Head help: Do you ever wonder if time really exists? - Help.com

personally i believe questions like that, such as the “meaning of life” are just too complicated.
we’ll never know, so why ponder?
but i do agree with you there, that my time is different form your time.

I just watched a show about a study done on time and how we relate to it. People were asked to count to one minute in their heads. They were individually timed against a stop watch. Older people thought time was going faster than it really is and younger people thought time was slower. Interesting discovery since kids are always saying everything takes too long and for older people life is speeding up. The older we get we are gaining momentum for the down hill race I suppose.

Isabellaboo, well some people just can’t help but ‘ponder’. I think you’re lucky if you can just wave those questions aside.

Obviously somehow time does ‘exist’, but I think of it more in terms of it being connected to the notion of ’space’. Time is for me just a difference between the positions of objects in space. For example you could ask yourself the question if time would still ‘flow’ or ‘pass’ if every single atom in the universe would stand still. Would it? I think it wouldn’t, there would be nothing to flow. Time as we know it is just an illusion.

Great topic, though.

Time certainly exists. Seconds, minutes, hours…ect are just our way of expressing it.

Kanna - Oh I wonder, for sure, how can you not? Human Nature is embedded in curiosity. But I guess I’ve just decided, well, I’m ignorant.
Ignorance is bliss. xD

Yes, time exists defined by each moment we are in, while technically our flesh dies and rots in a linear and finite time, however while alive time is altered by our perception which speeds it up and slows it down. ~smiles~

Time is a *****.

Time is relative … ask Einstien :)
~Richard

Yes Time Definitely exists

Science Daily — The concept of time is self-evident. An hour consists of a certain number of minutes, a day of hours and a year of days. But we rarely think about the fundamental nature of time.

Time is passing non-stop, and we follow it with clocks and calendars. Yet we cannot study it with a microscope or experiment with it. And it still keeps passing. We just cannot say what exactly happens when time passes.

Time is represented through change, such as the circular motion of the moon around the earth. The passing of time is indeed closely connected to the concept of space.

According to the general theory of relativity, space, or the universe, emerged in the Big Bang some 13.7 billion years ago. Before that, all matter was packed into an extremely tiny dot. That dot also contained the matter that later came to be the sun, the earth and the moon – the heavenly bodies that tell us about the passing of time.

Before the Big Band, there was no space or time.

“In the theory of relativity, the concept of time begins with the Big Bang the same way as parallels of latitude begin at the North Pole. You cannot go further north than the North Pole,” says Kari Enqvist, Professor of Cosmology.

One of the most peculiar qualities of time is the fact that it is measured by motion and it also becomes evident through motion.

According to the general theory of relativity, the development of space may result in the collapse of the universe. All matter would shrink into a tiny dot again, which would end the concept of time as we know it.

“Latest observations, however, do not support the idea of collapse, rather inter-galactic distances grow at a rapid pace,” Enqvist says.

So what is your nick in SL? Nice avatar!

Time will not be a limitation on us, when we leave this life…..
We will have an eternity……
to enjoy…….being in the presence of God……..
if we prepare on this side……

Blessings…..

Man created the concept of time based on the rotation of the earth and its revolution around the sun. If we lived on any other planet, our whole concept of time would be completely different. Hours, minutes and seconds didn’t begin rising to such importance until the industrial revolution. All of a sudden there were specific times of day to clock in and out of work, instead of getting up with the sun to work in the fields.
I wonder how different our concept of time would be if our bodies were immortal. Or even if our average life expectancy were, say, 200 years. I like to ponder these things because they’re interesting to think about, not because I expect to find the answer. I don’t see why people are upset by questions with no definitive answer. The fun is not in finding the clear-cut answer, but in exploring the possibilities.

Thanks :) I agree with you. For many things, contemplation is its own reward.

Well technically, like my great friend Cresty so clearly said, time was created to express change,it wasn’t until we progressed and discovered that the Earth moved around the son did we use it as a description of that movement. I like to think of it as a means of expressing change. :D

and yeah…I spelled “sun” wrong…go me hehe

Time itself exists, the standard by which we measure it is a social construct

Yep, tisaxctly what I said earlier :)

But the existence of time is not really logical. Think of the period of one hour. Divide it into minutes. Sixty. Then seconds. 3600. Then take one second and divide it into two, into four, into eight and so on to infinity… where does it end? What is the smallest unit of time? The division has to end somewhere if we want it to exist. But we can split it infinitely. Same as distance. WTF? So where is time then?

I’m sorry but what you said makes absolutely so sense to me whatsoever. So you can split it infinitely…just like everything else…so?

Don’t worry- it doesn’t

[quote crestfallen] I wonder how different our concept of time would be if our bodies were immortal. Or even if our average life expectancy were, say, 200 years. [quote]

According to the bible, there was a period of time, when man lived to be 950 or so years….. then, it was cut to 120 years, and now, it is about 70.