Is Time an Illusion? - The Science of Time Explained

Is time an illusion is a question asked even by ancient philosophers. But only physicists of the 20th century began to take the possibility of time being an illusion seriously. Albert Einstein with his general theory of relativity has shown us that time is fluid and is effected by gravity and velocity. Einstein is also known for his quote "The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion". To learn more about the nature of time and the science of time, watch the video and don't forget to subscribe for more videos like this.

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[christianortiz]

The more we think we know more about this life is the more we really don’t know

[landonshores]

What blows my mind about time is we have millions of moments encapsulated in our memory, which remain dormant unless we decide to recall them. For example, if a friend says, "What were you doing October 2004?" you may not be able to elaborate on "exact" sequence of events, but you can come up with, "I was living in Seattle, working at XYZ, and was dating Suzie Q." If this specific period was not brought up, you may never have recalled that the rest of your life.

[mishmash]

I love learning random quantum physics facts, that I cannot, for the life of me, wrap my head around
Like my brain hurts, but I love it.

[stargod]

Man created time, And because of this, We suffer a paralyzing fear that no other animal endures. The fear of time running out.

[terryhoole]

I was late for my job interview the interviewer said you are late I said there is no such thing as time it is an illusion I did not get the job

[randallgoeswhere]

It explained it alright. In a way that made no sense whatsoever to me and now Im even more confused.

[gregleal]

Idk why but It's truly gratifying seeing so many people actually realizing that we don't know shit. As smart as we are there's no possiblity for us to fully understand why we are perceiving time linearly instead of like a strip of film. I think there's a chance are perception changes when our conscious leaves our body. Felt something before I can't explain but it really has me believing this.

[todarotlck]

This whole concept really hurt my brain. I think i am starting to understand that memories of the past are in our mind at this exact second and we create the illusion that it is something that happened long ago. But really the tapes and memories are playing in this exact second. In our cells and in our mind.

Same with the future. We only think the future is out there but really it is playing in our minds in this exact second. It feels really uncomfortable having this whole structure and illusion crumble before my very eyes but I think I am starting to get it.
It is about bringing the gap.
It definately releases a lot of the energy around regret of the past and worry of the future as well as the stories I have made up. I guess it wil just take time for my head to catch up with the universal truth.

I think the hardest part of this whole thing is seeing that I had been lying to myslef about the illusion. I know why... it is a tough pill to swallow. Egads!!

Anyone else feeling this confusion and conflict?

[peacehope]

I've always had a problem with old father time. The cruel nature of it slipping through our fingers, no opportunity (seemingly) to press rewind and undo mistakes 😔
So, I find the concept of it not being real extremely comforting 😊

[mackebest]

time is just a measurement we made up to measure movement

[lucasmicheleto]

Time is an abstraction of a "tranformation" perception. Clocks just measures cicle movements.

[lenaackerman]

it all connects. makes sense as to why some say your goals/desired life is already here!
because we are living our futures, past & present.
it makes so much sense and ever since I was a child, ive always questioned time. To think time is real is hilarious and so many humans are limited by it.

[barbariansinbattle]

So weird to think that time could just be a human construct. Also that other civilizations out there in this gigantic universe might not even know what "time" is? That's difficult to wrap the mind around. We as humans base our entire lives around "time."

[starsandmoon]

It's literally "the more you say, the less I know" situation.
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[dloren]

Time is that thing when you click a YouTube video and you think its about to start but an ad comes on so you sit there with your finger hovering the skip ad
-Albert Einstein

[mindremapping-themindsmirr]

Time is only an illusion if you use the prospect of time moving from the past to the future (forward). Time expands outwards just like how the universe expands, and within the space of the universe, we can move around in any direction, which alter the movement of time. For us time is spherical.

[reptilian]

Once you realize time isn't real you will truly be free even from the fear of death

[OneWrongFamily]

The methodology of a speculative temporal philosophy

With the scientific development pointing into a certain direction across various disciplines, that time could only be an illusion, accompanied by a societal consensus vis-a-vis this conception, i decided to try and concept a new view on the philosphy of timelessness.

Asking yourself anything, being the main tool of all of philosphy, the questions that are being stated by a philosophy of timelessness are going to represent the core of this treatment. For some of them, first approaches are going to be delivered, which are to be executed at another point. This way, a first conception of this philosophy is to be proposed, and the foundation of the methodological framework for further considerations to be layed down.

The first obstacle to be overcome is the language. Besides others, the first ones to encounter some difficulties are the ones who try to define the nature of timelessness using a language which fundamental structure depends on the temporal order of being things.

Considering this, all expressions that are to be viewed on the background of timelessness, will be accompanied by a corresponding reference or a new term will be introduced.

