I don't know if movies represent the general conception of time correctly or not. — TheMadFool
Oh my God. Are you seriously asking whether science fiction movies represent something correctly? It's fiction, fantasy. It's not meant to represent anything. — Metaphysician Undercover
I just find it interesting that the concept of time that is most appealing is when it's expressed through change. — TheMadFool
Unless there is a valid scientific reason for the universe to profoundly change, like time stopping, one should default to the belief that time continues to progress whether or not the matter is in motion.time is transcendent: a river in which we ride and in which events occur. But why should we believe this?
Speaking for myself, I think time is basically change - in matter (color, texture, etc.) and space (location, size). Without change time would be, to say the least, meaningless. Imagine a world in which nothing changes. We wouldn't be able to distinguish the state of such a universe on the framework of time. Day 1 would be exactly the same as day 20 or day n resulting in us being unable to recognize whether time has stopped or is moving forwards or backwards.
So, change is a more fundamental concept to time. Change is the foundation of the idea of time. Since we can imagine a world without change (there is no contradiction) it implies that time is unique to world's like ours where change occurs.
Does this mean time is invented?
I find it difficult to say NO! — TheMadFool
Science avoids the controversy and gives an operational definition which is: Time is the quantity measured by a clock. — TheMadFool
If that's the case then I have a fun legit way of traveling backwards in time in a very restricted sense. — TheMadFool
Yes, civilization, the world created by humans.By world you mean civilization I believe, because the world runs better than clockwork. — Vince
Yes ... but I was imagining each musician playing subjectively with musical time. Crash and burn! ;-)Music already runs on subjective time though, at the speed of the conductor,
Interesting. One of the things that fascinates me most about music is how time flows in/through it.The funny thing to me, as a musician I feel like listening to music and playing it appears to slow down time.
Imagine if the world ran on subjective/experienced time. Symphonies would fall apart halfway through. — rachMiel
Thank God for God ... without whose Godly unbroken observation of ALL, things would keep popping in and out of existence! — rachMiel
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