Skip to content

What is Time?

Time is both the dimension of change and the 'flow' of change – one word, two subtly different meanings

Primary Menu

  • Introduction – what is Time?
    • Science has failed to explain time.
    • Philosophy, lost in time…back to Aristotle?
    • Time for change
  • What the dictionaries say about Time…
    • …and what we can deduce from the dictionaries.
  • What is change (and what do Clocks actually measure)?
  • What is a dimension?
  • 1. Time: the dimension
    • Space, Space-Time, and Time dilation
    • Change the splintered Arrow of Time.
    • Does time measure or is it the thing being measured?
  • 2. Time: the ‘flow’
    • Duration and Persistence
  • So what does this mean for Time?
  • Time, change and relativity
    • Quantum theory and Change
    • Thermodynamics, Entropy and the Arrow of Change
    • Quantum Field Theory and the Arrow of Change
  • Conclusion
  • What does ChatGPT make of this?
  • What Grok says
    • Understanding Relativity: The Spacetime Interval Explained
  • Gemini’s view
    • The Black Hole information paradox
    • Time dilation
  • Question I get asked about Time and related stuff.
  • Appendix 1: What the dictionaries say about time
  • Bibliography
  • Contact
  • Author: Simon Morley

Tag Ageing

If time didn’t exist would we age?

December 26, 2021January 17, 2022timedefiner Leave a comment

But Time doesn’t exist…only in our minds. Its an abstract concept.

What exists is change.Time is merely the way we calibrate and reference change.

So, you question should be “if change didn’t exist would we age?”. Answer, no. If your body was frozen you wouldn’t change, you wouldn’t age.

But you’d be dead. To live is to change. To change is to age.

Sorry…

https://qr.ae/pGzSvo

What is Time? The ‘ultimate paradox’ resolved

What is Time? The ‘ultimate paradox’ resolved
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • What is Time?
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • What is Time?
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar