That is how I see things: Time is a substance. Think of two times that move away from each other and consider that you are traveling on one of them. If you go back in time you reach the beginning when two times collapse and cancel each other. The moment of the beginning was the point that there was nothing, therefore. The moment that not one but at least two worlds popped up after the beginning, matter and antimatter being the material in these two different worlds as we need that they cancel each other too. You have two times so you can define a direction by two times too.UniversalAlien wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 2:17 amCan you elaborate on this? - What do you mean by 'two times each in a world.' ?
How time can only exist at now and yet has a direction?
Re: How time can only exist at now and yet has a direction?
Re: How time can only exist at now and yet has a direction?
To me now is when that time exists by definition.Walker wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 9:52 amNow is where time does not exist.bahman wrote: ↑Mon Sep 16, 2019 10:59 pm I think we can agree on the arrow of time which tells us that there is a direction in time. Time, however, exists at one point so-called now, the past is collective memory and the future does not exist objectively. My question is how time can have a direction if it only exists at one point? That is a problem since you need two objective points (by two objective points I mean two points which both exist) to define a direction.
Re: How time can only exist at now and yet has a direction?
There is a direction when you have got two times that moving away from each other.Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 2:13 pm Time doesn't actually have a "direction," that's just a metaphorical way of thinking about it.
Change has a direction. Now is not changes.Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 2:13 pm It doesn't make sense to say that change has a "direction" really. It's just change, however things change. If something changes "back to how it was," that's still just change (and it's not literally identical when it changes back; it's just a change that resembles how something was).
"Now" is just the changes that are occurring in a particular reference frame, and that reference frame includes different "scopes" or "scales"--a la degrees of detail and/or broadness of frame, with respect to the changes that are happening. So the changes happening, as opposed to changes that happened already, from the reference frame of something like an electron will be different than the changes that are happening from the reference from of consciousness.
Re: How time can only exist at now and yet has a direction?
You can see a train on a rail, and the motion is obvious. Now you see it now you don't.bahman wrote: ↑Mon Sep 16, 2019 10:59 pm I think we can agree on the arrow of time which tells us that there is a direction in time. Time, however, exists at one point so-called now, the past is collective memory and the future does not exist objectively. My question is how time can have a direction if it only exists at one point? That is a problem since you need two objective points (by two objective points I mean two points which both exist) to define a direction.
But we are all on the train, it is moving but we are moving with it, and so have no impression of motion. Such is the case with TIME>
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Re: How time can only exist at now and yet has a direction?
Times don't "move away from each other." It's just that changes can happen at different relative rates in different reference frames.bahman wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 8:01 pmThere is a direction when you have got two times that moving away from each other.Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 2:13 pm Time doesn't actually have a "direction," that's just a metaphorical way of thinking about it.
No it doesn't.Change has a direction.
Yes it is. Time is just change, period.Now is not changes.
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Re: How time can only exist at now and yet has a direction?
You might want to think about this.
This statement indicates to me how you think about things. You are thinking backwards.
It is not true to say that the arrow of time tells us there is a direction to time.
Our understanding of time is the reason we call it an arrow of time.
When you understand this difference you might be better equipped to ask your question.
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Re: How time can only exist at now and yet has a direction?
bahman, if you were to keep your claim to yourself, I would only say, “Whatever floats your boat or gets you through the day could be okay for you alone.”bahman wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 7:43 pmThat is how I see things: Time is a substance. Think of two times that move away from each other and consider that you are traveling on one of them. If you go back in time you reach the beginning when two times collapse and cancel each other. The moment of the beginning was the point that there was nothing, therefore. The moment that not one but at least two worlds popped up after the beginning, matter and antimatter being the material in these two different worlds as we need that they cancel each other too. You have two times so you can define a direction by two times too.UniversalAlien wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 2:17 amCan you elaborate on this? - What do you mean by 'two times each in a world.' ?
But time is not a substance; it is a concept in the minds of humans. This invalidates the whole of your thoughts on time here.
Re: How time can only exist at now and yet has a direction?
