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Sounds like a deep quote I read from that page in Reader's Digest.
If that page was authored by Douglas Adams then yes that’s where you read it.
"Very deep," said Arthur, "you should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you."
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I think the answer to this is to do more interesting things on a regular basis. If every weekend you do something different, then the month feels longer than when you stay home every weekend.
I've long been skeptical of this explanation. Later school ages (junior high and high school) were probably the most monotonous and regimented part of my life, period—I've certainly never experienced that much concentrated, intense boredom without any way to do anything about it—yet subjective time had only barely sped up from elementary school. It should then have slowed way down in college, but it didn't. It should…
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The speed of light is still just the movement of something over a measured distance.
I can flip that around and say that a distance is just the movement of something over a measured time. By your original argument, distance doesn't exist.
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If that page was authored by Douglas Adams then yes that’s where you read it.
I was making a reference the next line in the book: "Very deep," said Arthur, "you should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you."
Time is the direction in which entropy always increases. It's the most real thing there is.
does entropy always increase? are there systems or forms of matter that literally cheat entropy?
Time doesn't exist as an independent physical objective entity , it exists only as a measurement. Sometimes we represent that measurement with physical objects, such as with clocks or watches or in our heads (I can hold my breath for N seconds). It's no different than your height existing as a measurement, or the distance from here to the wall existing a measurement, or the distance of 10 meters existing. There are p…
I prefer a view of time closer to yours I think, where there is a single moment of existence, the now, that evolves.
Time is the direction in which entropy always increases. It's the most real thing there is.
Or at least tends to increase. Entropy can always spontaneously decrease, or can simply not increase for a moment. This was actually discussed a week ago! [1] As discussed in those comments, entropy isn't well-formulated outside of equilibrium states, and is subjective: it is a function of an observer's knowledge of the system (particularly microstates). I'd say time is very real, and an inescapable part of experienc…
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velocity is defined as distance over unit time so I’m not sure how you square that circle
Semantics but velocity being a measurement of somethings movement through a distance is exactly what I'm saying time is. I've stated that we use time to describe stuff, like velocity. But "time" as a physical property like gravity does not exist.