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Does time actually exist or is it merely a product of the human mind ?


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Interestingly enough, or at least to me, I met a lady who either lost time or it would compress it, she had to set multiple alarms to keep herself on track.  She said she was told it was a form of dyslexia. 

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The End of Time by Julian Barbour

An interesting and difficult read, convinced me time is an illusion.

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I had an interesting 'timeslip' experience once. I was riding my bicycle on a familiar route that I knew took about 30 minutes with landmarks along the way. It was a nice day, sunny & warm and I was enjoying the experience. Maybe I drifted off in my mind and missed various landmarks along the way but I suddenly saw a treeline that marked the end of the route but I was confused as I felt like I had only been riding for 15 mins or so. A classic case of what was mentioned in the story. Time flies when you're having fun it seems!
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I think adrenaline makes your perception of time slow down. I know when I've been in an accident, time seems to slow to a crawl. I once hit a deer driving on the freeway. I remember seeing the deer and immediately preparing myself to hit it. I recall thinking I hope that deer doesn't jump out and sure enough it did. It seemed like from the time I saw the deer till I hit it was maybe 10 seconds given how much I thought about... but in reality it was probably closer to one or two seconds at most.
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11 minutes ago, Edumakated said:

I think adrenaline makes your perception of time slow down. I know when I've been in an accident, time seems to slow to a crawl. I once hit a deer driving on the freeway. I remember seeing the deer and immediately preparing myself to hit it. I recall thinking I hope that deer doesn't jump out and sure enough it did. It seemed like from the time I saw the deer till I hit it was maybe 10 seconds given how much I thought about... but in reality it was probably closer to one or two seconds at most.

I had a similar experience while powersliding sideways over a cliff in a four wheel drive truck.  I remember the sensation of going too fast for the curve on a dirt road and the sudden jolt of hitting a rut, and then everything just slowed to almost a standstill.  As we flipped over and over again it was like slow motion.

Anyway, Einstein said that time does exist as a part of spacetime.

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It is a means of measure and nothing more but is useful as a tool or guide.

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9 hours ago, Guyver said:

I had a similar experience while powersliding sideways over a cliff in a four wheel drive truck.  I remember the sensation of going too fast for the curve on a dirt road and the sudden jolt of hitting a rut, and then everything just slowed to almost a standstill.  As we flipped over and over again it was like slow motion.

Anyway, Einstein said that time does exist as a part of spacetime.

Do you think this could be a defence mechanism to prepare yourself for the impact? Whatever it is it's interesting and I've heard this countless times from accident victims, including the mrs.

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13 minutes ago, openozy said:

Do you think this could be a defence mechanism to prepare yourself for the impact? Whatever it is it's interesting and I've heard this countless times from accident victims, including the mrs.

Yes.  That is very possible.  It could also be that our brains are working so fast at that moment that everything seems slow, but we are speeding up.  I was watching this new documentary series about ufo/uap and there was one case they were reviewing where the uap seemed to make a right turn at high speed and there was some film captured of it. They brought on an astrophysicist or someone to discuss how this could be possible is the time dilation principle that Einstein spoke of.  The faster you travel, the slower time moves.  So, the craft captured on film could be moving at a relative speed compared to ours that’s so fast we seem like we are moving in slow motion to it.

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Time is not an illusion if you need solid proof look around your home and locate a hammer. Now go outside and put your thumb face down on the concrete and smack it with that hammer. Write down the exact date and time right before you do it. Now tomorrow look at that piece of paper and think real hard about that exact moment and the pain that thumb experienced. And convince your thumb that was an illusion.
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Brian Greene interviews Julian Barbour on the nature of time.

 

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I never understand discussions about that time might not exist. Everything takes time, a thought takes time for example. Without time, nothing would happen, everything would be static. That is at least how I think but I might be thinking wrong.

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On 1/31/2025 at 4:59 PM, sanchez710 said:

I had an interesting 'timeslip' experience once. I was riding my bicycle on a familiar route that I knew took about 30 minutes with landmarks along the way. It was a nice day, sunny & warm and I was enjoying the experience. Maybe I drifted off in my mind and missed various landmarks along the way but I suddenly saw a treeline that marked the end of the route but I was confused as I felt like I had only been riding for 15 mins or so. A classic case of what was mentioned in the story. Time flies when you're having fun it seems!

Its all about when you wonder off in the mind.

That`s when all the strange experiences start happening. I think what happens is when something stops consciously registering (like where you are) the weirdness creeps in with it.

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The concept of time itself is a construct of humans. We base time on the rotation of the earth around the sun and the moon around the earth to calculate our months and years. We break it down into hours and minutes to measure our daily activities and when to sleep, work etc. Time itself is possibly not linear as some indigenous cultures view existence as a loop and everything is 'now'. No past or future,  only 'now' exists. The present is all there is. That's a cool way to view it!

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