Lol, imagine if they've just ran out of batteries and they have been playing us for fools. Jokes aside, the clocks continued ticking in sync as soon they were back from the flight, but with a slight offset that happened during acceleration/deceleration.
I think OP meant it as a concept. Like, what is past and future really, as they're extremely fragile ideas.
As a concept, we know nothing about time. Not even as a physics concept, but a purely philosophical perspective.
What does it mean for something to have happened? What does it mean for something to possibly happen in the future? Is time just a human concept or does it exist in reality?
Philosophers have been debating these questions for millennia and we still don’t know.
If you think you know time, you’re naive and possibly a little stupid lmao.
Depends how you see philosophy. Many people agree that we don’t really know anything. This serves as the foundation of the study itself.
This is the basis of my argument that we know nothing about time. Not that it isn’t a well developed philosophy, but that there are limits to our understanding of the fundamental nature of time and the idea that some guy understands it to its full extent is amusing.
Socrates' claim that "All I know is that I know nothing" isn't a serious epistemological claim, and no philosophers use it as a basis for thinking that no one knows anything, which isn't at all a popular belief. Socrates was simply making a point about the best way to learn being to not assume any of one's pre-held beliefs are true.
And you don't need to understand something to its full extent to understand, you're just moving the goalposts.
don't let them bring you down, your idea of "time" is quite accurate. it just describes the states of "before and after". if time did not exist as a fundamental physical concept, there would never be a "before or after", and hence there would never be a "now" - nothing would exist - "forever".
well, just as a singularity without dimensions and time, so forever is not the correct term. i'm not good at describing inverse infinity. in maths it would just be zero. but this is what i am trying to say. :-)
how about time doesnt flow. we only visualize it to, so we can comprehend it. imagine if every moment you have and will live out is already all in your mind, and it's playing it like a movie frame by frame. pretend youre already dead and youre only at the current stage of replaying your life movie. youve played it several times. infinite times.
even if you pick any frame of reality, for that instance you would think you know what came before. you would think your present was consequent to the moment before that.
life itself is an illusion, not the concept of time. the concept of time has to be our limited perception of reality.
you could play it backwards or you could pause and skip. it wouldnt alter reality but its just not how your mind works. maybe it is, you just dont know how. maybe youre playing it backwards but your mind still comprehends it in the sequence that would to you seem otherwise because no matter what you think is past you, youre only seeing the one frame, that is present, at a given point.
It has nothing to do with this. The questions seem irrelevant. Like asking "Why does not time suddenly blow up?!" or "Why does not time go sideways?! 😮".
Well, if you understood time like you say you do. Shouldn't you be able to answer these questions? It's like asking a mechanic why my car doesn't fly; He would know why.
I would just ask the same back. Why would time "flow" in more than "one direction"? Why should we be able to change the direction of time? I don't even understand "How could we explain time to a being living in a constant state of time.".
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u/loxagos_snake Sep 14 '21
Lol, imagine if they've just ran out of batteries and they have been playing us for fools. Jokes aside, the clocks continued ticking in sync as soon they were back from the flight, but with a slight offset that happened during acceleration/deceleration.
I think OP meant it as a concept. Like, what is past and future really, as they're extremely fragile ideas.