time does it exist

[XeroFF7]

can any one teel me if there is a such thing as time and expalin why

[Emptydeath]

time is a very touchy subject it can be considered an illusion but its also the dimension we live in so i guess you have to choose what you belive

[devil.child]

I personally believe in time. I've never had any doubt about it. Time is the difference between yesterday and today, today and tomorrow. Time is the measurement, hours are to days as inches are to feet.

[the_dude3]

Yeah I agree with the devil dude cuz in order to get from point A to point B anywhere, u need a certain progression of time. Plus if time were not real, the past would not be real and niether would the future therefore denying all of history and what is yet to come. Doesn't work.

[the_dude3]

Ummm...no not if you believe that 1+1 equals cheeto. That's not real because 1+1 in reality is equal to 2 correct? So everything is NOT real just because it accords (in your mind) to your belief system. There's a difference between reality and fantasy, absolute truth and relative truth.

[the_dude3]

Time is no more an illusion than distance, it is a neccessary unit of measurement

How are they illusions though? That makes no sense. Basically because it's like saying if somebody were to physically come and slap you across the face and you saying that it never happened. Since it happened in the past and the past is a reference to time, and according to you time doesn't exist, it's just an illusion, then that person never hit you in the face, which is obvious balogna.

[Arkacia]

These sort of questions make my brain hurt.

Yes, I do believe time exists. We measure it in our own fashion, so that can make it look like an illusion. What is a minute, a second, a day, a year but mans label.

How do we know that we've labelled it correctly?

Now, I'm off to find some panadol :p.

[Darquon]

And if time exists, is it the fourth dimension?
And if time is the fourth dimenstion, how many more dimensions are there?

[Ninva]

I've written several theories on this subject, and haven't really done much research, so this is all blind thought.
I believe that time is only part of the human mind because we created it. We still die like everything else, but we created the time the hours. Thus time is not natural. To take it to the religious level, in the Bible God created man and woman. They sin and throw the world in corruption.
Now, those who don't want to agree with that; I point out time. We die, but time it self is a illusion. The reason time is a illusion is because we count it. Hours are actually time passing that we count going around the sun, thus we die. In theory the reason we age is from the sun. The sun keeps us living. Our cells are able to generate with the energy they are given from the sun.
Thus, if we are able to slow down our bodies we will be able to stop time for a long amounts of time. Though, we'll never be able to live forever naturally because at one point our bodies will adapt to that time set and begin counting to that time set. Thus, we'll age in that time set and die a "normal" life time.

[mobikenobi]

Time does exsist physical state and then

your brain takes those actions and files

them into the correct chronological

order for example you see in front of you a

man running thats a physical object

and your brain simply takes the images seen

in your eyes and puts them in chronological order.

[Ninva]

Time does exsist physical state and then

your brain takes those actions and files

them into the correct chronological

order for example you see in front of you a

man running thats a physical object

and your brain simply takes the images seen

in your eyes and puts them in chronological order.
Then how do you age, feel, hear, or any other type of physical thing you may be able to do? If you are saying that our brains are controling everything that goes around us it's rather curious not to ask how we die. Does a brain kill off one person and others around us, thus leaving us to walk a void of no end? Then if this is true, then there is no fact. The laws of fact and opinion have gone down the drain with this theory, but has that always been true? Is not a dead man only sleeping? Is not a tree only a structure? Is not logical thought impossible?

[coogiez]

time is not a thing, it does not control anything, although at first glance you might "believe" it does, it does not, it is a way of measurement, but it is not a thing, humans did not create time, we merely smacked a label on it to make it more understandable.

"time" is a "tool" of change. (change being a "tool" of space)

change is what happens when a thing progresses through a physical cycle, like a piece of dirt being pressurised in to usable material only to be weakened through the actions being undertaken by another thing (i.e: a hammer hitting a peice of metalic plate, the metalic plate being the documented physical object here)

the metalic plate bends, and becomes less dense, over time becoming more and more less dense untill becoming once again a piece of dirt.

i'm not too sure if this helps, but hey, i wrote this up quickly, i might go over it a few times if i feel like it, and alter the the statments like change working in a documentable cycle, or a quick one atleast.

oh, and i will obviously be going over the statments stating one "thing" being a "tool" of another and expand the meaning of "tool" in the sense of which i used here.

the word "thing" is so damn undefined, i just hate using it for any reason.

oh, and if you actually noticed that i put a
LOT of brackets around things -> ""

it's because the meaning of the word i'm portraying here MAY different to the usual meaning defined in dictionaries and such.

[crispyc]

as far as i am concerned time is a man made measurment because we noticed the movemnt of the sun on a basis of we obvicely get older and die surly time exists in some form but maby not as we measure it therfore nothing rlly happens but sun is up its light and down its dark

[Giatros]

I'm partially in agreement with drispyc.

If there was no rotation in our planet and so we did not perceive the sun to move, would we have ever labelled this change as "time".

Also, if our lives never ended would time still "exist"?

[somewhatluck]

well time is not a man made thing, just how we measure it is man made, but time occurs continiously, time is not days or months or years, but the continued existance of everything, maybe?

[ClaRatta]

Ok, I'm severely sleep deprived but hopefully I'll make sense:

Time is something that is as uncertain as the world around us. How do we actually know that the world is not just a figment of our imagination? How do we know that there is or isn't God(s)?
Because time is a part of the world, though uncertain it is comprehended and perhaps the way that one person understands it is different to how another might see it. Who knows? We are not able to enter the conciousness of another being. All we know is what we perceive.

[jackportd]

Hello guys

I extremely believe in time, Because i think it is every think but according to my view its god, when it change and make our life wonderful and colorful too, and beside that when they divert in sadness. its totally depends on that.

So give the impotence to the time, Don't west that in wondering here and there.

Have a good time.

[gretunia21]

Time doesnt exist but we sure believe in and value it. We also kill it, waste it, spend it, lose it, stop it. organise it, squander it, bide it, defy it, etc etc Pretty cool the way we treat a metaphor.