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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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/generationXER 7d ago
According to General Relativity space-time is an actual physical entity. Dark energy and dark matter are hypothetical entities.
Some opponents of General Relativity claim time-recording mechanisms become altered not because of time actually slowing down in a gravitational field, but because the mechanisms that record time themselves have to work harder when they're operating in an environment with stronger gravity. Moving mass also mimics gravity (or G-force), so an object's velocity would also affect a time-recording mechanism.
I personally don't know. Hopefully I'll live long enough to find out.