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View submission: Does time really exist?
Does it exist? Yes, factually so. If you were to drop a stone it will accelerate at a certain rate, and acceleration doesn’t really exist without the existence of time. It’s more or less baked in as a facet of physical existence.
Does it exist strictly in the way you and I experience it? Not necessarily. I kind of like the idea of time existing as its own dimension just like any other, meaning there’s no real reason it needs to trickle forward at a constant rate, flow in the same direction, or even be real only at the specific point you’re experiencing. Really, to me, it makes more sense as a dimension if none of those rules apply. If physical objects can move about in three spatial dimensions in whatever way they might, and the entirety of the space is “real space” even if it’s not occupied by a given object at any specific point, then it might make more sense to assume that our world might “exist” in multiple states of time continuously, and it’s just a matter of coincidence that our perception moves forward in time the way it does at the rate it does. Similar to how a rock fired from a cannon into space might only ever head in one direction at a constant speed ever, it doesn’t mean that that direction is the only one that exists, just that, for that rock, it’s the only one that’s relevant.
Comment by pro_nait at 24/02/2025 at 08:45 UTC
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Damn, that's really, really interesting! Especially the idea that since we only experience time in one way, we can imagine all sorts of other possibilities.