Loop quantum gravity: There is no such thing as Time, which is simply an old concept!

[stu]

Actually time may be the only thing that is constant. Not the measuring of time. Not the passage of time. Just time itself. Everything else is a construct of time. There has never been a time when there was no time. We're just passing through time, however small or large you choose to measure, time is constant. Time does not move. We do.

On the other hand, time itself may be a fundamental specific attribute of every existing thing. Local to everything at the point it starts to exist. So that any thing coming into existence and all of the time associated with it, are conterminous.
Not constant then, but only time itself occurs when some thing happens, or some things happen.

 

[OddTrader]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternalism_(philosophy_of_time)

Eternalism is a philosophical approach to the ontological nature of time, which takes the view that all points in time are equally real, as opposed to the presentist idea that only the present is real,[1] and the growing block universe theory of time in which past and present are real while the future is not.

FATE: “You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. ― Steve Jobs "

http://www.iep.utm.edu/time/

https://www.princeton.edu/~fraassen/BvF - IPTS.pdf

 

[SoesWasBetter]

I glaze over at talk about no such thing as time.

But your mortgage provider doesn't, they calculate it to the second.

 

[SoesWasBetter]

It's possible that all the talk about no such thing as time is conducted by

people with too much time on their hands.

 

[wjk]

Damn!

Wristwatch for sale. Best offer.

I'll trade my flux capacitor for it...and...I'll throw in the Delorean if it's a Rolex.

 

[tommcginnis]

Solvitur ambulando.

 

[Sig]

I keep waiting for someone to point out the internal inconsistency of the thread title. If there is no such thing as time, how can it be an "old" concept!

 

[Frederick Foresight]

I keep waiting for someone to point out the internal inconsistency of the thread title. If there is no such thing as time, how can it be an "old" concept!

I didn't want to steal your thunder.