The understanding of those terms, demands a high level of cognitive devotion to the following premise:

Time does only exist as a mental construct.

Regarding the previously stated warning, it is the language that creates a mental contradiction by speaking these words.

But since time cant be eliminated on a cognitive level, it is not yet necessary to predict an attack on the day to day semiotics.

But since we just eliminated time from a physical level, some of the rather intuitiv answers to simple questions seem not to be applicable anymore and other previously not even thought of questions seem to be pressing for an elegant solution.

Imagine a physical world without time, a consortium of from one another least possibly different nows, only connected through the laws of nature.

Every one of those nows would be equal in the face of timelessness and all of them would be happening simultaneously.

But there are nows, that include time, and it are those ones which include intelligent life itself.

Since intelligent life has to be made possible by selfawareness, and it itself needs a concept of a past and future self, u cant speak of single nows but rather a now complex.

Since there is no temporal Order of things, common physical equations have to be translated into the language of temporal philosophy as seen below:

A system moving at the speed v changes its state at a rate lower by a facotr of (1 − v2/c2)−1/2

than the system in the rest frame, meaning that every human life( if and as long as it has a concept of time )represents such a now complex, in which time is to be found, but only within the boundaries of the associated mind.

If the human consciousness moves in time, but the corresponding body itself does not, the conclusion is to be drawn, that at smaller mergers of nows within the human now complex, there are separate consciousnesses feeling the journey through time.

Therefore it has to be calculable how many of those conscious states a human now complex includes and therefore how often one appears in his own life.

The respective subject is then limited by time, constructed of almost innurable states of consciousness, all regarding themselves as the real present one, for eternity.

To put it in simpler terms: Your life is like a book, with the pages torn out and distributed on the floor. Every single page does exist equally next to the other, for ever.

Death can be defined as the first now of human now complex, from which on all following nows of that complex are not able to simulate the associated consciousness in relation to all other systems of the universe. This topic will be further discussed in the chapter devoted to the language analytics of the temporal Philosophy.

Going further into the book metaphor, you have a Universe consisting of several books, one them you, and the rate at which you read one book in relation to another is only determined by gravity and speed, the direction in which it is read by the laws of thermodynamics, the physical foundation will be specified at a given time. You should have a clearer pictures now, about the fundamental laws that determine this philosophy and to not stretch this introduction unnecessary i am now going to state the various forms of life that will be at the center of this philosophy.

It is defined by its relation to time and its perception and the practical part of this philosophy will be devoted to finding a series of demands u can set for interactions with the different kinds of life.

It will take some effort and will be discussed in different parts of this treatment but we will be able to split life into 4 categories:

unaware life
Aware life
Selfaware life
Selfaware life aware of timelessnes
Intuitivly less accessible and harder to visualize is going the be the approach to put a moral value on certain action, since the calculation will be determined by variable views on time, simply because life of every categories includes certain aspects of the previous categories and you will have to consider all possible angles on time before even trying on depicting a normative ethics of timelessness.

For the introduction into the temporal philosophy it will be enough to have a basic understanding of classical physics, thermodynamics and relativity. Quantummechanics will be introduced at a later stage to help us save the problem of the eternal return and derive the free will.

The speculative nature of this philosophy lays within the fact, that there is no scientific prove of its premise at the time this is being written and it therefore does not claim any sort of legitimation or applicability in the present moment.

I do think however, that a willing reader will have to accept the fact that a lot of things would have to change in human interaction if this premise is proven at a certain point and in the cultural evolution of every temporal philosophy it will be stated why a civilization is only able to conduct this thought process at a certain point of its development and even later will be able to accept its conclusions .

Aim of the methodology of the speculative temporal philosophy shall be: to present a perhaps purely biological distinction between the various layers of life made possible through a metaphysical framework in concurrence with and through current physical theories, along with the existing parameters respective to the aforementioned metaphysics study, as a basis for my chief work.

[RANDOMNPC]

Even what we humans as a rational being claim to be logic is relative, for example mathematics or the standard laws of physics, because we can't be sure if what we know also applies in all locations and times in the universe, multiverse or even in every dimension (also the ones that we don't know) and we'll probably never know. So the statement "everything is relative" is irrefutable even if we're talking in a formal or scientific context. Hence there's no such absolute or final truth because knowledge is infinite and it depends on the observer's perspective as well since our brains are programmed to work in a certain way. For example, the color of random things like the ocean, human blood, apple, sand, sun and probably everything, since different beings see different colors because their brain programming.

[boxer]

I often answer questions in a foreign accent, using a bunch of big words, and talk in circles to make it sound as if I know more than others to confuse the situation as well