Why time is not real – part 2Time is not energy, nor a derivative of energy. Yes I recall Lee Smolen insisting that time has a discrete state – like particles. But he was trying desperately to save his beloved M-theory. He is wrong.
Time is a convention – an agreement – required in order for us to operate in four dimensional reality.
Simply stated, we need the rule called ‘time’ in order to perceive depth, distance, height or change. This agreement is not constant, it changes depending on the person. It also changes by cultural agreement. In fact linear time as we know it today is a fairly recent invention – one which took the kind of permanence we assume it has, only after the invention of the clock.
Now to space – space is a function of time. We agree? So if time does not exist, space does not exist either. It must be a convention too.
That is right. There is no space, no earth, no solar system, no universe, no past and no future.
Reality stripped of time and space is…you got it, a singularity. Where nothing moves, nothing changes, a unity where everything simply is.
Tycho was right. We live in a black hole.
P.S.
Please note my deliberate change of heading. Time may not exist but, if we agree to create it - that is good enough for me. Gravity may not exist either but try jumping from a 10 story building and...you get my drift, I am sure.
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." (Niels Bohr)