Einstein and Time (Humans)

by dhw, Friday, February 10, 2012, 11:25 (4421 days ago) @ David Turell

Matt says time is not real.-DAVID: I understand his point. Time is a human invention. It is only real within that invention. Stop the clocks and we still go from one moment in time and reality to another. Time is our measurement of sequential events, based on division of the rotation of the Earth and its trip around the sun. The events exist, the sequence exists. That is real.-David, that is MY point. The divisions/measurements are man-made, but the sequence IS the reality of time. There is a before-and-after, a cause-effect-cause-effect, and a not yet existing future that becomes an existing present that becomes a no longer existing past. The sequence ... not 11.25 am, 10 February 2012 ... is what I see as the reality of time. If you don't agree, find me another word to describe that sequence.-But I still need to know Matt's criteria for reality.


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