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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.
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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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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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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".
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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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The absence of matter does not mean nothing happens. Because of the uncertainty principle you have processes happening even in an empty space.
Casimir effect - Wikipedia
and Hawking radiation per example.
For time to vanish, you need to have a hypothetical state with zero degrees of freedom.
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Absolute Void. There is no frame of reference for 'anything' because there is nothing.
Do you have any degrees of freedom for that?
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Yes, but an absolute void would only last for less than one unit of Plank time owing to vacuum energy. The quantum foam would start almost instantaneously. Most of the mass/energy of a neutron is due to the spontaneous generation of particles within its empty spaces.
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So I looked it up:
Quote: Vacuum energy is an underlying background energy that exists in space throughout the entire Universe. One contribution to the vacuum energy may be from virtual particles which are thought to be particle pairs that blink into existence and then annihilate in a timespan too short to observe.Sep 18, 2016
Note the portion I underlined. If one had a total void, that includes everything. Not just 'matter' - especially since matter and energy are interchangeable.
You bring forward what can be an interesting side-bar:Chris C-B wrote: Most of the mass/energy of a neutron is due to the spontaneous generation of particles within its empty spaces.
This begs a question: you used the term 'most' - what about the rest of it?
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No offense but you have no idea what you are talking about. Watch this:
NOTHING: The Science of Emptiness - YouTube
Might be a starter for you to get some information on the subject.
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A void. An absolute total "all-encompassing" absence. Not a quantum vacuum.
No matter of any kind. No energy. No waves. No concept of volume. No between. No direction.
It is not actually visualizeable as that induces boundary conditions - that your mind is trying to be an observer, for example, which defines an 'else'. You need to delve further into the abstraction.
This was not actually part of their discussion. Basically, the barrier in the "there was no before the big bang" statement - the content of "the before".
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Yes, as I already posted, that is the concept of zero dimensions or zero degrees of freedom. Exists as a mathematical concept only.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: If one had a total void, that includes everything.
I don't think such a beast can exist, unless it is in a universe that has no laws of quantum theory, in which case the universe can't exist, so the void can't exist either. It all gets a bit existential from there on, with such things as "What was there before the big bang?" or "Why is there something rather than nothing?".
Makes my head hurt. 
W∴ Balboos wrote: This begs a question: you used the term 'most' - what about the rest of it?
The three quarks for Muster Mark contribution - one Up and two Down.
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Stable Genius wrote: Because of the uncertainty principle you have processes happening even in an empty space.
It is not just that something came from nothing; it was a whole lot that came from there. Something that hasn't happened since.
Stable Genius wrote: For time to vanish, you need to have a hypothetical state with zero degrees of freedom.
A desk in a cubicle?
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If it is an absolute void, there is nobody to observe what is (not)happening. If there is an observer, it is not an absolute void. Paradoxical isn't it?
Edit: You seem to agree with this in later messages. 
I am not the one who knocks. I never knock.
In fact, I hate knocking.
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I sort of accept that it's not possible to fully comprehend an absolute void. It wouldn't even have a size. Does it, as a void, even constitute an existence?
It's paradoxical - but perhaps because our only way to attempt to envision or describe it give it attributes (observations, as you noted) which nullify the "property" of it being a void.
You do get the picture - and, going back to the OP, why I think there may not be time if there was only an absolute void. The difficulty for any type of visualization and gedanken experiment make me limit myself to "may not".
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The sun and the earth were made 5000 years ago. This is when time started. Bible says so.
Also dinosaurs were timeless spirits from the aether. Try not to stomp on the butterfly!
This is not a server crash: If nobody tried to login to the website, did the server crash?
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