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Time has never been observed. There is no such thing as a unit of time that is not actually a measurement of something else, such as radioactive decay, gear rotation, or planet rotation. There is no way of objectively determining time passing at a constant rate, and general relativity suggests it doesn't anyway.

>> No.1186586

stating something we already know and expecting a response

>> No.1186584

Did you just learn that in your high school physics class?

>> No.1186592

>lrn2planckunit
There are lots of ways to express time, with speed/distance. For example, c/width of a neutron.

>> No.1186594

yes. Soon you will move onto other basic philosophical concepts such as the "brain in a jar" theory.

>> No.1186602

Time is not physical, there is no materialistic evidence granted for time. It's not something you hold in your hand, therefore it is observed indirectly through forms of measurement or unit.

>> No.1186603

You are now realizing that all scientific knowledge is a human construction and that exists no matter who is observing and/or classifying it.

>> No.1186605

>>1186594
or he'll learn that two objects never actually touch because atoms slightly repel each other

it's like, we know, we just don't care

>> No.1186609

If time didn't "exist" then everything is happening everywhere simultaneously. The end is the beginning.

>> No.1186618

>>1186609

There is cause and effect; time is a construct of the human mind stemming from the observation of cause and effect.

>> No.1186629

>>1186618
There isn't cause and effect at the quantum level, just probability.

>> No.1186630

>>1186603
the only guaranteed true axiom is that you exist in some form (you can only assume this about yourself)
>>1186609
einstein agreed with this, but quantum mechanics sort of shut that theory down. So yeah, there is time.

>> No.1186637

>>1186629
That is nice but no one was talking about things at the quantum level.

>> No.1186641

>>1186629

Human perception doesn't go down to quantum level, bro.

>> No.1186646

>>1186637
Considering that the quantum level is everything, everyone was talking about it.

>> No.1186647

>>1186637
umm, yes we were... please don't speak for all of us

>> No.1186651

>>1186594

>"brain in a jar" theory.

Brain in a vat silly.

>> No.1186661

>>1186646
>>1186647

Go back to school and learn what quantum mechanics is and when it is and isn't applicable.

>> No.1186663

>>1186651
they look so much cooler in jars.

>> No.1186666

>>1186651
we could be in the matrix, that whole movie was basically brain in a vat

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>>1186661
>derp quantum mechanics has nothing to do with time

>> No.1186674

>>1186661
That's like saying chemistry isn't applicable in biology, genetics, or evolution.

>> No.1186938

What about space-time?

The idea that time is a molding of a fabric through the mass of an object. In other words, time is in fact relative, it can change, it can follow specific rules. Best way to say it is that time is the effect an object has on the fabric of the universe.

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>>1186609
einstein!