This reading about time is very frustrating. It's making me mad because i dont see how people can think time doesnt exist. One example that made me mad was this: "Does the instant that we label as "11:01 A.M." for a certain date exist independently of the events that occur then? In other words, can time exist if no event is happening?"
How can it be that any instant, there is no event happening? It makes no sense. There is always something happening. Sure, at 11:01 in the morning you may not be doing anything exciting that you would consider to be an important event, but that doesnt mean that there is nothing going on. Every single second in every day, you are breathing and that in itself is an event. And if this is happening every second, that means that every second is really happening and therefore, yes, time does exist. It doesnt just stop because nothing of importance is going on.
Anyways, that just really frustrated me and made me mad so i wanted to share it.
2 comments:
It's simply a thought-experiment. The idea is to imagine time continuing independently of any events whatsoever; and, (most likely) failing that, concluding something about the nature of time.
You are right--something is always happening. And even if something wasn't happening, it's still conceivable that time would go on. I was completely wrong to state otherwise in class--even when atoms themselves stop moving (heat death), space will still be appearing between them, and they'll still be hurtling away from each other, and even if that wasn't the case, time (as referenced from one instant to the next) would be a mathematical and physical reality.
Post a Comment