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In reply to the discussion: Does time exist? [View all]

Festivito

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17. Time exists to quantify those interrelated qualities of sameness and difference.
Sun Mar 17, 2013, 01:30 AM
Mar 2013

Time as the next dimension beyond 3D space exists as more than just a measurement. Its measure is an egocentric(created by humanity) choice of quantity describing our feeling for the relative quantities of the two qualities of sameness and difference.

PS The cat wanted to add plus signs into the above thoughts. Since we're limiting this to humanity, i deleted them. The cat is away now, pouting. The pout will be the same pout until a thought of the food dish elicits a difference that in turn will also remain the same until about three crunches of dry food when another difference leads to watching out a window. Her measurement of time will be different from mine. Yet, I'd like to think we share the same singular reality although that is not necessary since transitions are so smooth so as to make such a multi-dimensional time-reality appear as one anyway where my egocentric view just says to keep it simple.

Does time exist? [View all] Dash87 Mar 2013 OP
Yes, time exists, and it is affected by gravity. nt ZombieHorde Mar 2013 #1
but, is it stringy or loopy? Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2013 #3
I have no idea, but that was pretty funny. nt ZombieHorde Mar 2013 #4
I am a big bang fan. The TV show not the event. I could take the rhett o rick Mar 2013 #7
I'm going straight to ATA with this. rrneck Mar 2013 #10
lol Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2013 #11
Time is real... ElboRuum Mar 2013 #2
Do existing, sameness and difference exist? Festivito Mar 2013 #5
How do you know that time isn't just a way to quantify those three qualities, Dash87 Mar 2013 #15
Time exists to quantify those interrelated qualities of sameness and difference. Festivito Mar 2013 #17
I am alerting. this is off topic. rhett o rick Mar 2013 #6
Sure ismnotwasm Mar 2013 #8
Time keeps billh58 Mar 2013 #9
it's all happening Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2013 #12
Are you sure that's not just a property of the universe completely separate from time? Dash87 Mar 2013 #16
All of the four dimensions... discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2013 #13
I don't think time exists velvet Mar 2013 #14
If I understand what you're saying, time has no independent, objective existence; but, WheelWalker Mar 2013 #18
Clocks, it is said, WheelWalker Mar 2013 #19
Time is the thing... discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2013 #20
Yes. rrneck Mar 2013 #21
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