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Some say time does not exist really. Humans invented time for obvious reasons. physics and mathematics say yes, again for obvious reasons.
Who knows.
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Slacker007 wrote: Some say time does not exist really.
Which is nonsense; it is a phenomena we can measure, and whose effects are obvious.
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The magazine? Of course not. But why are you reading it?
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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He's hoping to be man of the year.
This space for rent
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If mankind wasn't here who would care?
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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Mike Hankey wrote: If mankind I wasn't here who would I care?
FTFY 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Prexactly
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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How is that pronounced?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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Time is the inevitable outcome of living in a universe that has a law of entropy.
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Consider:
Entropy gives a direction to time - but is it an inevitable outcome that time exists just because something would influence it? I'm no sure that entropy implies time. Perhaps the reverse?
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Time does not require entropy, but entropy does require time.
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In the future time is outmoded. Once things happen fast enough* time stops because all things are complete at once.
I think it occurs when your download speeds hit 1PBPS (Petabit). 
*Think about that too...
Two Ways To Stop Time
Make everything happen so fast it all happens at once: time stops.
Make everything happen so slowly that nothing happens: time stops.
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There mat be a fly in your reasoning, or perhaps a flaw in your ointment. As a photon travels at the speed of light, time does not exists for it*, but us folks still get old and die - bummer!
Actually, time WILL stop - when the universe is driven to maximum entropy by dark energy eventually even tearing apart quarks. With no more entropy possible, time will cease to exist.
*This actually means that there only needs to be one photon at a time in the universe, as it can be in all places simultaneously. I just don't think the universe has woken up and smelt the coffee yet. 
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Chris C-B wrote: This actually means that there only needs to be one photon at a time in the universe, as it can be in all places simultaneously
That's interesting. 
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The reason it is not so is the universe's energy budget - we would all be freezing our whatsits off with just one photon, as it is the main energy carrier in the universe, and the CMB would have hit zero K at about 370k years after the BB.
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The rate of completion of a task is determined by it's slowest contributor
I am not the one who knocks. I never knock.
In fact, I hate knocking.
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Yes. Time does not need to be observed to exist; it also seemed to exist before we observed it.
We know by the way we observe background-radiation that is a bit older than this planet, which is a bit older than the fossils it contains.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Consider if the universe were an absolute void. I would put forward that time doesn't exist because nothing happens and nothing can happen. This is the ultimate in a stateless condition.
Now, as soon as there is something, or better yet, somethings, the possibility of time becomes more and more a mandatory consequence.
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I am familiar with the big-bang theory. It also does not limit its existence to when there is an observer.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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In an absolute void, there's nothing to go 'bang' - even a singularity would mean we do not have an absolute void.
Or - are you hypothesizing nothing will hypothetically become something, eventually? Excuse the recursion as 'eventually' pre-supposes time, which is the item in question.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: In an absolute void, there's nothing to go 'bang' - even a singularity would mean we do not have an absolute void.
There is, half a cat's worth. First there was nothing, then there was half a cat, which caused the universe to expand.
W∴ Balboos wrote: Or - are you hypothesizing nothing will hypothetically become something, eventually? Excuse the recursion as 'eventually' pre-supposes time, which is the item in question.
That is currently used as the most probable thing to have happened.
The idea that time does not exist in a void might only mathematically be true; time in a void is meaningless mathematically, since there is no "from A to B", there cannot be time that passes when travelling between those points (mathematically), but it may still exist.
If you have any better explanation which does not involve any Gods, I'm all ears
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: There is, half a cat's worth. First there was nothing, then there was half a cat, which caused the universe to expand.
All of that does depend, does it not, in not knowing what's in the box?
Suppose there were no box and you looked at a location - the probability factor is not the same concept at all: it is or it isn't. The box, hiding the cat (or whether it's alive or not) is an important component.
An all-encompassing absolute void? That is stateless. The cat is not stateless.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: An all-encompassing absolute void? That is stateless.
How can a void be all-encompassing? 
There is not a void now, so it may be safe to say that there was not a "perfect void".
Bastard Programmer from Hell
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: How can a void be all-encompassing?
Because there is nothing (not even an observer) - period. Now where, no how, no one. ALL
Eddy Vluggen wrote: There is not a void now, so it may be safe to say that there was not a "perfect void".
You're getting lost in that you're mixing your reality with speculative theory. I do not refer to 'what was, is , or will be'. What you see/feel/hear now, along with your description - constitute a pre-disposed historical state - and can arguably be considered off-topic.
You cannot validly use time to determine if it would or wouldn't exist: as by doing so you've taken sides and (by definition) declared a winner.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Because there is nothing (not even an observer) - period. Now where, no how, no one. ALL
All is in that case exactly nothing, which encompasses.. nothing
W∴ Balboos wrote: What you see/feel/hear now, along with your description - constitute a pre-disposed historical state
No, just pointing out that there is "something" now, and that your described perfect void is just a speculative theory
W∴ Balboos wrote: You cannot validly use time to determine if it would or wouldn't exist: as by doing so you've taken sides and (by definition) declared a winner.
I wasn't; I was using math and space, and explaining how time arises from those concepts. Still doesn't mean that time would not exist without them.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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