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Will time exist, if there is no motion and movement in space?
I was wondering, if there was a situation that planets dont orbit and rotate, universe dont expand and to be precise matters dont travel through space, then how do we calculate time? Will time exist, if nothing moves in space and everything is stand still?
Note : I know its a wild imagination and it wont happen ever. And even if it happen, we wont exist. I just want to know that is time related to space.
As i said, it's impossible to even dream that there wont be any motion, but still i want you to suppose, imagine and answer.
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- 8 years agoFavorite Answer
Good insight . Your question is spot on .
Time is the measure of motion one day is the rotation of the earth 1 month is the orbit of our moon 1 year is the orbit of the Earth.
One second the swing of a pendulum the twist of a spring the vibration of a quartz crystal for the movement of Atoms.
All of these the measure of motion what we call time.
With no motion there would be no passage of time it would be like a picture a frozen image.
If you take it one step further what measures the motions ?
Even it things were moving with out a conscious thing to keep track of the movement there would be no time.
Time is really consciousness , thought .
What came up with the concept of time ?
- TroasaLv 78 years ago
We calculate the measurement of time several ways. Sometimes it is the length of an event or the measurement of motion. Other times it is the length of time between events when nothing happens.
What you are wanting to measure is the length of time when motion has stopped until some presumed point when something does once again move (even if that length of time reaches a percentage of infinity or has a starting point but no ending point).
The problem is that all of our methods of calculating time involve the use of motion. Whether it is a watch or a day or radiation decay or electrical impulses. So we are left with no method to track the length of non-motion (or the amount of time passing since motion ceased).
If every motion in the Universe stopped including brain functions and all other human physical functions which require motion then the length of that stoppage would be completely meaningless since every possible life form would cease to exist.
It is only life forms which can conceive of the concept of the passage of time. With no more life forms in existence time would have no meaning to any physical objects left.
- Bob D1Lv 78 years ago
("Will time exist, if there is no motion and movement in space?")
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I'm not a physicist, astronomer, or cosmologist but here's what I think:
There are two kinds of time; cosmic time and local orbital based time. Cosmic time is a scalar field and permeates the whole of the Universe. It is literally the beginning and end of the Universe. Human derived time, a time based upon repeated motion, symmetry, and the orbit of the Earth around the Sun, and the orbit of the Moon around Earth. Human derived time is a phenomenon of convenience. It has zero effect upon the rest of the Universe.
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Yes. Time exist everywhere in the Universe. Cosmic time is a scalar field, having magnitude but no direction. Force, displacement, velocity, acceleration, momentum, and kinetic energy (energy of motion) are all vectors, possessing both a magnitude and a specific direction and are related but still very different from cosmic time. In other words, if all motion in the Universe instantly stopped, cosmic time would still exist. However, if that should every happen because net energy in the Universe is zero (kinetic energy + (- potential energy)) = net energy = zero. If all motion stopped and kinetic energy went to zero, there would be nothing left except potential energy which is gravitational energy. It is very likely that under those condition the Universe would collapse in upon itself and by the pull of its own gravity fall into a singularity.
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Source(s): self - 6 years ago
Your question is spot on. Time is a concept. It only exists in the mind. Time is motion. No motion no time. Time is an attempt to keep track of every movement (change) in the universe at once. Everything in the universe is moving. As in Zen Bhuddism 'a raging river of change'. If the movement stopped we would have no way of knowing. It could have stopped many times during your lifetime. How would you know? You only know the next movement of the universe.
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- 8 years ago
You're basically asking does time exist without motion? Yes, but there would be no way to measure it, so it might as well not exist. It's like asking does space exist if there is no way to measure the distance between two points? Yes, but what would it matter?
- 8 years ago
I think it will not,
because when the planets stop to rotate arount stars or any objects stop to move in any direction means act of zero force,
there will be no change in any things as growth of beings , flying birds wont fall on earth surface due to zero force, heart beat will stop....
We can take an example of DVD player, when we pause, the whole system will stop as time activities of video...
Source(s): Imagination - 4 years ago
Time will nonetheless exist, i anticipate. Time will bypass by utilising because it continually does notwithstanding the times and nights in diverse planets will proceed to be comparable. for ex. if a planet is susceptible in direction of sunlight, it is going to proceed to be interior the comparable position and with "Time", it will now no longer exist by using no rotation and revolution anddue to consistent heating. i do be aware of, it is going to no longer happen yet i anticipate the respond on your query is instantly, that factor will nonetheless exist despite if or no longer there is any residing creature, or if there is any rotation or no longer. Time is a straightforward unit consistent with physics which capacity it does not count wide variety wide variety at the diverse unit, for this cause, it does not relies upon on flow. So, yeah, time will nonetheless exist.
- RossKLv 78 years ago
Atoms and molecules that are warmer than absolute zero vibrate in a certain period, based on temperature. Radioactive isotopes have a certain average decay rate. These effects can be detected and used to mark the passage of time.
- 8 years ago
motion is always relative and if everything ceases then there will be nothing to compare with to decide whether we are in motion or at rest so, ultimately time will also stop.