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Philosophy

Dash87

(3,220 posts) Fri Mar 15, 2013, 06:22 PM Mar 2013

Does time exist? [View all]

Does time actually exist, or is it nothing more than an illusion caused by the elements? Is time a human construct created by our obsession with metrics and structure?

As I'm typing this, is time actually progressing? The clock next to me says so, but in reality, it's just a precise device with two arms powered by a battery that is synchronized with the earth's day/night and sun-orbit cycles.

Are we sitting on a still, timeless plane that has various elements that give the illusion of time, or is it actually real?

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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