a displacement in 3D space. It is usually the 4th dimension.

Mankind uses the divisions of time for efficiency.

All creatures use time. Nature uses time as well...the seasons.

EDIT: seasons occur because of the 3D displacement through space. It's not about tilt alone, it's about time passing as we transit through space. Conditions change as time passes. Time is an indicator of cycles. Integrated cycles with other cycles. So in saying that, nature is cyclic, and so is time.

It is a dimension since it requires us to move through 3D space in order for it to exist. If everything were frozen in the universe, with nothing moving, then time would cease to exist. As long as stars swing around in galaxies and planets orbit stars, and moons orbit planets, and planets spin on their axis, and clouds move across the sky, time will always be prevailent.

EDIT: Time does not exist at the 5th dimensional field, known as the 'field' or 'quantum field'. All time breaks down there. This is about dimensions, btw. The more dimensions become complicated and abundant, the less likelyhood that time is prevailent. Time is a lower class dimension and higher than 3D.

That is why when you travel at light speed, time slows down. You are changing dimensions when you approach light speed. Time dimension becomes less prevailent through the shift in dimensions.

ALSO time can be an energy form as well. Since dimensions are geometrical, they do have an energy beginning. Sound can create geometry which is just dimensions. Sound is energy or frequency. If time is a dimension, which I believe it is, then time is also a form of energy and also frequency (cyclic), and it is belonging to a primordial set of dimensions we have come to know very well.

P.S.: what exactly are looking for?

Answer 7

Time does exist.

Human beings, and all things we understand to exist around us, all move through time in a single direction.

What we humans invented is not time, it is the system to trace our motion through time. As we move we measure where we are relative to where we have been and where we are going. It is analogous to driving down a road, knowing from a map where you are coming from and where you are going, and being able to look back behind us and see (or remember) where we have been, and to look ahead of us and see (or anticipate) where we will be. We invented the idea of hours minutes weeks -- schedules. But we did not invent time itself.

It is considered a dimension because it is used to locate objects.

Like this.

Consider a cube of solid glass that is 24 inches tall, 24 inches wide, and 24 inches from front to back. Now imagine it has a tiny air bubble in it. You can measure in from the front of the glass and say that the air bubble is 4 inches from the front, or it's X measurement is 4 inches. Then you can measure from the left side of the cube and record that the air bubble is 7 inches from the left side, or it's Y measurement is 7 inches. Then when you measure from the bottom of the solid glass cube, you measure that it is 12 inches from the bottom, its Z measurement is 12 inches. You have located the object in three dimensional space by using the X, Y, and Z axes.

Now imagine the glass cube is hollow, not solid.

And now there is not an air bubble in the cube but a housefly.

How do you locate it??

You need to identify the time, say 2:32:12 AM Central Time, then say it was at X=15, Y=11, and Z=8. In order to locate the object in "space-time" (a scientific title which I hate, incidentally) you needed to use 4 axes, you needed to measure in 4 dimensions. As long as we move through time, we need to use time to locate objects, and using it to do this identifies it as a dimension.

Answer 8

Time does exist! It's been around ever since the universe existed.

Answer 9

I like your question...but like time, gravity is not an object that can be held or touched, but it's effects can be felt. Just like the passing of time can be "felt".

I agree with another poster who said we give names to things we don't understand. We still don't have a complete and full understanding of gravity, yet we know it "exists". Only "time" will tell us the answers...

Answer 10

So every single person who has ever smoked pot or gone into deep meditation has figured this out. It isn't new information.  But I don't see a question. Other than those too afraid to see, we all know this, we just don't talk about it.

Answer 11

I hear you .... but then ....what is my clock measuring if it's not time

we give names to things we do and don't understand

Answer 12

i've got no idea,,

Answer 13

If time does not exist then why are we fooling around with all these verb tenses?

Answer 14

According to the Big Bang, which was the initial birth of time itself, state that time, the point in which the count of a set duration, is started. Time 0 is the point just before the Big Bang. Since time is measured by our standard of minutes and hours, we theoretically invented time. But in reality time was born at a set point.

Answer 15

just like religion. humans made everything up and named it. so what. we use time as a measurement now.  

Answer 16

you just figured that out? everyone knows that.

Answer 17

I'm in Year 10 myself, but, Just a thought...

You cannot hold or touch love

You cannot hold or touch sadness

You cannot hold or touch happiness

Heck...You cannot hold or touch any emotions

You cannot hold or touch memories

Does that mean they don't exist? I know what you're getting at but time in my opinion does exist. Without time, we'd be frozen in space, actually we wouldn't be frozen at all - we wouldn't be here...Time allows us as humans to move forward in a non-physical way. Time is the basis on which every single one of our lives revolves around. Without time, we would not be able to move, or think, or anything.

I hope that makes sense...  

Answer 18

It took me three minutes to answer this question.

Answer 19

Hi Kayla!

Thanks for noticing my answer to "Tim" about time and such.

Correct,  . . . as well as we can tell.

Time is technically not a dimension, although it is popular to refer to is as one.

The concept of "Time" is one of the reasons that Einstein could not get his "Theory Of Relativity" to balance.

Don't stop asking interesting questions just because they are not popular with some people.

I have provided you with 2 links that you may find interesting to read, in the event that you want to deepen your understanding.

Answer 20

Time is what keeps everything from happening at the same time. We humans aren't the only creatures to be aware of it. Consider geese migrating, bears hibernating or squirrels collecting nuts, at just the right time.

Answer 21

I'm in 7th grade and I think about this every "day." Why is it that humans base their entire lives on a schedule that is based on a number on a digital screen? Or worse yet, a plastic hand pointing to a number? Why is it that we sleep when "night" comes, and go about our "daily" business when the sun comes up? You are correct. Time is merely an idea, one that is becoming too large and too focused upon. Think about this: If we didn't eat breakfast every day at, say 7:00 AM, lunch at noon, dinner at 6:00 PM, and go to sleep at 11:00 PM, would our body's crave food at those times? Would we become tired? I don't believe so. Because time is a state of mind that has trapped people for millenniums. What would happen if we took our clocks and watches away? People would be lost, because it would alter their state of mind, a ritual that they have become so very used to. When somebody says, "I've got soccer practice at 5:30 today. Shucks." I realize that time is like a prison. Without time, nobody would celebrate Christmas, nobody would make it to their soccer practices at the same time and we'd be living in the same year as when Jesus was crucified. Time is controlling humanity.

Thank you for being the only person with the same idea as I. All of my chaps think I'm crazy. Cheers!

Answer 22

I asked my grandmother if time existed and she almost hit me, she's 103.

Rick

Answer 23

thats an interesting question.... hmm....

Answer 24

If a black hole could talk it would scream "Time does NOT exist!!" And then it would make time not exist for anything around it. Black holes are real jerks.