What time is for me

Unlimiter June 13, 2020 at 22:21 2450 views 6 comments

The universe is defined by two things: matter and action.
Time for me is no more than the difference between matter doing a number of actions. More time means more actions, and vice versa.
Humans thought of time travel because they experienced memories.
Time is just a concept and not something without which the universe cannot exist, like matter and actions.

Comments (6)

Richard Bronson June 16, 2020 at 19:04 #424455 0 likes

I'm not sure I agree. It seems to me that actions are causally connected sequences of states. The action of throwing a fastball starts with the pitcher's windup and ends when the ball comes to rest in the catcher's mit. An action is an incremental set of change to the state of an object over time. I'm having a hard time imagining instantaneous actions.

What do you think?

Lida Rose June 16, 2020 at 20:17 #424471 0 likes

Aside from the old saw that time exists to keep everything from happening at once, it only exists where successive events occurs. If absolutely nothing, and I mean a b s o l u t e l y n-o-t-h-i-n-g occurs then time. " a nonspatial continuum that is measured in terms of events which succeed one another from past through present to future." does flow (exist).

elphidium55 June 17, 2020 at 22:36 #424722 0 likes

@LidaRose states:
If absolutely nothing ... occurs then time ... does flow (exist).

I would think that absolute nothingness would lack everything, including time. I'm guessing this is a typo.

Benj96 June 18, 2020 at 20:26 #425014 0 likes

Reply to Unlimiter "action" or "change" I would have said is the product of interplay between energy and time. No energy + all time = no change, and similarly all energy + no time = no change either. Only when energy and time are in some ratio between but not including 1 and 0 does anything actually happen "act".

aRealidealist June 18, 2020 at 20:44 #425022 0 likes

Reply to Benj96 “Energy,” based on E = mc2, is inconceivable without time; such that it can’t be separate from it, in order to be eventually combined with it. For energy is a product of mass in motion, & motion, as change of place, is time-dependent. Thus (all) energy without time, i.e., with “no time,” by definition, is inconceivable.

Benj96 June 18, 2020 at 21:44 #425035 0 likes

Quoting aRealidealist

Energy,” based on E = mc2, is inconceivable without time;

Energy as "change" or the "act of doing" is for sure inconceivable without time as to accomplish anything one needs time, however energy as "potential" to do work is not dependent on time I would say. As the potential/possibility to do work is not the same as "doing" work.

Consider it this way; if I have 20 kilojoules of energy act over the course of 10 seconds that wont be the same as the same 20 kilojoules acting over the course of 10 years. This is essentially differences in the "power".

So despite energy requiring time to act... the rate (or magnitude or intensity) of energy can be as described as a ratio of energy or work done over time.