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Originally posted by: Lord Henry Wotton
Relativity. Your theory on time being a function of the brain is quite false. Your mind percieves, but does not regulate or create time. Your clock example is quite simply a psychosis, a state of mind and not in any way a regulation of time.
Your final paragraph is both contradictory and well...you make illogical conclusions. You seem to skip steps of logical thought. I think that you're a very intelligent person, but you're getting ahead of yourself. Your theory is based upon your small knowledge of the concepts invloved. Just wait a few years before you start creating your theories. You are very smart.
You have Descartes style of thought. Your only problem is that you skipped a few steps. Descartes attempted proofs on the existance of God but first had to have proof for the existance of himself. he invented his famous Cogito ergo sum (I thik therefore I am). Although I very much believe that your theory is ridiculously false, you have a very good mind. Just show every logical step.
Your image and mirage analogy is not accurate.
Inferred conclusion? I can't completely follow your theory (sorry, it doesn't make sense). I think that you may be saying that from our perception it is true, but in reality it is false. Are you saying that it is all a matter of perspective? This is the very beginning concept of relativity. It does not however prove that time does not exist, rather that it is like space entirely ambiguous, based upon perspective.
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Time does exist for all applications except for time travel. The concept of "time" is made to show when something was done or when something will happen; It is a tool for organization, not a dimension.
But for the sake of argument I'll say time is a dimension.
I looked up the word "time" in an online dictionary and the two meanings that caught my eye are:
1. nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future.
2. A number, as of years, days, or minutes, representing such an interval:
Some parts to take note of:
1 Time is non-spatial.
2 It is "apparently" irreversible.
3 A number representing such an interval (of time)
To take a closer look at these:
2. Time is nonspatial.
"Space" is defined as :
The infinite extension of the three-dimensional region in which all matter exists.
If all matter exists in "space" and time is not in this "space", then how are we to reach time to travel through it? Us humans have the ability to move throughout the universe; Yet time is not in the universe. Blackholes may transport us to a different point in space, but you cannot walk through time, because it is not in the area called space that we live in. So even if time is a dimension, we are hopless to reach it. So how does time affect us if it is not where we are? Consider the human and the ant. The ant lives in two dimensions: the ground. They cannot reach up to us, to the third dimension. yet we can still affect them greatly. When the child shines the magnifying glass upon them to bring death, the ants don't know what is happening; They do not even understand it is the child doing it to them. Perhaps time is like this then, able to affect us in ways beyond our understanding.
2. It is "apparently" irreversible.
Continuing with the thinking above, we cannot get to time. If we cannot reach time, then we cannot control it. The ant cannot affect the heights above him except by perhaps eating a plant which could indirectly change the sky above him. Perhaps we too can affect time indirectly. I believe that the theory of Relativity falls into this category. We are not changing the past because we are just slowing down the future. You cannot change the future beca
