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View Poll Results: Is Time Real or Imaginary?
Time is a real, fundamental property of the universe. 3 20.00%
Time is an imaginary concept to describe change. 12 80.00%
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Old 02-04-2008, 11:30 AM
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Do you believe that time is a real, absolute property of the universe or just a concept to explain how we experience change?
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Old 02-04-2008, 11:33 AM
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Time is real, but only man has measured it. We govern our lives around the Solar motion. As the universe is expanding, then time is Linear, for time to reverse, the universe must contract. So, time exists, only it wouldn't exist if we didn't measure it.

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Old 02-04-2008, 11:35 AM
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I would follow Einstein on that one and say that time is based on the movementchanges between objects.

Einstein and time..

I would also be very happy with a real time though..
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Time itself is artificial. There is change, and aging, but time is used only to measure these changes.
It would be similiar to a yard/meter. They exist inasmuch as we can perceive it, but it only exists because we have a method to measure them.
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Old 02-04-2008, 12:47 PM
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Do you believe that time is a real, absolute property of the universe or just a concept to explain how we experience change?
There is no past which endures except in our records and memories. There is no future. There is only an eternal "now" moment that changes. If you tried to build a time machine, you would be disappointed, because you would not go anywhere.
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If you can relate to time, then it is both real and imaginary.
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I agree with both poll options. Time is a real dimension, but our perception of it is an abstraction produced entirely in our own minds.
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Do you believe that time is a real, absolute property of the universe or just a concept to explain how we experience change?
I believe that real, absolute properties of the universe are concepts we use to explain how we experience change.

So I guess the answer is "Yes." Does that help?
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There are some cosmologists/physicists that say time doesn't exist, and some that say it does. Real or illusion, take your pick.
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There are some cosmologists/physicists that say time doesn't exist, and some that say it does. Real or illusion, take your pick.
Both.
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