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Originally Posted by Glacier Serenade
"Knowing" that time doesn't exist doesn't really make much of a difference for me. If it didn't exist then yes, time travel would not be possible and that would suck for sure, but otherwise, using the word 'time' is simply just a way of referring to what the present used to be, is currently and what could/will be.
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Personally I look at it the opposite way, "time travel" IS possible because time doesnt exist.
anyways let me jump on the topic here aswell
This is just a brief explanation of what Time really is
Time is a measurement of the difference between two points defined as "Then" and "Now"
If you Compare "Then" to "Now" I.e. "How long does it take for Then to become Now" you will get a number of seconds, minutes, hours etc.
If you Compare "Now" to "Then" "How long does it take for Now to become Then" you will get a number aswell
So whats the difference? which you compare to what. Since "Then" is both the Future and Past. which you compare to what, is the deciding factor.
"How long does it take for Then to become Now" = How does it take for the Future to become the Present
"How long does it take for Now to become Then" = How long does it take for the Present to become the Past.
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Time says that changing the past is impossible. If it was 10 AM 5 minutes ago, you cant change that.
but if time does NOT exist, doesn't that mean you CAN change what time it was 5 minutes ago?
If you did, did you really? or did you just end up in an alternate timeline where "time" was different than in the original timeline you were in.
When we forget things, do we actually forget, or does the memory stop existing because the past was altered?
and when we manage to remember again, does that mean the past was changed back to its former state?
Just a sidenote
What if the world ended 5 minutes ago due to something that happened 5000 years ago, and someone went back into the past 5000 years ago, stopped something there, and the world never ended 5 minutes ago. We would never been able to tell if that actually happened or not because everything was "reverted" to its former state.
This also brings about the question on how much freedom we actually have over reality.
time not existing makes sense based on this:
Think of when you dream. I have been told that when you dream, your soul actually travels to a different realm or different universe and lives a life there, then comes back before you wake up.
People have even spoken about dreams that have lasted a lifetime, happen in the course of 8 hours of "sleep"
if that is infact true, the soul must be time travellingt does it not?
You fall asleep, then leave Universe A, enter universe B, live in universe B for 75 years. then enter Universe A 8 hours after you left it.
Or the opposite, you leave Universe A, enter universe C instead, spend 5 minutes in Universe C, then go back to Universe A, and find out that 7 hours have passed in Universe A.
If "time" doesnt exist, something far more complex that gives us far more freedom exists which allows what we call "time-travel"
you could say that different universes exists on different wavelengths and vibrations, and thus "time" goes faster / slower in other universes compared to this one.
They say Archangels can be multiple places at once, but are they really? What if the layer, or wavelength they originally exist on, "time" goes so fast, that our universe, appears frozen in time. meaning they could run halfway across the earth, exchange a word, run back, exchange another word, before we could even realize a moment has passed.
The possibilities are endless, and in my opinion; as it should be.