What would happen if one day you woke up
and time no longer existed. Now i'm not
talking about stopping time or what we
may think of as the definition of time, I
mean no time, no flow from past to present
to future, no entropy just now, the
present. No clocks, no calendars, no hours,
minutes, seconds, days, years, millennia , aeons,
just now. In this little thought
experiment let's assume that time has
existed up until you woke up and then
ceased to exist anywhere in the universe.
Now everything in your life, all your
memories of your past and of what is to come
in your future, all the events anywhere
from Big Bang to the decay of the last
atom in the universe is here now, with no
sequential progression from one point to
another or flow of time, like a kind of
random access universe compared to one
on videotape for example. This is not the
same theory as presentism where only the
present is real and both past and future
unrea, it has more in common with Eternalism
where the past present and future
all exist in their own right but there
is no method of progression
other than that of the observer
selecting what to view and even that idea
breaks down without time. The lack of time
is such an alien concept because our
lives, in fact everything in the universe
since the Big Bang has been a continuous
state change from one point to another, a
process of cause-and-effect defined by
the laws of physics in an unbroken line
that will continue until all the energy
in the universe is a same level
and all activity stops and effectively
time stops. If time had not existed at
all
nothing could have started, nothing could
have progressed from the instant of the
Big Bang, so no stars have condensed out
of the soup of primitive particles, no
planets were formed around stars, no life
would have evolved on the planet so
therefore, no you or me or this little
thought experiment. But there is another
possibility in that everything that will
ever happen has already happened and in
this case could it be possible to have
the universe with you mean it and just
take away time. So to continue of our
little thought experiment, without time
would your life turn in to a dreamlike
state where seemingly random events
coalesce and merge from one to another and
like being in a dream would it feel normal
to you but to an outsider in our normal
linear time view of the world, would it
just look like a mixed-up jumble events.
It would be like taking a film and cuting
it up into the individual frames and
just throwing the pieces into the air
like confetti and then looking at each
frame randomly. Nothing would make sense,
how would you be born, grow up, grow old,
die.
How would be universe work without time.
With no time
how could you even string thoughts or
sentences together, each thought we have
is a progression, the spoken sentence I'm
saying now could not exist as you are
hearing it all the words would appear on
top of each other, in fact without time
even that explanation would not be
correct because it takes time each word
to be spoken and understood even if they
were spoken at once.
Without time they're mean would have to
be instantly transferred but then how
would you know it would order the words
were meant to be
how would you convey meaning with an
instant jumble of words, letter, sounds
visions and though fragments without placing
them in sequence. Even the very moments
thought that we have a time-based
because they unfold in our memories. We
re-run them in our minds as if they were
happening again but with the boring,
painful and embarrassing but it's edited
out. We have very selective memories
which is why nostalgia and the past is so
often seen as so rose-tinted. Without time
the very make of these thoughts could
not exist.
How small was the fragments of your
memories need to be. What would you cut
them up into, seconds of thought, milliseconds,
nanosecond, Planck time. A plank unit of
time is the smallest unit of time in
classical physics before we descend into
the quantum realm. A Planck unit of time
is 10 -43
seconds and this is based on the amount
of time it takes a photon travelling at the
speed of light to travel the smallest
unit of measurement, a Planck length.
which is about 10 -20 times
the size of a proton. Without time even
this explanation would make no sense
because it could not travel anywhere, no
matter how short, light would make no
sense as all the photons you have seen
or will ever see would be here right now.
In our normal universe, if we could hitch
a ride on a particle of light or photon,
we would be in a timeless state. According
to Einstein's theory of relativity, as
you approach speed of light, time slows
down and as our photon is traveling at
the speed of light time would actually
stop our photon would experience no time,
even though to us it might be on a 10 billion
year journey across the universe
to the photon it's at both the start and
the end of this journey.
Therefore to it, a timeless object it has
traveled zero distance in space-time.
Take that to its logical conclusion and
in a timeless universe all the light
from every star that would ever exist
would all be here now, so there would be
no distance, if there is no distance then
there is no size. Everything every
thought, all the knowledge of every
living being anywhere in the universe,
every action, all the matter, all the
energy in the universe that would ever
exist would all be in the now all in one
infinitely small point. Maybe it's the
nearest thing to be instant before or
at the point of the Big Bang. One other
description also fits that previous
statement. An all-knowing, omnipotent
force of everything that ever was or
ever will be in one point. Think about it
doesn't that define man's idea of God. So
when people say they had a near-death
experience and were drawn to the light
maybe they were on a trip to a timeless
dimension. So as we can see the universe
without what we would call or perceive as
the sequential progression or flow of
time would either not exist at all or be
everything at once. Beings living in such
a universe would be nothing like we
could conceive because we have no frame of
reference for the possibility of a
timeless existence. Time as we perceive
it
is the universal index which sequences
and ties everything together in our minds
so if you want to drive someone mad,
take away their concept of time and
leave them floating in the sea of random
thoughts fragments. So as always thanks
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