(August 31, 2015 at 8:13 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: A human construct?? Mmm, I don't think so. Perhaps as far as how we keep track of it, yes. But time is definitely something that exists. Regardless of whether we have clocks or calenders or count days, time still goes by. Everything around us gets older the longer it's been in existence, because time goes on.
We just can't fathom being "outside" of time, if you will.
To a certain extent, I can fathom being outside time. QM survives quite well without time or causality. But all this would be a topic for a different thread.
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-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy