Does time exist?

[Michael 345]

Even if the future is uncertain or unknown, it still can be predicted with the known laws

While predictions of the future can be made it is open to question how precise are the predictions?

If the temperature is predicted to be 34°C and when the reading is taken it is 33.99°C would that count as accurate or accurate enough to count as a prediction?

I would also contend for any prediction someone must be present to observe if the prediction actually occurs

So any prediction never happens for those who die before the predicted event happens

For those who happen to be present at the prediction must then decide on how accurate was the prediction

On the TV show QI it was just stated Nostradamus only ever made one accurate prediction when he said his last words

Tomorrow, I shall no longer be here

 

[Write4U]

THE PUZZLE OF TIME

Time is the variable that ACTUATES continuously causing:
a) aging,
b) the deterioration of things,
c) the succession of events and
d) the duration of things

- The measure of time is a mathematical entity
- We perceive changes
- We do not perceive the time intervals
- The units of time are intelligible
- At 65 years old I have only changed my appearance: child, adolescent, adult and elderly.
- The past are memories and the future expectations

I agree with all the above except the term "actuates", which is a verb.
IMO time is not a causal agent. All change is physically actuated and is the causal agent of time (of duration).

All predictions of future events are based on knowledge of physical change or behavior, but as we never can know all the physical variables, any prediction of the future is speculative. At best an "educated guess" of causal potentials to be expressed in physical reality.

 

[Asexperia]

I agree with all the above except the term "actuates", which is a verb.
IMO time is not a causal agent. All change is physically actuated and is the causal agent of time (of duration).

What do have in common changes and phenomena?

1- They are sequential
2- They occur in only one direction (from the past to the future)
3- They are irreversible

These are the characteristics that time transfers by ACTING on things.

 

[hansda]

While predictions of the future can be made it is open to question how precise are the predictions

If predictions are not precise, it will imply there is a scope/opportunity to develop new Laws.

 

[DaveC426913]

What do have in common changes and phenomena?

1- They are sequential
2- They occur in only one direction (from the past to the future)
3- They are irreversible

These are the characteristics that time transfers by ACTING on things.

No sure what you mean by one direction and irreversible.

Well, that turns out not to be true.

Virtually all interactions in physics are time-reversible.

 

[exchemist]

No sure what you mean by one direction and irreversible.

Well, that turns out not to be true.

Virtually all interactions in physics are time-reversible.

Hmm, the 2nd Law of TD would not agree, surely?

I seem to recall that any "spontaneous" thermodynamic change involves an increase in entropy and is not reversible.

But that is the difference between an idealised individual physical interaction and the evolution of a thermodynamic ensemble.

I assume what he or she is getting at is the idea of entropy increase as the "arrow of time" and all that.

 

[Asexperia]

NATURE OF TIME

Time is the duration of things subject to change.

Time is perceived as a continuous sequence of irreversible moments.

Time is measured by counting sequential intervals of equal duration.

The Chromnesia is the record of the passage of time in the brain. History, Chronology and Philochrony
Are part of the Chromnesia.

 

[Asexperia]

NATURE OF TIME

Time is the duration of things subject to change.

Time is perceived as a continuous sequence of irreversible moments.

Time is measured by counting sequential intervals of equal duration.

The Chromnesia is the registry of the passage of time in the brain. History, Chronology
and Philochrony are part of the Chromnesia.

 

[origin]

NATURE OF TIME

Time is the duration of things subject to change.

Time is perceived as a continuous sequence of irreversible moments.

Time is measured by counting sequential intervals of equal duration.

The Chromnesia is the registry of the passage of time in the brain. History, Chronology
and Philochrony are part of the Chromnesia.

You have been repeating essentially the same thing for 38 pages. And what you are saying is trivially obvious. Is there a point to this?

 

[Asexperia]

You have been repeating essentially the same thing for 38 pages. And what you are saying is trivially obvious. Is there a point to this?

Maybe You are right.

If it were so obvious there would not be so many opinions about time.

 

[Write4U]

Maybe You are right.
If it were so obvious there would not be so many opinions about time.

Maybe Sibilia's perspective is all there is to it. It certainly agrees with my perspective that time is a result of duration, not an a priori causal imperative in and of itself. IOW, a simultaneous by-product, emerging as the chronological duration of events.

This aspect leads to the concept that time is not an "independent" dimension, but a *permittive condition " which allows for chronological events to occur, along with their associated *time-lines, including a timeline of the duration of space itself (spacetime)

It seems logical that the very fundamental aspects and functions of spacetime have to be based on simple *principles*. Why make it unnecessarily complex?

We can even apply this in Darwinian terms, evolution is the gradual process of change emerging from simple extant elements and environments, along with related chronological passage (emergence) of time following every evolutionary branch, all within the Universal Pilot Wave with its own associated Universal time frame..

Universal timeframe = emergent 4th dimension, chronological duration of ALL creative processes in a fundamentally permmitive condition.
.

 

[river]

NATURE OF TIME

Time is the duration of things subject to change.

Time is perceived as a continuous sequence of irreversible moments.

Time is measured by counting sequential intervals of equal duration.

The Chromnesia is the registry of the passage of time in the brain. History, Chronology
and Philochrony are part of the Chromnesia.

Yes ( in the bold )

That all the time is , the measured duration of the movement of objects .

 

[Write4U]

Yes ( in the bold )

That all the time is , the measured duration of the movement of objects .

I have a small qualification. The duration of dynamic events comes into existence, regardless of measurement, by any means.

 

[river]

I have a small qualification. The duration of dynamic events comes into existence, regardless of measurement, by any means.

Absolutely

 

[Michael 345]

NATURE OF TIME

Time is the duration of things subject to change.

Time is perceived as a continuous sequence of irreversible moments.

Time is measured by counting sequential intervals of equal duration.

The Chromnesia is the registry of the passage of time in the brain. History, Chronology
and Philochrony are part of the Chromnesia.

Yes ( in the bold )

That all the time is , the measured duration of the movement of objects .

I have a small qualification. The duration of dynamic events comes into existence, regardless of measurement, by any means.

Absolutely

Please note

duration

Time is measured by counting sequential intervals of equal duration

Incorrect

AGE is measured in various arbitrary units some of which are portions of others or multiples of others

AGE is not TIME

measured

measured duration of the movement of objects

Incorrect

Movement not required

Unless you are meaning subatomic movement, which is a given, as no object exist which does not have subatomic movement

If you mean macro movement - not required

duration of dynamic events comes into existence

Duration has no physical existence

A CRITICAL property of existence is to have a physical presence

 

[river]

Please note

duration

Time is measured by counting sequential intervals of equal duration

Incorrect

AGE is measured in various arbitrary units some of which are portions of others or multiples of others

AGE is not TIME

measured

measured duration of the movement of objects

Incorrect

Movement not required

Unless you are meaning subatomic movement, which is a given, as no object exist which does not have subatomic movement

If you mean macro movement - not required

duration of dynamic events comes into existence

Duration has no physical existence

A CRITICAL property of existence is to have a physical presence

What is duration to you ?

 

[Michael 345]

What is duration to you ?

Age

 

[river]

Age

How does age define duration ?

 

[Michael 345]

How does age define duration ?

Seriously?

How long have you endured up to this current moment?

 

[river]

Seriously?

How long have you endured up to this current moment?

Years .