In other words, what is the smallest amount of present time that can exist in order to differentiate the past and future? — JohnLocke
In other words, what is the smallest amount of present time that can exist in order to differentiate the past and future? — JohnLocke
I red your post -past,I write my post-present, you will read my post-future. But all this is in my mind not in yours or in other people's minds.This proves that there are not any time periods for people as a whole. — vesko
Phenomenologically, we experience not only the "present" but also a retention of the past and a protention of the future that anchor us to the world. — darthbarracuda
I opine that existential time is not a mathematical continuum. If it were, then the present would have 'measure zero.' But then how could you read this sentence? — ff0
I agree with you that the mathematical continuum is not an accurate model of the nature of the real world. What's interesting is that physicists are trained to think of an instant of time as a real number t. What's the acceleration at time t, what's the temperature?
The math helps them to craft interesting theories. But the world is definitely not the same as the mathematical real line. The world is not a set of dimensionless points of space and instants of time. — fishfry
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