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Kyle J
Lv 6
Kyle J asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 1 decade ago

I have several questions about time?

1) Is time an invention of the mind?

2) Does time only exists in the mind and doesn't exist in the physical world?

3) Does time exists only if change exists?

4) How can one say that change is constant? Why can't it change?

5) Is "Now" really a state of transition?

6) Is it a misconception that history covers only the past?

7) What is the metaphysical basis of the existence of time?

8) If time really exists, is it relative?

9) Is time travel possible?

10) Does the past and the future really exist?

11) When you answer my questions here, how would you say that you are spending your time answering?

Thank you.

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  • cera
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    i think time is just an easy way of categorising things and making more sense of the world. i mean only humans really take notice of time, other animals are completely oblivious, so i guess it is an invention of the human mind.

    i don't think it really exists in general, it just makes things more organised you know? things happen, gravity moves planets, dna replicates, the sun rises in the morning all without the need for time- time is sort of just like a human invention i think.

    time just marks a period of change, so i guess without change time wouldn't need to exist.

    i will jump ahead a few and answer your question on time travel. yes, according to stephen hawking time travel into the future is possible. if we travel in a spaceship (for example, any vessel really) which travels faster than the speed of light then one minute of travel will equal hours on earth. but traveling to the past is physically impossible. obviously it hasn't been done yet with people, but it has with electrons in think in a lab.

  • 1 decade ago

    If tme is an invention of the mind, then so is all of reality, and I don't believe it is. Scentists can estimate the age of the universe. We can determine the age of fossils. Most people agree that dinosaurs used to run around this planet, and they died a long time ago. You have witnessed a baby growing into a child, and a child into an adult. All these things happen in real time. If this answer seems a litle simplistic, it's because I think the question is a no-brainer.

  • Dude
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    This has been asked here so many times I can't even count any more. Since u can't be bothered to read old posts, I;m not sure y u think we should be bothered to post yet again.

    If time were an invention of the human mind, how would the universe have gotten to this point without a human mind around to order it? There's your basic answer

    read up on spacetime

  • Calico
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    Time only exist in a constant present.. We perceive a transition (past present and future) because we are transitional matter, "life cycle" I hope I have answered all your 11 questions.

  • Jack P
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    1] The mind is the invention of whatever time is.

    Too many other questions stacked atop a fundamentally flawed premise.

  • Liam
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    1)the concept is, but the fourth dimension is real

    2)dimensions arent physical, but are real

    3)no

    4)don't get this one

    5)yes

    6)no, history can't cover the future.

    7)huh?

    8)yes

    9)no, if it did, we'd know

    10)yes

  • B0X
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    1. no

    2. no

    3. no

    4. just like you said it

    5. no

    6. no

    7. illusion

    8. no

    9. no

    0. whatever

    You're welcome!0!

  • jo
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    time is the mind of space.

    Source(s): alexander
  • 1 decade ago

    Yes, yes & yes, no, the evidence supports the phrase & it does, no, yes, our own importance, yes, yes, no, thoughtfully.

  • Julia
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    whoops, sorry, too busy, can't answer now

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