I don't like time.

As OldGuy points out, this isn’t a new idea at all. What more do you have than your words to demonstrate this to be the case?

Hell, even I’m not opposed to the idea. But yet, even if time were an illusion in some form, you’d need to show how.

So far, you’ve said a lot of timey-wimey wordy-words. Anyone can do that.

Time and movement are closely intertwined and dependent on each other. You can’t have one without the other.

You can’t, for example, design a clock that has no moving parts. Even a digital clock has moving parts (albeit electrons).

Furthermore, time can be defined as the displacement of an object relative to the displacement of another object. When an object moves from Point A to Point B, we say it “takes time” for it to move from Point A to Point B. But relative to what? Well, relative to something else that moved from Point C to Point D.

Chew on that awhile. :slight_smile:

And he says that time is all wibbly-wobbly. Kind of messy. Not linear at all. It gets kind of confusing, to be honest.

Crafter Man.
Movement is not dependent or entwined with time.
An input of energy may cause a mass to move. Gravity from a mass may cause a mass to move. Time is not required as an ingredient or force for movement to happen.
You can say that the energy or gravity effects can be input over a period of time. But that is not creating or consuming time, or requiring it as some sort of medium of transfer.
I agree, a clock must have moving parts. The parts move in relation to mass and energy interactions. Not time. We construct the clock to provide regular mass energy interactions, so we can compare them to other energy mass interactions. Like getting our mass out of bed at the same point of rotation of our planetary mass.

You’re wrong. If time isn’t involved then you simply have a situation where objects exist simultaneously.

Thinking about moving a car around in a parking lot. There is a situation where the car is parked in space #1. And there is a situation where the car is parked in space #2. These are two different situations. And they cannot occur simultaneously. So the transition from one to the other creates time. The situation where the car was parked in space #1 occurred and then the situation where the car was parked in space #2 occurred. You have periods before the situation existed, periods when the situation existed, and periods after the situation existed. If you have more than one situation, you have one situation occurring before the other. You’ve established a chronology. Time is created by events beginning and events ending and events occurred before or after other events.

You can’t say the car is moved without having time involved. If time isn’t involved then the car is always located in space #1 and it is always located in space #2.

If there’s no time, then we’re all already dead and this discussion is moot.

Oh, sure. Every other day, it seems someone brings up the idea that there’s no such thing as time.

Build me a Time Machine and I’ll pay you for it yesterday.

People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective point of view, time is more like a big ball of wibbily wobbly timey wimey … stuff.

“He’s murdering time! Off with his head!” - QoH

If there’s no time, then we’ve always been alive and we always will be alive. Our current status cannot change because there’s no point of existence other than now.

But what about Schrödinger’s Time?

What about Hammer Time?

Forces act on a car to set it in motion, forces change it’s vectors. Then forces bring it to a stop. Time is not created.
If time is created by events. Then there is no time if there are no events. Where does the time go to, when the events stop? Where does the time come from when events occur?
If one object of mass exists. Nothing else exists. What measures the passage of time? What creates time? Even if a second mass comes into existence, there is no time span between the appearance of the two masses. But now, there is effect of gravity and possibly energy between the two masses. Still no time. The two masses may now approach each other due to gravitational forces. But there is no way to measure a time, or therefor to calculate a velocity. Only gravitational force at a given instant.
Most of all. There is nobody with memory to observe. To mark a point by construction of neural pathways, then make another neural pathway, in a framework of neural pathways that can relate one being constructed after the other.
The two masses interact only in the forces they exert on each other. Time is irrelevant and nonexistent.

I encourage folks to read a book by Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett called The Mind’s I.
The stories and essays play with your mind and many concepts.
Read them all in order, to prepare for the last chapter, Einsteins Brain.
It does a good job of destroying the idea of time, self, etc.
I have given many copies away to friends and a stranger too.
I ask them read the first story as I wait. Just to see it happen.