Is it normal i don’t believe in time?

I’m not really a deep thinker, but I can’t see any way how time travel or the idea of “time” is real.

Besides the position of the planets, I don’t think there is any true measurement of time, and I don’t think there is any “start and stop” to days or eras. I don’t think that reality is keeping track of events or time or days or any of it

I don’t think, with any invention or the geniuses all combined, that there is ever a chance to “go back in time” and I certainly don’t believe in fast forwarding to the future. The future doesn’t exist and neither does the past, shit just be going on

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  • Mammal-lover

    Time is just a isit of measurement mankind made to add value to every day life and help coordinate well everyday life. Documenting it all that jazz. It's just a tool not an actual thing. They teach this in school you know

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    • KholatKhult

      Okay well I never finished school!!
      So let me wear my big boy brain today lmfaoooo I’m taking a 5 minute break from thinking about horses to act like a philosopher

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      • Mammal-lover

        Oh boy I know how hard it is to stop thinking about horses, my condolences

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  • hauntedbysandwiches

    Time is a man made invention.

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    • raisinbran

      Language is abstract.

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  • ArrestThisMan

    Ya know, I was going to say this makes no sense since the passage of time is obvious, but I get what you're saying. I think 'Time' as we know it might be a 4th dimension, especially if it really doesn't "exist". It's all going on but we can only comprehend the present

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    • SmokeEverything

      Tertium Organum was a fucked up book, but anyone who's into psychedelics should read it. He talks about time as an example of a dimension we can't percieve outside of changes in our environment. The argument he makes is that you can't imagine what a four dimensional object would look like since we only have 3 dimensional perspective. If you only had 2-dimensional perception, as in you can see objects horizontally but not vertically, a tree would look like a horizontal line in front of you that was as long as the width of the tree. And if you grabbed a baloon and started floating upwards, as the tree branches out, you would see the line break up into smaller horizontal lines moving further apart, since you can only "see" a slice of what's directly in front of you. This person would think they were watching an object break apart and dissolve, and there would be no way to explain to them that the object not only still exists but the individual pieces are actually connected through a third dimension of "Up and down" that you were travelling through, because to them up and down doesn't exist. You would only see things as either obstacles or empty space without an ability to actually see the characteristics of what you were looking at.

      If you had the ability to see through time, even a limited ability like you can look into a room and see a 6 minute span of time all at once, 3 minutes into the past and 3 minutes into the future, the world wouldn't be three dimensional anymore.

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  • JellyBeanBandit

    Well days, hours, minutes and seconds are just arbitrary man-made amounts of time that we invented to keep track of everything. Even a day, which is based on a natural event, would have no meaning to an alien, since there wouldn't be anything significant about Earth to them.

    Also like someone else already mentioned, time travel into the future is actually possible. Time is relative, it doesn't pass by at exactly the same speed for everyone. The faster you move, the slower time moves for you than for everyone else (who are at rest). You wouldn't notice any difference though, time would appear normal to you but everyone else would appear to have sped up. But to everyone else, time would appear to be normal to them and you would appear to have slowed down. This is completely unnoticeable at our everday speeds, even speeds achieved by the fastest supersonic jets. But if you move near the speed of light then time will slow down so much for you that thousands of years would pass by for everyone else, while it might only be a few minutes for you. So you would then travel into the future.

    As bizarre as that seems it has actually been tested. They created two atomic clocks and synchronised their times. Then they put one on a airplane and sent it flying around the world at high speeds. When they compared the clock after that they had fallen out of sync (albeit by only a few nanoseconds).

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  • BlackButler

    Astrophysics have proven that the past is real and the present moment is real. There is no future.

    Time is also said to be an illusion, based on the linear perception of the dualistic mind.

    In non duality, consciousness, eternity, God, ultimate reality has no time.

    Also what is belief? If you want to know your beliefs look at your actions, not your thoughts. I bet you have to be somewhere some time 🤪

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  • Vanta_White

    "For us believing physicists, the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."

    Albert Einstein said that, but Einstein has also been wrong before. Both the Standard Model of particle physics and Einstein's own general theory of relativity are time-symmetric, meaning the physics thereof is the same whether the variable called “time” increases or decreases.

