Heyo
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Because time exists.
Things don't necessarily gets better when they change, but things have to change to get better.
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Why does change exist ?
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wellwisher
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The entropy of the universe has to increase; 2nd law. While an increase in entropy absorbs energy. Since entropy has to always net increase, the universe is always losing/bleeding energy into the increasing entropy. The subsequent loss of universal free energy alters the parameters of the universe, everywhere, causing change, so things can adapt to the rise of entropy and the loss of energy.
Entropy has many things in common with time. Time moves in one direction; future. Time does not cycle like a wave. Time is more like a sloping line; time line. Entropy is similar in that it naturally has to increase over time; parallels time. If we stop time entropy will also stop. If we take a photo that stops time, change stops.
The concept of time is based on comparative change. The change caused by the ticks on a clock are defines as increments of time; second. Change allows us to perceive time. If nothing ever changed our perception of time would not exist. Luckily entropy forces change and allows us to see the turns on the helix of time; years sort of repeat, but also change with time; broken 3-D wave due to energy bleed.
Look at it this way. It is frivolous to ask why change exists when if it did not exist you couldn't even be asking the question. Or typing in a keyboard or touchpad. Or thinking. Or existing at all, really.
What you need to ask is why anything - the universe, time, space, everything - exists.
We don't know. It just does.
What you need to ask is why anything - the universe, time, space, everything - exists.
We don't know. It just does.
I think you have an odd idea if what entropy is. Sure it must increase but it is a measure of energy, not a user of energy. As far as is known the universe is not loosing energy but it is expanding, thus stretching that energy
Massimo2002
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Why does time exist ?
Heyo
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I don't know - and neither does anybody else. It seems to be just a "hard fact".
As is the fact that time only ever flows in one direction and that time is one dimensional.
Perhaps it has to so that things can happen?
RestlessSoul
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More to the point, things need to happen in the right order
RestlessSoul
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That’s how we experience time. But the fact that we cannot escape it’s flow, doesn’t mean it’s true nature is either linear or unidirectional.
The only law in all of physics which is not time-symmetrical, which is to say the only law that distinguishes between past and present, is the second law of thermodynamics. So then, in trying to answer the question “What is time” we arrive at the question “What is entropy?” And if entropy is in one sense a measure of the disorder in a system, what is order? And so on.
Nimos
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Speculating a bit here
Maybe it is because our perception or understanding of change is completely wrong from how it actually works. Because we have a tendency to look at things from our own perspective. But we are part of the Universe where the energy/matter stays the same, it merely rearranges itself, new stars, new people, some die etc. So from that perspective, nothing changes.
'Motion is the mode of existence of matter. Never anywhere has there been matter without motion, nor can there be.' -Engels, Anti-Duhring.
If we were to stop the world from moving and changing, we would cease to be.
Change is who we are
Change exists because time exists allowing motion to exist.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
As Alan Watts puts it, "Nature is wiggly".
People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a nonlinear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff.
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