Time Doesn't Exist
I'd like to make one thing clear first of all. I consider that this world has two forms of time. The first form of time is what us humans use most of the time. This time involves years, eons, hours, months, and all the quantifiable forms of time. The second form of time is abstract. This is the fourth dimension that perceives different events happening at a different time. Without further ado, let's see why I believe the quantifiable time does not exist.
Time is usually portrayed as an abstract idea. You can't really describe how time functions. Most people assume that time is linear progression. With this view you see timelines that details each event. If that were so, then how come time is so variable? How come time can be so intangible in our world?
The time we use is time we apply to our surroundings is best seen by years, minutes, hours, and months. But these numbers can't be used to define time in our universe. In fact, a year is actually 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes, and twelve seconds. Because of this, we use a leap year every four years but that is still off by about a second. The hours of a day are used to signify how long a single day is with the sun directly above us at noon. That doesn't work either because during the winter the days get shorter and vice versa for the summer. We're essentially using a rigid system to quantify a fluid world around us which allows for plenty of discrepancies.
These discrepancies make it harder to actually find the real dates in the past because of small things like global warming and leap years. If you ask a bird what time it is, the bird doesn't know. All the bird knows is to depend on the temperature to migrate. We have become so overly dependent on this quantifiable time that it has made us neglect everything outside due to our schedules that are on a grid. These schedules don't make any sense given that days are variable as well.
Time is undefinable. Our usage of numerical time is laughable since it doesn't work at all. Time is fluid. Time is abstract. Time can't be used to represent our world on a daily basis. Because of this our use of time is unjustified.
This post makes absolutely no sense and uses terrible reasoning.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to make one thing clear first of all. I consider that this world has two forms of time. The first form of time is what us humans use most of the time. This time involves years, eons, hours, months, and all the quantifiable forms of time. The second form of time is abstract. This is the fourth dimension that perceives different events happening at a different time.
So basically, you are saying that the first form of time is a measurement, and the second form of time is abstract? That's like saying that the first form of length is the meter, kilometer, etc. and that the second form of length is abstract. The second part is what it is(an abstract idea), and the first part is how people measure it, not exactly a "form of time".
"Time is usually portrayed as an abstract idea. You can't really describe how time functions. Most people assume that time is linear progression. With this view you see timelines that details each event. If that were so, then how come time is so variable? How come time can be so intangible in our world?"
What's wrong with defining time as a linear progression? You said in the first paragraph that you consider time to be the fourth dimension. If we look at the first 3 dimensions, they each are linear. These dimensions are also intangible. One does not touch space; one touches something that occupies space, just like one can touch something that occupies time(basically an object can be measured by both the time that it is present and the space that it takes up). Also, how is time variable?
The next section doesn't make any sense. The measurement of time is in no way a rigid system. Take a look at these corrections:
Days aren't variable; they are defined as the amount of time it takes for the Earth to rotate once around it's axis.
A second is defined as 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the Cesium 133 atom.
An hour is defined as 3600 seconds. In no way does this change depending on the seasons.
Lastly, saying that our use of numerical time doesn't work at all is an extremely ignorant and stupid. It's the same thing as saying our usage of the meter is useless. Without base measurements, how would science advance as far as it has? Do you really think that if we didn't invent a unit of time, then we would be where we are now?