• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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        4 months ago

        Can time really exist if there was no frame of reference to measure it? We can only detect it by motion or entropy. It’s the only way of “time”. So if there was some point where there was nothing that moved, then time wouldn’t exist.

        For that matter, there’s no way of measuring if time is even consistent. If it were constantly speeding way up, or slowing way down, we’d have no way of knowing.

        Time is just a figment of our imagination so we can keep track of movement. Just like magenta isn’t a real color.

    • BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 months ago

      Well, yes and no. Time is a concept derived from a change in state. There is no “real” time. If the universe before the Big Bang existed in a static state, then the concept of time itself becomes meaningless. So in that case, it would be “before time” in a sense

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        4 months ago

        The state cannot have been absolutely static - if it was, the big bang would not have occurred, and the same stasis would be existing now, unchanged.

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      4 months ago

      Time is an illusion

      It’s just a human made concept to create a reference to measure shit

      • efstajas@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Absolutely not, time doesn’t give a shit about humans, and would happily pass without any conscious observer at all anywhere in the universe.