Something Eternal

J. Stew · #1 12-22-2005, 09:12 AM

No control over time here bro. That doesn't make time any less of a concept though. Quite useful but still a concept, do you not see that?

#2 12-23-2005, 08:34 AM

Nah, I don't see why time can't be seen as a sure thing, measurable and testable, I know that time is there ticking along, I know what has happened in the past and can make assumptions about the future.

#3 12-23-2005, 08:39 AM

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No, time doesn't tick along. Time is only a measure of change. If there is absolutely no change in the universe, there is no time interval.

Think about it. Time is only relative to a change (clock, uranium decay, whatever). If there is no change anywhere (and not in your clock), there is no change and no time interval.

Time is relative, it is a derived measure, not an absolute one.

#4 12-23-2005, 12:29 PM

0 + 0 = 0

Ok, if there were a time when change never existed then there would be no change here and now, eh?

Because something exists now, anything, a 1. I can reason that there has been something that is eternal.

1. Something exists now
2. There was never absolute nothing.
3. Something is eternal