What Does it Take For Time to Manifest Itself?

[sayak83]

The argument is if you don't see any change occurring does that mean time does not exist. It's a little more subtle and nuance argument that what I just said. I'm not Julian Barbour but that's the gist of it.

How can one see anything if no change is occuring.?

 

[dfnj]

How can one see anything if no change is occuring.?

That's the point of the argument. You should watch this video and stop making peanut gallery comments:

This guy is a physicist who has studied the nature of time his whole life. I am barely grasping what he is saying. But I believe his point of view on the subject is different than yours.

 

[Thief]

Consider:

a) Everything in the universe is at a complete standstill. There isn't a single movement occurring anywhere; not even at the atomic/subatomic level.* Can time be said to exist?

b) A single, lone atom arises in which its sole electron orbits its nucleus. At one moment it is here and at another moment it is there.* Does this mean time is now necessarily "running"?

c) If the answer to a is NO and if the answer to b is YES, does this mean that time is a function of movement/change of state? Perhaps even solely so?​

* I know this would mean stuff would not exist, but this is a thought problem, so bear with me.

* Yeah, yeah, I know.
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time is a measurement
movement is the item measured

no movement?.....nothing to be measrued
no time

 

[Skwim]

time is a measurement
movement is the item measured

no movement?.....nothing to be measrued
no time

Exactly.

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