# Evidence of Time

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-of-time/193458>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 6, 2003, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-of-time/193458 "2003-08-06T23:39:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-of-time/193458/21 "2003-08-07T10:56:05Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Mangetout \*  
> \*\*Time is what prevents things from all happening at once. You can’t really argue that it doesn’t exist. \*\*

I don’t think he was actually arguing that it didn’t exist, just that it couldn’t be proven to exist, or that it was a metaphysical construct.

I suppose I should pick up the Skeptic magazine myself and read it so that I could understand _his_ side of the argument.

Maybe he was referring to the Newtonian concept of absolute time, as Achernar suggests…

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**Author:** ![SentientMeat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SentientMeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SentientMeat)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-of-time/193458/22 "2003-08-07T11:12:45Z")

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**Mange** , very well, he is _explaining the illusion of time_. But I think he really does go further than Boltzmann’s “axis of events” to describe a truly _timeless_ universe (or multiverse).

Will let you know.

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