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- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -6/+309I need a moment to contemplate what i just read.
- zCharden, on 10/10/2007, -16/+258Time never did exist in a certain sense. Time was created to keep society organized.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -6/+185i'll give you a minute. oh wait..
- Fizban119, on 11/07/2007, -7/+153Sweet!
Guess I don't have to worry about getting this project done by tomorrow after all. - Afrotronics, on 10/10/2007, -6/+142I guess you could look at it like this...
From a Newtonian perspective of things, the universe can only be at one place at one time.(Let's keep quantum theory out of this because it is hard to think about it. So let's assume "time" modifies "place").
This is called the present.
Before the present we have the past.
After the present we have the future (these are all labels mind you).
The problem is, as soon as something happens, it is already in the past.
That being said, the future becomes the past, skipping the present.
Therefore the present does not exist.
Therefore the universe does not exist.
Therefore time never started...in fact it never existed.
Brain segmentation fault at 0xFFFFFFFFFF. - chaosmachine, on 10/10/2007, -5/+131Submitted: 5 hours 48 min ago, made popular 14 minutes ago
orly? - grahamcase, on 10/10/2007, -3/+128Douglas Adams said it best:
"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so" - jmpeagle, on 10/10/2007, -10/+118time can only exist if something changes in the universe. Without any change, how would you know if an interval of time occurred? Time is dependent on motion. Without motion, time could not exist.
- RogerStrong, on 11/07/2007, -2/+96This could really suck for people who are paid by the hour.
- speedk0re, on 10/10/2007, -3/+81"Time is an abstract concept created by carbon based life forms to monitor their on going decay"
- Thunderclease - LegOfLamb, on 11/07/2007, -1/+71"The trouble with time started a century ago"
I find this sentence hilariously ironic. - nakile, on 10/10/2007, -8/+73Huh. I just thought of something.
Time is like a God.
We plan our life around it, have a shrine dedicated to it in most every room of our house, always have it on our mind, and we created it. - AegisC, on 10/10/2007, -9/+56It took me a long time to read that article
- Jenovaside, on 10/10/2007, -2/+47you have till 12:01 on the vcr-clock
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+38Damnit you brained my damage with that theory.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+38which this morning I hit every 9 minutes for 3 hours.
- D4r7h3v1l, on 11/07/2007, -1/+35Time, Mr. Freeman?
- dvsbastard, on 11/07/2007, -1/+30Damn straight... The next time I miss a deadline, I have an excuse ready to go! Thanks Digg!
- S3RG3, on 10/10/2007, -5/+34"100 quintillionths of a second" thats how long it takes me to reach orgasm in most sexual encounters =(
- Me1000, on 10/10/2007, -3/+32What is a VCR?
- kelly, on 10/10/2007, -2/+31Don't tell this to Jim Croce... the guy who wrote the song, "time in a bottle."
"If [he] could save time in a bottle... The first thing that [he'd] like to do
is to... um...
watch how it flows equably, without regard to anything external." - unloud, on 10/10/2007, -2/+31My bank account confirms this.
- AncientWeird, on 10/10/2007, -0/+28I for one hope that it does exist, so I can travel through it.
(in a TARDIS or otherwise why bother) - djpants428, on 10/10/2007, -1/+28so wait, if time = money, then money doesn't exist either
- Urusai, on 10/10/2007, -2/+27Indeed, there are only events. Einstein showed that the ordering of events is not even fundamentally fixed. In practice, however, Newtonian physics works just fine for daily life, and you will still be punching the snooze button on your alarm clock.
- aelias, on 10/10/2007, -1/+25And, like god, it doesn't exist. I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.
- sgtbutterscotch, on 10/10/2007, -2/+26You could say the same for any other "man made measurement." I think you will find that all measurements are "man made."
- Jugalator, on 10/10/2007, -0/+23No, time do exist and is a vital part of spacetime, as Einstein showed. The fascinating part of time is that it bends and warps like the other dimensions. However, time *units* (like seconds) are a human definition. But don't confuse the two. One is an abstract concept, the other not.
