Exploring the Concept of Time: A Scientific Perspective

[Rasalhague]

Or maybe Time is just nature's way of preventing everything from occurring at once?

There's a fun passage in The Cloud of Unknowing a mystical tract from 14th century England where the author argues exactly that (with God in place of nature, of course):

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[petm1]

How can you even discuss time when most of the people, each of which make up our common present, in the world think of it as not real. Time is a how we count intrinsic motion and it is a measure of duration the inverse of space in any direction. I must be crazy for thinking it is fundamental to our common reality because for most of the population it is a illusion and not real.

 

[JAlderman_FL]

Or maybe Time is just nature's way of preventing everything from occurring at once?

This is more in the arena of Consciousness. Depending on how succinct your discussion of time is, everything could quite literally be occurring at once. Your perception tells the tale, therefore occurrence seems more an issue of Consciousness.

 

[D N Wright]

Time does not exist - only the present configuration of the universe has ever and will ever exist. All else are human "records" that create the "emotion" of time.

 

[Evo]

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