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Existence of Time
Name: Unknown
Status: N/A
Age: N/A
Location: N/A
Country: N/A
Date: Around 1993
Question:
How do we know that time exists? I know that clocks tell what
time it currently is, and that we age as this so called "time" passes. But
what factual reason is there that explains HOW time exists, and if it truly
does? But what scientific reasons are there for its actual existence?
Replies:
Well, how do we know that anything exists? We look around
ourselves, observe the world, and come to some conclusions about it. Time
seems to be a very useful concept in making the world make sense. Human
observations of the world about us are perfectly acceptable scientific reasons
for stating that time exists. Science is incapable of proving anything, and
although some people seem to think that some scientific theories are
infallible, and therefore can be relied on to prove things about the world,
such notions are really not compatible with true science - science rests on
observation, NOT on theory. Theory simply helps make sense of the
observations. The first thing in a scientific approach to anything is
measurement. Can we measure time? Yes! To fractions of a picosecond, these
days. But, if you want to hold out and claim that time does not exist, that
it is all a figment of our imaginations, that in fact there is only one time
ever, which is the present, and all the past never existed, well, that is up
to you.
A. Smith
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