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Re:A clock that can detect tiny shifts in the flow of time i... by dendory on Monday November 03, 2014 @04:46PM (#8553736)
I'm glad to hear an actual scientist in this field also think what I've thought for a long time, which is that time is a human invention. I can't really explain it, but I've always felt like the universe doesn't really have a concept of time, that everything is just right now, hence why I don't believe in time travel either. Time is just a way for us to say 'something was' or 'will be', but in reality what was isn't anymore, it's not that it's in the past, but that the object was changed into what it now is.
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Re:A clock that can detect tiny shifts in the flow of time i... by fastaguy88 on Monday November 03, 2014 @04:52PM (#8553782)
This may make sense to a physical scientist, but biological phenomena do have a concept of time, because many biological molecules have an evolutionary history. It's not only that something was, but also that something is that embodies the trace of what was.
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