Thye Discover blogger went to a conference on time, but I think he was late.
Is time fundamental or derived?
1. Time exists. Might as well get this common question out of the way. Of course time exists — otherwise how would we set our alarm clocks? Time organizes the universe into an ordered series of moments, and thank goodness; what a mess it would be if reality were complete different from moment to moment. The real question is whether or not time is fundamental, or perhaps emergent. We used to think that “temperature” was a basic category of nature, but now we know it emerges from the motion of atoms. When it comes to whether time is fundamental, the answer is: nobody knows. My bet is “yes,” but we’ll need to understand quantum gravity much better before we can say for sure.
I have a problem with the standard model and time. Is thier a time particle? No time particle, no time constant. How could a time particle have velocity in a standard particle model?
Time is not real, folks, it is an illusion we have created to simplify the math.
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