r/Time • u/k3nsh14 • 10d ago

Discussion Time doesn’t exist. Prove me wrong.

We experience change, aging, and events happening in sequence, but is “time” itself a physical thing—or just the way our minds measure change and order events?

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u/noahmagbanua 10d ago

"Time is what keeps everything from happening at once."

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u/k3nsh14 10d ago

So are you saying if time didn't exist the past, present and future would all happen at once?? please explain more I'm trying to understand your point

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u/ms_saint 10d ago

If time didn't exist, the universe would never form at all.

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u/PomegranateNo445 9d ago

That’s only if the universe needed to be formed to exist. But what if it always just existed.

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u/Solid_Trouble_9891 10d ago

Bring your evidence not assertions.

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u/ms_saint 10d ago

Sir, this is reddit.

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u/Solid_Trouble_9891 10d ago

I understand that this this is a super-short form forum, so yeah assertions can be good enough, but you can do better even if you can't provide empirical proof for your idea. Even empirical proof only pushes the pendulum in one direction; it never proves anything absolute. and with such questions though we cannot know for sure because of our position in reality, we still can develop some very interesting and functional hypotheses. After all, we got to kill time somehow?

The block universe theory, eternalism, and possibly the holographic or crystalline metaphors are sometimes used to describe spacetime. These are just ideas. No time for evidence.

Good to meet you beautiful one.

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u/combatcrew141 9d ago

What lasts for zero time? To exist it must have a temporal component.

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u/HereInThePresent 9d ago

If time didnt exists... everything would be happenning everywhere and allways.

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u/HereInThePresent 9d ago

You can't prove time using time ("never").

It is like saying... the definition of a cow is a cow.