Author Topic: Time doesn't exist (Read 53186 times)

Shyguy92 · « **on:** September 23, 2008, 08:39:56 PM »

Either something happens, or it doesn't, simple as that. That is my opinion. Discuss.

I'm pretty sure that this goes in here. You religious people will find something....

Glorb · « **Reply #1 on:** September 23, 2008, 09:09:22 PM »

"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."
- Woody Allen

Koopaslaya · « **Reply #2 on:** September 23, 2008, 09:21:21 PM »

Aristotle would disagree with you.

Lizard Dude · « **Reply #3 on:** September 23, 2008, 09:25:31 PM »

Is the first post supposed to be saying time doesn't exist, because I don't really get it.

Glorb · « **Reply #4 on:** September 23, 2008, 09:29:13 PM »

Quote from: Koopaslaya on September 23, 2008, 09:21:21 PM

Aristotle would disagree with you.

Who, me, Shyguy or Woody Allen?

Anyway, yeah, time is a uh concept we use to describe why thing happen in an order as opposed to happening at random times.

Will think of a better description once I've had either sleep or caffeine.

ShadowBrain · « **Reply #5 on:** September 23, 2008, 10:33:42 PM »

Quote from: Shyguy92 on September 23, 2008, 08:39:56 PM

Either something happens, or it doesn't, simple as that.

That's got more to do with, like, cause and effect than... time.

PaperLuigi · « **Reply #6 on:** September 23, 2008, 11:37:59 PM »

Whoa, time doesn't exist? I don't even know how to approach this one. I'm pretty sure someone said time exists within the universe. So before the universe...time wasn't there...but for the universe to exist there had to be a time before the universe...

ARGH! My brain hurts.

Eclipsed Moon · « **Reply #7 on:** September 24, 2008, 12:26:15 AM »

I perceive time. This is all that is important.

Koopaslaya · « **Reply #8 on:** September 24, 2008, 02:48:36 AM »

Quote from: Glorb on September 23, 2008, 09:09:22 PM

"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."
- Woody Allen

Shyguy92

Shyguy92 · « **Reply #9 on:** September 24, 2008, 10:41:57 AM »

Quote from: Glorb on September 23, 2008, 09:09:22 PM

"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."
- Woody Allen

Quote from: Glorb on September 23, 2008, 09:29:13 PM

times.

No. Time does not exist, it doesn't have too. It's pretty hard to explain. Just think about it....

Chupperson Weird · « **Reply #10 on:** September 24, 2008, 11:40:49 AM »

Things can't happen without the flow of time, so your first post is self-contradicting. I think our perception of time might be due to us traveling along the "time plane" or something rather than time "flowing" but one way or another our perception is what matters. Time certainly exists somehow, though, because it can be trapped in black holes, and if we were to move close to the speed of light, time would theoretically move slower for us.

Shyguy92 · « **Reply #11 on:** September 24, 2008, 12:19:51 PM »

Kuromatsu · « **Reply #12 on:** September 24, 2008, 01:32:23 PM »

If time didn't exist there would never be a time that this thread would have been posted...

I got to give this a tad bit more thought though... I have a feeling I'm missing something important.

Glorb · « **Reply #13 on:** September 24, 2008, 05:40:27 PM »

Okay.

Time is, like the Internet, not a physical piece of matter, or even an abstract force. It's the name we give to the concept that something must be propelling us through our lives. So, in that regard, I guess time as most people think of it does not exist. But it, um, does.

Egh never mind.

The Chef · « **Reply #14 on:** September 24, 2008, 05:59:37 PM »

Quote from: Shyguy92 on September 24, 2008, 10:41:57 AM

No. Time does not exist, it doesn't have too. It's pretty hard to explain. Just think about it....

No. Time exists, it has to. It's pretty hard to explain. Just think about it...