- Scynet, on 10/10/2007, -3/+26I agree entirely. Time is just a tool, a way to measure the *progress* of life. It doesn't really exist in nature, since nature doesn't need time. Nature onliy needs reactions, causes and effects, which is what life is all about.
Definition of second: 'One second is the time that elapses during 9,192,631,770 (9.192631770 x 109) cycles of the radiation produced by the transition between two levels of the cesium 133 atom.' - rabidg00se, on 10/10/2007, -2/+25No it didn't. You haven't read it yet.
- dvsbastard, on 10/10/2007, -2/+25"If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it... etc etc etc"
- MrSketch, on 10/10/2007, -1/+22I thought time was created to keep everything from happening at once.
- sgtbutterscotch, on 10/10/2007, -7/+27time is not dependent on motion, motion is dependent on time. Without time, nothing could change.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -6/+25I argued this VERY point on Digg a few weeks back, only to have various pseuds and half-awakes tell me I was a loon.
Pity I blocked them all... - Phyltre, on 10/10/2007, -1/+20Ha! This article disproves its own existence!
- sanman, on 10/10/2007, -1/+19I've often felt that time is merely an illusion created by the brain. After all, the brain works on electrochemical reactions which are based on increase of entropy. So since that means that entropy must always increase while we perceive "time" passing, therefore "time" is just a continuum that links contiguous electrochemical states in order of increasing entropy. So then our human perception of the universe is biased because of the constraints imposed by the electrochemical nature of our brains.
- ubuntumatthew, on 10/10/2007, -2/+19Stink. Time doesn't exist and I get paid by the hour.
- mrsteveman1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17This is the past.
When is now? Soon........ - HunterTV, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17I've been saying this for years!
Errr.... - bobcrotch, on 10/10/2007, -8/+24Buried for confusingness.
- cyberoidx, on 10/10/2007, -3/+18Digg - Kid asks father what a VCR is - Mozilla Firefox
- Cl1mh4224rd, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15> "Nonono, time isn't some magical force that enables motion. Times is a word, a tool, created by humans to keep track of motion."
It's just terminology, yeesh. It's like saying "length", "width", and "depth" don't exist, just because they're words made up by human beings to keep track of distances. That argument is meaningless.
Events are separated by time, just like planets are separated by <insert favored unit of measure here>. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+20"The sun is the same in the relative way, but youre older"
- bacon_skoda, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15Deadline = NULL
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15Don't be absurd. You are making a claim that some causal agent started the universe than make a leap into believing that the causal agent is a)intelligent b)all powerful c)omniscient d)gives a damn about humanity e)can actually modify reality...notice the absurd leaps you've made. Atheist and scientist will stop with, "we don't know" while you make a claim with no evidence at all.
- Pritchard, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15Actually, the title and description can be considered partially inaccurate. There is no time in the sense that we use it daily. There never has been. It's always been quite obvious that keeping track of time in such a manner was a man-made thing. Time in a scientific sense is related to the occurrence of events rather than the measured distance between them. Kind of like meter vs. lightyear, savvy? If not, believe it or not, lightyear's a fixed distance. Meter will actually change if the speed of light is found to be different than what is currently known ^.^;; Time is like a lightyear in the clock sense, while time is like a meter in a scientific sense.
- mcmlxxii, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13It's one thing for philosophy to sit there postulating. Philosophers have always had plenty of ideas, not all of them noteworthy. It is the physicists who are doing the donkey work here. God I hate when people say "...blah blah blah people" like they're the enlightened and the rest of us are half-wits.
- MatthewBlack, on 10/10/2007, -3/+15That is a big problem with Digg: I don't understand it, so I'll bury it. Like some people don't understand science, so they insist on clinging on to religion. It always pays to remember, 'it might be right, even if I don't understand it'.
Not that I understood Error601 either, but maybe we should just ask for clarification? - mrsteveman1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12When the ***** did atheists come into this discussion?
Just now?
But your right, since science can't explain everything immediately, lets turn to some good old fashioned self-reinforcing delusions. - fino35, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12does that mean I can leave work early?
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