    This view of the universe is called the "block universe" and it doesn't actually do away with time as a dimension so much as it does the passage of time. We don't all agree with this view that the universe is actually a static block of spacetime though. What we do all agree on is that whether the passage through time is an illusion or something real, and whether time is an emergent phenomenon or a fundamental one, we either are or perceive ourselves to be naturally drifting in one direction. This is peculiar.

    Time-symmetric equations do not offer an explanation for one direction being favored over another. A common attempt at an explanation for the so-called "arrow of time" is the assertion that entropy, as per the second law of thermodynamics, always increases (order gives way to disorder in a sense), but the issue with this is that the equations offer no reason entropy couldn't have increased in the other direction instead. This attempt to circumvent the problem led to the exact same problem: Time-symmetric equations sans any concept of the present.

    One bizarre possibility is that the universe also extends backward in time from the point of the Big Bang in the form of a mirror region of spacetime, also potentially infinite. This eliminates the need to explain the arrow of time and entropy by introducing an additional, equal, and opposite one that preserves the symmetry that mathematics seems to predict.

    An appealing aspect of this idea is that it also solves another physics problem: The apparent asymmetry between matter and antimatter in the observable universe. The mathematics seems to predict that they should have been created in equal portions at the beginning of the universe. That said, if they had been, it would seem that it all should have "annihilated" itself as matter and antimatter do, yielding a universe of pure energy with no matter and antimatter. Instead what we see is a universe that is almost completely dominated by (dark matter, energy, and dark energy aside) matter with virtually no antimatter.

    We typically describe antimatter as charge-reversed matter. While regular atoms contain positively charged protons and neutral neutrons essentially orbited by negatively charged electrons, anti-atoms contain positrons in the position of orbit, which are essentially positively charged electrons (not to be confused with protons which are matter and found in the nuclei of normal atoms). That said, there's a more profound way to think of antimatter; for all mathematical intents and purposes, it's indistinguishable from ordinary matter simply traveling backward in time. This augments the credibility of the idea that there's a mirror region of spacetime in which time and entropy flowed in the other temporal direction from the Big Bang because it also explains where all the antimatter went.

    As for time travel, you have it backward. It's forward travel that's easy. In fact, it can already be done on a small scale. It's backward travel that the majority of us think will never be possible. The universe seems almost as if it has inherent prevention mechanisms regarding travel to the past, almost as if to prevent potential paradoxes associated with such travel. That said, even now, it seems it may at least eventually be possible to create a time machine that only allows one to travel back to the point at which the machine is made, but as our understanding of the universe increases, who knows? I don't like to call anything an outright impossibility before we have a "theory of everything" (essentially the unification of gravity and quantum mechanics).

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  • BleedingPain

    Thyme is a relative spice that tastes like shite and should be thrown out

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  • ellnell

    Its kind of true. We invented time to have a way to keep track of things and live easier.

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  • Tommythecaty

    Uh time as you are thinking of exists because we invented measurement.

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  • controversy

    yes, its just an idea, we cant travel thru an idea.

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  • my_life_my_way

    Time is just a way of measuring when you need to show up for meetings

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    • SmokeEverything

      Idk I notice time passing and I don't ever go to meetings.

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  • DaneMcFain

    In this dimension, time is an illusion and space is real. In afterlife dimensions time is real and space is an illusion

    Half truths

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    • Vanta_White

      Time and space /are/ dimensions.

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      • DaneMcFain

        Take dmt young grasshopper

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  • COVID-19

    Time does exist. It's not man-made.

    You sleep at predetermined intervals, as do plants. Cells have built in clocks that determine biological cycles.

    The sun rises and sets at set intervals. The fact that there is a present, past and future is time as well. If there were no time you'd see multiple realities simultaneously.

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    • dirtybirdy

      But we made up the increments

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  • Time traveling forward has already been theorized, proven, and practiced.

    Two atomic clocks, one stationary on the ground and one on a jet. When the jet lands, that atomic clock showed less time had passed than the one on the ground. Sorta like the old planet of the apes, if you can keep someone in a rocket long enough at high enough speeds, they could land back on earth years in the future

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    • SmokeEverything

      More theoretical pseudoscientific nonsense. Nobody travels through time, but like I always say the same people who believe NASA would believe pictures a guy at a renaissance fair or civil war re-enactment proved time travel.

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    • Nikclaire

      This.

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