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Does time exist? - Andrew Zimmerman Jones

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The earliest time measurements were observations of cycles of the natural world, using patterns of changes from day to night and season to season to build calendars. More precise time-keeping eventually came along to put time in more convenient boxes. But what exactly are we measuring? Andrew Zimmerman Jones contemplates whether time is something that physically exists or is just in our heads.

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Most questions in physics can be answered with our current understanding of time, through classical physics and relativity. If we can use time to get answers to physics problems and make predictions, why should we devote scientific resources to developing a deeper understanding of the fundamental nature of time or other fundamental questions about the universe?

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Avatar for Max Bonet Martínez
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Because there are lots of things, we don't comprend about the Univers and what are we sorrounded by. Its undamental that we comprend if time really exists or is an invention from the humans.


Avatar for Camil Tarés Hezami
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we think that you are partly right, but even if there are obvious facts in science, such as the existence of different species of living things, resources should be devoted to the research of these species, as new things can always be discovered that we would never have expected them to exist.


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We should devote scientific resources to developing a deeper understanding of the fundamental nature of time or other fundamental questions about the universe because we have an understanding of time now to physics problems.


Avatar for Eduardo Pereira
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Sometime ago, maybe someone asked himself the same question when Einstein announced the relativity theory. The normal people always feel that the current knowledge is enough. However, the discovery of new realities takes us to a new level of consciousness.


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Personnaly I think that scientific resources should be used to understand better the time. Because the time is something that still abstract ,and very simple and difficult at the same time. Time influence all of our universe so we should give more importance to it to increase our knowledge about space and the universe. Once we'll have mastered the time it could be better for everyone and we could be more powerful than death maybe.


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Because they are there


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Sometimes we don't have to know how much time we use but have to know what we have done when used that time. Time is very important but it doesn't mean saving time so much that you don't do anything. Life is to be devoted so time plays an important role of the meaning of life. On the whole, we have to use time appropriately!




Avatar for Mahendra Kumar
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I think we time is totally independent for every body and Our "Mind" is the key to manipulate time. We can change the speed of "our time" by our mind. For example if your mind is involved in something our time passes very fast on the other hand if we are alone or bored our time passed very slow.
We can also create a black hole using our mind and can go though it not physically by mentally. For example
You can listen to any music by just going through a sequence of incidents and reaching at moment where you first listened it.

We can't create a block in real world because it need way too much energy but we can create in our mind. Mind's neural system in way more powerful then atomic reactions we just need to unlock it.

I am working more on it and provide more update about it.

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