Is time an illusion?

elijah44

Time is a measurement, it is not really fundamentally real. Even Einstein said “Time is abstracted from our experience with rhythmic phenomena.” In my understanding, time is a passing of duration or a certain period of, well, time (there’s not really another word to use), and humans have measured and created a system to measure time. Time is relative. But, I’m not the best source as I am no expert on time or quantum mechanics. It is difficult to comprehend “true” time.

John_C_87

@Thor

I do not know if this will help you but time in the physics sense is a stillness in the universe found by mathematics. Using algebra and trigonometry. Like Calculus and Physics how the math formulas to write times connection to space can vary by choice and understandings of mathematics. Einstein used tensors that had been written to write his own tensor, I am going to stop there as it is a very complex mathematic issue.

Factfinder

@Thor

No. not in any real since. You age, you die, that's it.

just_sayin

John_C_87 said:

@Thor

I do not know if this will help you but time in the physics sense is a stillness in the universe found by mathematics. Using algebra and trigonometry. Like Calculus and Physics how the math formulas to write times connection to space can vary by choice and understandings of mathematics. Einstein used tensors that had been written to write his own tensor, I am going to stop there as it is a very complex mathematic issue.

It seems like you are trying to reduce time to mathematics, which is abstract and not directly connected to nature, whereas spacetime, while is the 3 dimensions of space and the one dimension of time. Now math may be used upon spacetime, but time is woven into space, not math.  Time, like space, and matter, exists.  Mathematics, while working in this universe, is abstract and independent of it.   

John_C_87

@just_sayin

First: Spacetime, is listed outside space by Einsteins tensor which is spacetime.
Second: Time is mathematically found locating of stillness in the universe much like a compass finds North and South on earth.
Third: Of course, time exist it is stillness in the universe the reason physics cannot find time is they do not have a tool to locate stillness in the universe.  
Fourth: There are Algebra equations that can be written and partnered with trigonometry formulas to place time inside the (X, Y, Z) dimensions of tensor space including Spacetime.

The locating time is a mathematic issue in the phisycs sense.
I will gladly go over all I found but I must go now as I feel very i'll and must rest.