Ok, so?Sculptor wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 9:44 pmYou can see a train on a rail, and the motion is obvious.bahman wrote: ↑Mon Sep 16, 2019 10:59 pm I think we can agree on the arrow of time which tells us that there is a direction in time. Time, however, exists at one point so-called now, the past is collective memory and the future does not exist objectively. My question is how time can have a direction if it only exists at one point? That is a problem since you need two objective points (by two objective points I mean two points which both exist) to define a direction.
What do you mean?
What do you mean?
Re: How time can only exist at now and yet has a direction?
I said you can define direction if you have two times that move away from each other.Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 11:41 pmTimes don't "move away from each other." It's just that changes can happen at different relative rates in different reference frames.bahman wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 8:01 pmThere is a direction when you have got two times that moving away from each other.Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 2:13 pm Time doesn't actually have a "direction," that's just a metaphorical way of thinking about it.
No.
Now changes but now is not changes.Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 11:41 pmYes it is. Time is just change, period.Now is not changes.
Re: How time can only exist at now and yet has a direction?
Arrow has a direction.Sculptor wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 11:41 amYou might want to think about this.
This statement indicates to me how you think about things. You are thinking backwards.
It is not true to say that the arrow of time tells us there is a direction to time.
Our understanding of time is the reason we call it an arrow of time.
When you understand this difference you might be better equipped to ask your question.
Re: How time can only exist at now and yet has a direction?
Time bend and can store information within in form of the gravitational wave.commonsense wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 2:49 pmbahman, if you were to keep your claim to yourself, I would only say, “Whatever floats your boat or gets you through the day could be okay for you alone.”bahman wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 7:43 pmThat is how I see things: Time is a substance. Think of two times that move away from each other and consider that you are traveling on one of them. If you go back in time you reach the beginning when two times collapse and cancel each other. The moment of the beginning was the point that there was nothing, therefore. The moment that not one but at least two worlds popped up after the beginning, matter and antimatter being the material in these two different worlds as we need that they cancel each other too. You have two times so you can define a direction by two times too.UniversalAlien wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 2:17 am
Can you elaborate on this? - What do you mean by 'two times each in a world.' ?
But time is not a substance; it is a concept in the minds of humans. This invalidates the whole of your thoughts on time here.
Re: How time can only exist at now and yet has a direction?
Try and thinkbahman wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 7:38 pmOk, so?Sculptor wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 9:44 pmYou can see a train on a rail, and the motion is obvious.bahman wrote: ↑Mon Sep 16, 2019 10:59 pm I think we can agree on the arrow of time which tells us that there is a direction in time. Time, however, exists at one point so-called now, the past is collective memory and the future does not exist objectively. My question is how time can have a direction if it only exists at one point? That is a problem since you need two objective points (by two objective points I mean two points which both exist) to define a direction.
What do you mean?
What do you mean?
Re: How time can only exist at now and yet has a direction?
Not necessarily.bahman wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 8:02 pmArrow has a direction.Sculptor wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 11:41 amYou might want to think about this.
This statement indicates to me how you think about things. You are thinking backwards.
It is not true to say that the arrow of time tells us there is a direction to time.
Our understanding of time is the reason we call it an arrow of time.
When you understand this difference you might be better equipped to ask your question.
But worst still not relevant, since you can't understand what I am talking about.
Take this away with you. TIME IS NOT A ARROW.
An arrow is an arrow.
Re: How time can only exist at now and yet has a direction?
Re: How time can only exist at now and yet has a direction?
You don't understand what I am talking about.Sculptor wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 8:21 pmNot necessarily.bahman wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 8:02 pmArrow has a direction.Sculptor wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 11:41 am
You might want to think about this.
This statement indicates to me how you think about things. You are thinking backwards.
It is not true to say that the arrow of time tells us there is a direction to time.
Our understanding of time is the reason we call it an arrow of time.
When you understand this difference you might be better equipped to ask your question.
But worst still not relevant, since you can't understand what I am talking about.
Take this away with you. TIME IS NOT A ARROW.
An arrow is an arrow.