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Isn't time just a history of movement? For example, if you stopped the movement of everything in the universe (all the way down to subatomic particles) for a "m
by greenstork 7y ago
Isn't time just a history of movement? For example, if you stopped the movement of everything in the universe (all the way down to subatomic particles) for a "moment" and then turned movement back on again, how long would that moment have lasted for? 1 second or 100 years? There's no way to define how long that moment lasted, since nothing was moving during that moment. So it seems to me that time cannot exist without movement which makes me think that time is a byproduct of motion (a history of motion).
- Yajirobe 7y ago> how long would that moment have lasted for? 0 seconds.
- sgillen 7y agoMaybe, it’s an open question whether or not what you are calling time is a useful way to look at the problem the article is talking about. The article wants to know if time is a universal constant (as in quantum mechanics) or if it’s malleable and relative (as in general relativity). It’s not clear to me if viewing time as a history is useful here.