Lee Smolin - The Nature of Time

[Sam_Utah]

"The Flow of time is the most true thing we know. Time is the most real thing we know." Charles Muses once explained that time is the fundamental dimension - a moment in time includes all space while a point of space does not include all time. Therefore time is larger and most fundamental.

[sreenathc]

Time I think is an outcome of causation….which is a outcome of motion….so, if there is no motion, there is no time. Imagine a box containing one hydrogen atom and we are a viewer….…as long as the electron is moving about the atom, there is a passing of time as the motion of the electron is a motion that has created a causation that in turn creates a different picture of the atom and we assume time has passed…..if the electron should stop moving altogether(assuming that the proton, neutron etc are also frozen) time for the hydrogen atom does not exist. Even though as an observer of the atom, we continue to experience time as we see that causation in the atom has stopped in our view.

[GradyPhilpott]

Smolin is the most interesting physicist that I know of and I've only been aware of him for just a few years. Each time I listen to one of his lectures or interviews, even if it's one I've seen before, I come away with a new possible perspective. As a non-physicist, my view of time is primitive and while I don't claim that time is an illusion, I see time as a way for humans to calibrate change into a meaningful form. Time is one construct we use to measure change and it is change that is the most real thing in the universe. I intend to keep listening to Smolin and reading his works, because he convinces me that his view has merit that is beyond my current ability to comprhend and that there is much I need to learn in order to develop a better understanding of our world.

[wrathofgrothendieck]

Time’s a bitch and then we die, that’s why we get high.

[irrelevant]

On 13:33, Lee makes a statement that "Quantum mechanics is not deterministic"; in other words, random suggesting that this is fact. This statement supports the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics which is fine but it's not fact and is only a theory. Just because a human is unable to know the outcome of a quantum event doesn't prove that true randomness exists. If the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics was fact, then no one would be talking about and supporting other theories of quantum mechanics such as Bohmian mechanics (a.k.a. pilot wave theory) or the many-worlds interpretation where both of these interpretations are deterministic and not random.

[johnsmith]

clear as mud? it was perfectly clear and concise.

[TenzinLundrup]

13:20 If we knew what Law selected the laws of physics, then we would want to know what selected that Law.

[vettejoevette]

Time did not matter on Earth until plant life started to migrate to the land and rely on the sun for energy (versus areas of heat and cold under the water). Once sunlight became crucial to existence, and procreation of plant life, there had to be an awareness of simplistic time in terms of day and night. As other forms of life evolved, this concept of day and night became more crucial to adaptation, survival, procreation and evolution.

[davidmayhew]

Is there a word that denotes all the knowledge and laws that we have yet to discover? How much of the world have we discovered? Someone once said "time exist so everything doesn't happen at the same time".

[showponyexpressify]

This is awesome.... An open future, all things connected, novelty and creative laws. This all sounds like Alfred North Whitehead circa 1925.

[frontech]

What if : Time is a "thing" absorbed? "Time fat"= old.
What if : Time becomes Space, mass/energy?
What if : Time IS "everything happening all at once", Space, mass/energy, emerge as change occurs.
Space, in between the actual mass of our physical forms, is vast. Is it always the same Space?
What if : Space and Time pass though/into us instead of the opposite?
What if: We are animals chasing laser-pointer dots?

[idegteke]

If you consider our discoverable universe (as a thought experience) to be an AI system, then space-time is the address in the storage, while matter-energy is analogous with the stored data. In both cases, however, we are missing the point if we are focusing on these arbitrary components (like space-time/address or matter-energy/data) – the point is the common element that won’t change from implementation to implementation (whether it’s a particle, an atom, a molecule, a lipid or amino acid or protein or cells even neuron or nerve or conscious person) and this common element is the purpose of that particular level of complexity from the quasi fundamental things (“who” only want to stably exist) to the most sophisticated of all things we can ever physically experience, our consciousness (“who” only want to know why), or might I rather call consciousness an intelligent self-awareness or even the duality of the capability of and the motivation to evaluate ourselves while looking into the mirror we call our surroundings. I’m currently making this word salad into a functional code (a game application or, rather, a network of players who will potentially be able to act as intelligence donors) that actually works: gradually filling up storage address and stored content (lynobites) storing NOT data, NOT algorithms but actual, tangible intelligence. At least, you will definitely hear about it once I happen to succeed:)

[jonnyfevertv]

Since there was no “time” before the Big Bang, I’ve surmised that there was infinite “time” for the initial circumstances needed for Universe was/is inevitable. JMO

Does this open the door for God? Yes.

[timetraveler]

It is in Time that we experience and discuss things such as abstractions. Has the past not given unto us the present, how long will we live in the future before realizing we're already there? Everyone has plans, but realizing that this creation has a CREATOR, His plans for HIS creation supercede every other plan🕎🕎🕐🕐🌅🌅🤴🤴⚓⚓🔱🔱🌊🌊🐬🐬🚀🚀🌌🌌

[cbsn]

LAW: I used to think, this word is more fundamental in Physics. I used to feel, if “God” had ordained Laws, then He wouldn’t violate them ever (within or outside the range the Laws are meant for), He would be the last Magician, or even, there would be no magic.
2. There can be scale-dependent Law. Similarly of course, laws encountered in physics, chemistry, biology, geology, et seq.
3. Why we are finding it difficult to easily-explain the physical availability of space and time? If we can think we are easily explaing mass, energy, and even charge (and Temperature?)

[batmandeltaforce]

There was no "beginning". Creation is NOW. WE, and everything else, channel Consciousness from Source, in real Time. Consciousness builds our reality in real time. That process is what we perceive as the passing of Time. Creation is Time.

[TheBinaryUniverse]

Agree, time is a real, physical process of evolution of any system.

If you're hopeful of a new theory as you say, then why don't you read my book;- The Binary Universe - A Theory of Time.

I already sent you a copy but got no response so you'll have to buy another.

I believe...Time is: A measure of change in the entire existing universe, caused by the motion of matter/energy/space expansion in relation to itself. Because time is founded in motion, time is relative to speed. Time and space are the same in that space itself is expanding, thus moving, movement is change, and time is simply a measurement of that change. So time is as real as space and it’s motion of expansion. Not so difficult to understand really.

[magnomaxx]

Time is the most real thing on the Universe!

[James-xuvc]

Time is governed by the 2nd law of thermodynamics.
And this was triggered when God cursed the universe when Adam and Eve sinned. 😢