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Hello all! I was thinking a lot about time travel recently and how time is not linear. When I heard that Daylight Savings was early this morning, I thought about a possible connection to time travel. When we change our clocks forward an hour, aren't we moving into the future an hour? If time was as linear as a lot of people think it is, time couldn't just skip an hour, could it? If humans can control time like this, then does time really have any meaning at all?
...When we change our clocks forward an hour, aren't we moving into the future an hour?...
You have crossed a time zone before, right?
I have one for you - we all actually live in our pasts. We don't react to or become aware of events until our brains have processed them, so we are only aware of what has passed - not what is happening .
I have one for you - we all actually live in our pasts. We don't react to or become aware of events until our brains have processed them, so we are only aware of what has passed - not what is happening .
I have one for you - we all actually live in our pasts. We don't react to or become aware of events until our brains have processed them, so we are only aware of what has passed - not what is happening .
You all are right about the time zones. And can we forget "leap years". All of this leads me to believe that time is a man-made device, and should not be taken as anything more. We are going into the future and the past all of the time, "time traveling" so to speak In reality, there is no such thing as time.
You all are right about the time zones. And can we forget "leap years". All of this leads me to believe that time is a man-made device, and should not be taken as anything more. We are going into the future and the past all of the time, "time traveling" so to speak In reality, there is no such thing as time.
It depends on how you define "time". If you mean clock time or calendar time, then yes, it is a system of measurement of events based on cycles that regularly repeat in one way or another. Some examples are the complete rotation of the Earth on its axis, the orbit around the Sun. Lunar phases. However, there are many different scales of time. Otherwise, there's be no way to distinguish the elapsed period between when you were born and now. Actually, leap years are kind of necessary because without such an adjustment, the 365-day year would ultimately become increasingly out of sync in relation to the planet's rotation around the sun which we describe as a calendar year. The 365-day calendar year is not precise, nor is the 24-hour day. But they are handy to use as tools to generally measure that particular cycle.
In a sense, yes, you're quite right, we're all time travelers. Time is integrated with space, if you'd like, a property of space. Nothing in the universe is truly static or motionless. Time differs from the point of the observer. It can be faster or slower. The elapse of time points to, flows or unfolds in the direction of the future. Our view of everything no matter how near or far, is always of past events. That's because it takes time for the photons (light) to reach our eyes and be processed by our brain. In a sense there is now such thing as NOW or the Present, in terms of what we perceive. It takes about 8 minutes for the light from the Sun to reach us. It's then that we consider as the Present, but realistically, it's still a view of past events. We see the sun as it was 8 minutes ago. There really is no present time because to get to the exact moment that separates the past from the future you'd never reach the end because technically the segments would become infinitely smaller.
If there is no such thing as time, please explain why. If we are to assume that to be true, then we could also say there is no such thing as length, width or height.
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