/sci/ - Science & Math

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>But there is no passage of time, time could be running backwards for all you know
There is no implication of directionality. The measurable time of science and of civilized life generally merely exhibits some aspects of the more fundamental fact of the passage of nature. It is in virtue of its passage that nature is always moving on.
>there are only events which come after previous events with no discrete separation, ergo with no time
The causal outcomes obey the usual well-respected rule that the causes precede the effects in time. Some pairs of processes cannot be connected by cause-and-effect relations, and they are said to be spatially separated. This is in perfect agreement with the viewpoint of the Einstein theory of special relativity and with the Minkowski geometry of spacetime.
>any measurement you take of an event is only an approximation limited by your own senses and measuring devices
Measurable time exhibits merely the character of passage in nature, but the quality of passage itself which is in no way measurable except so far as it obtains in nature. That is to say, 'passage' is not measurable except as it occurs in nature in connexion with extension.
>but on the most basic levels this separation simply doesn't exist
Two corresponding durations which are respectively related by simultaneity to two discerned components of sense-awareness are necessarily distinct. This is an exhibition of the temporal passage of nature; namely, one duration has passed into the other.