Entropy is so awesome. Such an underrated scientific principle.
I think the question that the OP is positing refers to the arbitrariness of time, or rather our structuralization of time, which is what you were getting at. As far as your question is concerned... my friend once asked me if I believe love exists. I said it must, if only for the fact that someone felt it strongly enough to name it that.
Eschewing any talk of quantum mechanics and collapsing wave-functions (I'm assuming you're not trying to go there), no, I don't think you can measure something that doesn't exist. It's a bit of an odd question though, because I'm no longer sure what you mean by "exist". It's like asking if we can create a word that doesn't have a definition... or what the sound of one hand clapping is.
I'm with you on entropy, by the way. When I studied physics most of the things I learned seemed like things I already knew, but entropy is something I hadn't really considered much.
I take your point about love, too. Although I'd amend it and say that it has a name because it's important enough for people to 'want' it to exist, not necessarily because it does. Same goes for God, ghosts, energy from crystals
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Entropy is so awesome. Such an underrated scientific principle.
I think the question that the OP is positing refers to the arbitrariness of time, or rather our structuralization of time, which is what you were getting at. As far as your question is concerned... my friend once asked me if I believe love exists. I said it must, if only for the fact that someone felt it strongly enough to name it that.
Eschewing any talk of quantum mechanics and collapsing wave-functions (I'm assuming you're not trying to go there), no, I don't think you can measure something that doesn't exist. It's a bit of an odd question though, because I'm no longer sure what you mean by "exist". It's like asking if we can create a word that doesn't have a definition... or what the sound of one hand clapping is.
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I'm with you on entropy, by the way. When I studied physics most of the things I learned seemed like things I already knew, but entropy is something I hadn't really considered much.
I take your point about love, too. Although I'd amend it and say that it has a name because it's important enough for people to 'want' it to exist, not necessarily because it does. Same goes for God, ghosts, energy from crystals
I never know if the things I write make any sense to other people.