Is time linear?

[olicon]

Time is always linear..with respect to your perspective.
Of course if I'm going at a drastically different speed from you (or under very different gravitational field) then time would be quite different between us.

It's possible that time itself does not exist, only an infinite number of frames with nothing connecting them. Or, it could exist, but be unstable. as long as time is a uniform presense throughout the universe, we have no way of knowing whether it slows down, speeds up, or stops altogether... for a time. God that's confusing.

Or it could be just linear. The problem is we can never know for sure. It could be a million other things as well. I do like your theory though. Interestingly, an arguement for God existing states that he lasts forever, as he is timeless and lives outside of time.

Time can be just an infinite number of frames that are all connected as well though. As I have said, it is scientifically impossible to prove, only philosophically.

We do have some idea of what time is (from physical perspective) though. There is an experiment that measures muon decay as it falls through earth's atmosphere. It turns out that according to the decay rate of the muons, time is very different from the perspective of muon (which is moving very quickly) and us (relatively fixed, compared to velocity of the muons).

 

[fraserfj]

time isnt a linear sequence of events, its made from a wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey sphere.

 

[Lukeje]

I just woke up, so... well nothing but a warning.

Time is movement. If everything stands still, time stands still.

Movement is warmth. If something reaches absolute zero, it absolutely stands still.

Warmth is energy. Hence, time is energy.

Not exactly an answer, but these are my thoughts on the subject. Anyone care to comment on it?

Two words: Residual Entropy.

 

[VeX1le]

NO TIME IS NOT IN A LINE IT IS IN A CIRClE THAT IS WHY CLOCKS ARE ROUND!

cookies and pie for reference

Caboose! i win, now give me my cookies.

also i find any talk of time travel too confusing.

cookies and pie for this man good sir

 

[elricik]

I think this thread has more internet mimes than actual answers.

 

[FightThePower]

That is a bit of a mind bender. With a question like this, I just think of the Doctor's explaination of time: A great big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey? stuff.

"People think time is a straight line from cause to effect, but from a non-linear, non-subjective point of view it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey...stuff."

That episode was awesome.