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Would it continue if one singular subatomic particle kept moving? If so, could time then be said to be dependent on the movement of such a tiny, unexceptional object?.
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I am also no physicist.I'm no physicist, but isn't time a measure of change? So, if nothing at all changed, then time would stop.
I think it has something to do with entropy, but I don’t know much beyond that.I'm no physicist, but isn't time a measure of change? So, if nothing at all changed, then time would stop.
I do ask how it could be measured. Because that is the question that has to be asked. You need some frame of reference, an "outside".If absolutely everything in the universe, from supernovae to subatomic particles, stopped moving for a minute (and no, don't ask how it could happen or be measured) would time have stopped for that minute?
Technically time is eternal. A sliding scale would be more accurate. That has a stop and start. When you think about it, the time line is infinite. At what point does infinity have a beginning and an end? Even if things were frozen solid and nothing moved whatsoever, one could say there's still a duration of time although you probably wouldn't be able to tell if you were not around at the start of the duration nor the end of the duration. It's probably why we have so much difficulty.If absolutely everything in the universe, from supernovae to subatomic particles, stopped moving for a minute (and no, don't ask how it could happen or be measured) would time have stopped for that minute?
Would it continue if one singular subatomic particle kept moving? If so, could time then be said to be dependent on the movement of such an tiny, unexceptional object?
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I don't think it would matter since time is relative and always move forward. If you stop moving and stand here on Earth, you are experiencing time differently than me, if I were moving near the speed of light. But that doesn't mean that im experiencing a time stop, but rather its going much slower for me relative to you. So while you have aged 60 years, I might only have aged 5 years once I come back to Earth, depending on the speed and amount of time I have been travelling.If absolutely everything in the universe, from supernovae to subatomic particles, stopped moving for a minute (and no, don't ask how it could happen or be measured) would time have stopped for that minute?
Would it continue if one singular subatomic particle kept moving? If so, could time then be said to be dependent on the movement of such an tiny, unexceptional object?
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I don't think the age thing means anything.I don't think it would matter since time is relative and always move forward. If you stop moving and stand here on Earth, you are experiencing time differently than me, if I were moving near the speed of light. But that doesn't mean that im experiencing a time stop, but rather its going much slower for me relative to you. So while you have aged 60 years, I might only have aged 5 years once I come back to Earth, depending on the speed and amount of time I have been travelling.
So if you should experience a complete time stop, I think it would have to be the exact opposite, that everything would have to move at the speed of light. But then again might be wrong
If absolutely everything in the universe, from supernovae to subatomic particles, stopped moving for a minute (and no, don't ask how it could happen or be measured) would time have stopped for that minute?
Would it continue if one singular subatomic particle kept moving? If so, could time then be said to be dependent on the movement of such an tiny, unexceptional object?
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If absolutely everything in the universe, from supernovae to subatomic particles, stopped moving for a minute (and no, don't ask how it could happen or be measured) would time have stopped for that minute?
No matter how fast or slow you go, you will always be the same age as that person on Earth is when you return.
Time is an abstraction which helps us manage and analyse events. It is not an objective phenomenon.
Our best tested theories say that it is exactly as objective and real as space, because they cannot be separated and are, so some extent, interchangeable from the perspectives of different observers.
Not sure, I understand what you mean with that?I don't think the age thing means anything.
No matter how fast or slow you go, you will always be the same age as that person on Earth is when you return.
I think it has something to do with entropy, but I don’t know much beyond that.
Time is something that exists for us because we measure its relationshipIf absolutely everything in the universe, from supernovae to subatomic particles, stopped moving for a minute (and no, don't ask how it could happen or be measured) would time have stopped for that minute?
Would it continue if one singular subatomic particle kept moving? If so, could time then be said to be dependent on the movement of such an tiny, unexceptional object?
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