Is Time An Illusion?

SmokeAndMirrors · 02-13-2018, 08:49 AM

Time is real, it's just not the way that we think of it in simplicity. Time is just a unit of measurement. In all actuality, it isn't linear. It's bi-linear. The passage of time, and the scale of how you would measure it by planetary rotation, is going to be different on Earth than it would be, on say, Jupiter, for example.

Pet_Sounds · 02-15-2018, 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by SmokeAndMirrors

Time is real, it's just not the way that we think of it in simplicity. Time is just a unit of measurement. In all actuality, it isn't linear. It's bi-linear. The passage of time, and the scale of how you would measure it by planetary rotation, is going to be different on Earth than it would be, on say, Jupiter, for example.

Come again?

EDIT: Never mind, I get it. At a cursory glance, I thought you were saying that time would literally move more slowly on Jupiter.

**Frownland** · 02-15-2018, 09:25 PM

I thought that was the case though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grav..._time_dilation

Pet_Sounds · 02-15-2018, 10:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

I thought that was the case though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grav..._time_dilation

Yeah, but if you were actually standing on Jupiter you wouldn't notice anything. At first I was trying to comprehend what SmokeAndMirrors meant, but then I realized he probably wasn't talking about relativity but instead about how your standard of a "day" would be different on a planet with a different orbital period and radius and multiple moons.

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SmokeAndMirrors Music Addict Join Date: Feb 2018 Location: In the Void Posts: 174	Time is real, it's just not the way that we think of it in simplicity. Time is just a unit of measurement. In all actuality, it isn't linear. It's bi-linear. The passage of time, and the scale of how you would measure it by planetary rotation, is going to be different on Earth than it would be, on say, Jupiter, for example.