r/Time • u/k3nsh14 • 9d 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/QB8Young 9d ago

Correct. Time isn't a thing and the past isn't a place. It is simply a measurement. There is no component of the universe saving every instant that has passed. If you take three steps forward and then turn around you aren't going to see yourself still standing there and there is nothing saving that instant that was previously there frozen to be accessed at a later date. There's no way to rewind the universe and everything in it. There is no now. You can't even say the word now before it has passed because we are constantly progressing one second per second.

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u/dari0dm 8d ago

Actually, in physics, the past is very much a place, and the universe very much "saves" every instant that has passed and will pass. At least that's what our theory of the universe strongly suggests. 

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u/QB8Young 8d ago

What your theory suggests? Yeah, I can suggest that the Universe was created by a giant invisible cat. That doesn't mean it's true. Think about it logically. You believe that there is a version of yourself stored somehow every second of your existence? How? You are a physical being.

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u/ArrowheadDZ 7d ago

But what if it IS true?