(Note this is a repost from my own blog)
I had the thought that time doesn’t really exist if you think about it hard enough. People look at time and space as a three dimensional environment, space goes in all directions and time goes in another direction entirely keeping a track of its own. Well my thought is that time doesn’t go in a different direction or the same direction or any direction at all. As far as I’m concerned time doesn’t exist, its a figment of the collective consciousness, a little trinket created by man to keep our lives in order. Rotations and revolutions of planets, stars, solar systems, galaxies, and universes aren’t recorded and set by some big dimensional clock, the only things in existence capable of keeping time are sentient beings, like humans and any possible extra terrestrials.
This brings me to another theory/idea that I have which I will explain backwards to forwards to make it most clear to everybody.
When you look at the matter of existence you usually end up with a few options for how it all came to be. If your into the whole religion thing you are usually pretty sure that there is a “God” somewhere out there that created the whole ..everything. For most rational beings this draws you to the question of who or what created god, and then who or what created the who or what that created god, and so on and so forth into complete oblivion. That however is more plausible than the next option of everything ever spontaneously popping into existence without reason. From nothing for no reason is just not a viable answer to anything. I can agree with any people who want to argue god over this point, they are quite right thinking that this is the answer to the big why is completely ridiculous. I wouldn’t have a problem however arguing for the matter that everything has always existed. There was never a point when there was nothing, no time when everything was made. You know why there was never such a time, well for one because time doesn’t exist. For another its the fact that things cannot possibly be made from nothing, its just rather impossible in matter concerning mathematics. There might have been have been a time when nothing living existed, or everything in the universe was all clumped together in some gigantic ball of mass, or it might have been gas or particles or who knows a gigantic friggin star, that exploded and sent its parts all over everything. If thats the case though it would like like everything comes from a gigantic star which explodes and turns into what we have now which expands to a certain point and eventually starts to collapse into itself and turn back into a star. After that the whole thing starts all over again repeated on a time scale which isn’t even comprehendable and I don’t want to think about.
So yes this has been my big rambling ramble about everything and nothing and the non existence of time.
Dalarius
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I guess if time doesn’t exist, matter doesn’t exist either. Say, time and space in accordance with Einstein’s theory can’t be separated: they are not like soup, from which you can pick what you like and throw away the rest. So, if we’ll damp the concept of time, we should damp everything what goes with it, including matter and energy. It’s a kind of contradiction, when you say there’s no time, but then talk about Big Bang. From my point of view, if there’s no time, there’s no action, no movement, no life, no mastermind behind the plot we call Universe (God,if you like). I guess what you mean is that time is not exact: it can go faster or slower, so let’s say time as we percieve it is not an objective category, but is subjective (though everything we see, think and feel is subjective, filtered, as products of our thinking and interpretation).
Well, if you’ll agree with me on this point, everything in your description fits: as long as time subjective, it can even disappear or come to a standpoint for a while.
That’s all within the power of our imagination, isn’t it?
I can agree with what you say, I more meant though that time in the way people have conceived it doesn’t exist. Although I wasn’t very specific on that point. Yes though I quite like how you put it, who’s to say though that anything really does exist. I guess if it didn’t though that I wouldn’t be feeling my keyboard right now and looking out the window at a blue sky mountains with snow an apartment building and some trees.
Your remark about existence/nonexistence vividly reminded me what my friend said to me once in our conversation on this subject:
“Boris, if this world is an illusion, let’s have a decent one”:) :
Blue sky, mountains with snow and some trees…Where do you live? It sounds like a decent place…:)
I live in british columbia canada. I’ve been all over canada and I think that by far this is the most beautiful province. I still have yet to travel around the globe to compare it to other places though