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Subject: Does 'TIME' exist or is it an illusion?

Date: Thu Feb 15 19:30:40 2001
Posted by Mike
Grade level: nonaligned School: personal
City: Manchester State/Province: No state entered. Country: United Kingdom
Area of science: Physics
ID: 982283440.Ph
Message:

If it is day "now" and the earth turns through 360 deg. on it's axis then 
it is 
still "now" the only difference is that things have moved. There was 
no "yesterday" or more exactly, there was no "then". The only concept of 
time 
is an invented one by us (humans) to measure the changes in the physical 
position of objects (or energy), therefore there is no such thing 
as "time", or 
is there? Sorry but this is bothering me!
Given that somebody had been put in a place where there was no reference 
to time, no day or night, no clocks, no words that related to "then" 
or "now", etc. If he moved from one place to another, surely he would 
say "I move from there to here" and not "I was there and I am now here". 
This is a hard concept to put into a few short words but I know what I am 
trying to get at. I need to discuss it. Can anybody help?


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