Is there really such thing as time?

time has to be real
time has to be real or everything would happen at once or nothing would ever happen.

Yes JL

I think that it is basically the same thing. It all seems to be related to mass and distance somehow, which in turn relates physically to a "speed of time".

I am unable however to imagine a universe without time. (donohues point)


Satt,
I am inclined to think that that problem of existence of our parts in different time is a matter of scale. Perhaps instead of saying "at this point in time" we should say "at this blob in time"

I am inclined to think (for now) that time actually moves a bit faster than light. This tends to raise hob with a lot of our astronomical observations.

Mosheb, I will hunt up the book "Kromo". So far I have not found anybody who has much of an idea of what "time" really is, although there are several theories around.

akaMechsmith..

The concept of the instance (of time) must be very fuzzy already.

akaMechsmith, I too cannot imagine a world without time (for Kant, space and time are innate human mental categories), but that doesn't tell us anything about the nature of time. Time may be simply one of our innate and necessary illusions.

Yep Satt,

Perhaps time, like love and charity, works best when not examined too closely

Ch..ch..ch..changes


time is the common denominator across the other dimensions.

Ch..ch..ch..change(s)

"kromo" isn't a book, its a journal

I'm not sure that I understood what kalidosmith wrote. But I enjoyed seeing myself quoted

It seems that we are talking about two kinds--or aspects--of time: that which is a correlate of space and that which refers to the fundamental character of everything: change.

As long as things age you might as well put some kind of measurement of time to it.

Maybe I don't understand, but I think the word "time" describes a concept which does exist. whether or not the concept has validity depends on your own definition of what time is. Ask yourself exactly what you are questioning. My own opinion is that time is real. Time is what it is therefore it is.