Time Stops . . . . . . . . . Or Not

[Revoltingest]

Time never stops. Period.

How would you detect it if it did?

 

[syo]

How would you detect it if it did?

Easy. The universe would be destroyed. Including me.

 

[Revoltingest]

Easy. The universe would be destroyed. Including me.

Why would that have to happen?

 

[syo]

Why would that have to happen?

Time is past, present, future. You can't have only one of the three dimensions of time. All three are inseparable.

 

[SoyLeche]

Time is past, present, future. You can't have only one of the three dimensions of time. All three are inseparable.

I don't think you understand what a "dimension" is...

That's like saying you have to go either left or right. You can't stay in one place.

 

[syo]

I don't think you understand what a "dimension" is...

What is it?

 

[SoyLeche]

What is it?

"a measurable extent of some kind, such as length, breadth, depth, or height."

There is no reason something can't have zero as it's measure of length. The same is true of time.

 

[Revoltingest]

Time is past, present, future. You can't have only one of the three dimensions of time. All three are inseparable.

Hey, stopping time isn't part of the physics we understand.
So if stoppage is possible, then survival might as well be.

 

[syo]

"a measurable extent of some kind, such as length, breadth, depth, or height."

There is no reason something can't have zero as it's measure of length. The same is true of time.

Then I rephrase. Time has past, present, future. These three are inseparable.

 

[SoyLeche]

"a measurable extent of some kind, such as length, breadth, depth, or height."

There is no reason something can't have zero as it's measure of length. The same is true of time.

Might be better to say that there's no reason something can't stop moving from right to left. The same is true of time.

There are plenty of reasons why the stopping of time would be (probably?) impossible. Many of them have been given in this thread. The "dimensions" of time isn't one of them.

 

[SoyLeche]

Then I rephrase. Time has past, present, future. These three are inseparable.

Yeah. And?

 

[syo]

Hey, stopping time isn't part of the physics we understand.
So if stoppage is possible, then survival might as well be.

There are physics we don't understand???

 

[syo]

Yeah. And?

You can't have one without the other. So time never stops.

 

[Revoltingest]

There are physics we don't understand???

The premise of the OP is that time stops.
I say that the physics we do understand
would make the stoppage immeasurable.

 

[syo]

The premise of the OP is that time stops.
I say that the physics we do understand
would make the stoppage immeasurable.

I'd also add ''impossible''.

 

[Revoltingest]

I'd also add ''impossible''.

If you reject the premise of the thread,
there's nothing to discuss.

 

[SoyLeche]

You can't have one without the other. So time never stops.

I don't see how that follows. If movement from left to right can stop, then so can movement from past to future.

 

[syo]

I don't see how that follows. If movement from left to right can stop, then so can movement from past to future.

How?

 

[SoyLeche]

How?

The OP gives one possibility.

I've already said that the stoppage of time is probably impossible. Not for the reason you are putting forward though. Stopping time wouldn't make "past", "present" or "future" not exist. It would stall the movement from one to the other is all.

Given the math, there's no good reason why time can't go backwards either, FWIW.

 

[syo]

It would stall the movement from one to the other is all.

what one to the other?