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Time does not exist. Clocks exist.

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Duke 8 June 18
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Time is a property of energy/mass. Where there is a true void, there is no time and therefore no property. Work that one out!

Petter Level 9 June 18, 2018
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I would agree. There is an illusion we call "time" it actually varies by the observers velocity and appears to really be the sequencing of events in a causal direction.

The moment you use words like "sequencing" you are using the concept of time to qualify time scientifically. It would be like using the concept of God to qualify God scientifically.

@Petter So would you prefer I say ordering? I don't think I can escape that. Try it yourself. You can't really say it any other way. Time is weird.

@marmot84 Even ordering needs to be qualified. By magnitude? By age? - hang on! That uses Time!! '😉 '😉

@Petter 😉
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Tell this to the impatient guy waiting behind me in line!

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Quote from a Natalie Merchant song: ‘the clock is another demon that destroys our time in Eden’. I kind of agree(though I don’t believe in demons!)

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As 'time' is inconsistent, I understand that time slows down the closer one gets to the speed of light, does it have any relevance at a universal level? We can use consensual markers such as clocks, calendars etc. to organise our lives, but our hunter gatherer forebears responded to cycles rather than adapted frames. In this context I have to agree with the poster. Time is consensual and only relevant at a local rather than universal level therefore does not exist as a universal constant, but a localised marker.

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Yeah that's pretty much it!

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"Time" is man made,it is "Different" in certain parts of the World.

Coldo Level 8 June 18, 2018
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Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana 🍌

Time flies.
You can't, they're too erratic. They sit on trees and bark, and many of them weigh a ton.

Such pun, much respect.
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Level 4

Tell that to an octogenerian.

Whats an octovegeterian

@DZhukovin someone who only eats eight legged plants.
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Everything exists.. well except

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Level 5

Time is the fourth dimension!

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Level 7

Tell that to entropy.

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Time exists, but the ways that we describe it, measure it, and adapt to it vary from culture to culture, and across different periods of history.

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Hmmm and just what is the clock doing or measuring?

lerlo Level 8 June 18, 2018
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an illusion !

@DeeWoman ahhh you don't even think the clock exists... 🙂
Kinda like the people that say their glass is half full, and others half empty. I don't even think the glass exists 🙂

@lerlo the spoon doesn't bend Neo, you do.
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Chicago

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Chicago

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It is about time someone pointed this out!

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