By what mechanism does time move forward?

[michabo]

Time doesn't move, we move through time (just as we move through space). We can vary our rate of movement through each of the dimensions, or rather we can exchange movement in some dimensions for movement in another as the magnitude of the vector representing our movement will always be constant - c.

I think Green Dragon has the right of it when he says that we use entropy to measure time. It doesn't measure the passage of time, but it does measure the direction. As for why there is a direction, why entropy increases, why virtually all subatomic processes are identical when you reverse the clock (and charge polarity and a couple other key values) but things at a macro level aren't reversible... Good questions, and I haven't seen any good answers.

 

[freelight]

Just out of curiousity, does anyone have any ideas by what mechanism time moves forward? How does time move from 11:45 to 11:45 and 1 time unit later?

Time is not necessarily moving forward at all....but only 'appears' to do so within the specified definitive context of our standard time measurement...or whatever system of measurement is being used to record or define a certain frequency of movement. (time exists in any spatial dimension where there is movement...so that a clock ticking only ticks because its inner movement - any sense of it going 'forward' is a linear imposition coupled with our sense of things 'unfolding' implying direction.)


This poses many wonderful questions about how the 'sense' of time varies in different dimensions (such as time in heaven or how God experiences time). There is so much here to explore and such could enhance our deeper understanding of our relationship to God/the Universe, our existence and our spiritual evolution(again the implication of 'time'). Time in any format appears as 'relative'...and even though we may hold the Universe as being infinite/eternal.......still as long as there exists relativity...there will always be a sense of time conditioned by perception.




paul

 

[atheist88]

Time doesn't move, we move through time (just as we move through space). We can vary our rate of movement through each of the dimensions, or rather we can exchange movement in some dimensions for movement in another as the magnitude of the vector representing our movement will always be constant - c.

I think Green Dragon has the right of it when he says that we use entropy to measure time. It doesn't measure the passage of time, but it does measure the direction. As for why there is a direction, why entropy increases, why virtually all subatomic processes are identical when you reverse the clock (and charge polarity and a couple other key values) but things at a macro level aren't reversible... Good questions, and I haven't seen any good answers.

Thinking of our moving through the 4 dimensions at a constant speed c is an excellent example. I had forgotten it could be explained so simply, thanks for reminding me.

To an earlier poster who said that we can only change our speed through time by moving really fast through space, there is another way. Gravity changes time as well which also presents a problem with the vector example now that I think about it. If we are being held up by the surface of the earth, we are not expending any of out total speed to any vector other than time, ignoring angular velocity and such. Perhaps it has something to do with gravity simply being and acceleration. Can you shine any light on this michabo?

By the way, all this talk of changing the rate of time is a little misleading. The rate only changes relative to something else. If you were caught up in the spaceship that starts going really fast you would notice no discernable different in the rate at which your time flows. It would only be noticable when compared to the people still on earth.

 

[quatona]

Time is like a giant screen that´s pulled constantly forward by billions of little non-physical elfs.