Happy New Year...Does Time Exist?

[Gintaras]

I talked to my brother, who lives 7 "Time" zones apart.
Does TIME exist? How the hell I was able to talk to my brother, if between us is DIFFERENCE OF 7 HOURS?

Isn't "time" just human immagination? WE ALL LIVE AT THE SAME TIME...

I think, "time" is a measure that all agreed on, unlike democracy/tyranny, Fahrenheit/Celsius, miles/kilometers...

Another thing, besides "time", all we agree - bits, bytes, Mb, Gb, hertz, kilohertz, MHz, GHz...etc...

Isn't a LIFE a fun?

Happy New Year to all...no matter who lives faster or slower....East or West....

 

[bigrash]

Your brother is in the future. Just accept it.

 

[mizzou]

do this. find someone who will stare at you for 5 hrs straight. then u stare at them. start the timer. tell me without looking at a watch when 5 hours passed

 

[Gintaras]

Your brother is in the future. Just accept it.

According to you, Mexicornia is 3 hours behind me?

 

[Ruptga]

I think it is time for you to lay off the weed.

 

[destrekor]

 

[Gintaras]

I think it is time for you to lay off the weed.

Think once again...

 

[Crono]

It exists because I can travel through it. :sneaky:

 

[Gintaras]

It exists because I can travel through it. :sneaky:

With a watch on your wrist? do watch's arrows move faster while you "travel"?

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

 

[Gintaras]

 

[dennilfloss]

Bonne et heureuse année à tout le monde! Happy New Year, everyone!

 

[Wag]

I think you just had a brain aneurysm.

 

[13Gigatons]

I always thought time zones inside the US were kinda stupid.

 

[DrPizza]

Just to make your head hurt a little more, do you realize that time isn't advancing at the "same rate" for everyone on Earth? Depending on your elevation, (distance from the center of gravity of the Earth), according to Einstein, while a second is still a second long, if we compare the seconds to a reference second at, say, sea level, clocks that are below sea level and clocks that are above sea level will not stay synchronized - they move at "different rates." Though, in those frames of reference, it's the same rate.

And, this has been tested & observed to be true.

 

[MonKENy]

Just to make your head hurt a little more, do you realize that time isn't advancing at the "same rate" for everyone on Earth? Depending on your elevation, (distance from the center of gravity of the Earth), according to Einstein, while a second is still a second long, if we compare the seconds to a reference second at, say, sea level, clocks that are below sea level and clocks that are above sea level will not stay synchronized - they move at "different rates." Though, in those frames of reference, it's the same rate.

And, this has been tested & observed to be true.

thats how GPS works.

 

[reallyscrued]

Just to make your head hurt a little more, do you realize that time isn't advancing at the "same rate" for everyone on Earth? Depending on your elevation, (distance from the center of gravity of the Earth), according to Einstein, while a second is still a second long, if we compare the seconds to a reference second at, say, sea level, clocks that are below sea level and clocks that are above sea level will not stay synchronized - they move at "different rates." Though, in those frames of reference, it's the same rate.

And, this has been tested & observed to be true.

When you think about it, that is more evidence to suggest 'time' is a human construct.

We all 'move forward' through time at the same rate, even if we happen to AGE slower due to our elevation, if you were to freeze everything at a given moment, wouldn't the people aging slower be doing exactly what they were doing the second you froze everything? It's not like they're back in time a few seconds when you go hypothetically freeze time and go visit them.

There should be another word for time as an absolute frame of reference that's not affected by gravity. Like mass vs weight. Or is there one already and I am ignorant of it?

Happy New Year. I am so wasted right now.

 

[disappoint]

Yes time exists. You live in the spacetime continuum.

Public service announcement: Be prepared for some serious drunk postings. Happy New Year *hic*

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

A lot of the confusion with a question like this stems from the inability of the English language to adequately deal with the several senses in which things can be said to exist.

Latitude exists and tennis balls exist, but the nature of their existence is quite different. There is no physical existence of latitude. You cannot touch a latitude coordinate. You can touch something that can be precisely located by longitude and latitude, but the coordinates themselves are not the thing you touch.

Spacetime is a coordinate system like latitude and longitude. It exists as an abstract map of the things in external reality, but it is not itself a thing in external reality.

 

[reallyscrued]

A lot of the confusion with a question like this stems from the inability of the English language to adequately deal with the several senses in which things can be said to exist.

Latitude exists and tennis balls exist, but the nature of their existence is quite different. There is no physical existence of latitude. You cannot touch a latitude coordinate. You can touch something that can be precisely located by longitude and latitude, but the coordinates themselves are not the thing you touch.

Spacetime is a coordinate system like latitude and longitude. It exists as an abstract map of the things in external reality, but it is not itself a thing in external reality.

Dude...this thread has like, a 4 drink minimum.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

Dude...this thread has like, a 4 drink minimum.

Well, then I'm reallyscrued, aren't I?

 

[Albatross]

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

 

[Rifter]

So where is like..... the iraq..... and all the US americans at......

 

[disappoint]

A lot of the confusion with a question like this stems from the inability of the English language to adequately deal with the several senses in which things can be said to exist.

There is no problem with the Engrish ranguage.

All you have to remember is this: If you can't measure it, it is not real.

You can measure time, therefore it is real.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Time exists, the concept of measuring time is man made, but it does not make time itself man made.