Is it true that today scientists and many philosophers see TIME as an ILLUSION?

Question

I read that today the scientific community sees time as an effect of our consciousness, that the flow of time is an illusion.
How does this work?
Clearly things are in a constant state of change, just as we are born and die. If time is an illusion how can change occur, and how can we come to be and cease to be? Or is this an illusion as well?

If so can you explain?
Thanks

Sorry, English is not my 1st language.

Answer 1

i still think that science uses time and space as existing and forming our world (dimensions). The term time-space is still used to explain phenomenon. Einstein used the curvature of space-time to explain bending light. I think philosophers have both opinions, and I personally think of time existing outside of the "present". The worlds of before and the existence of the future do not depend on our consciousness to be in them. They exist, but I still believe that it is an illusion. I believe that all of this is an illusion and that only souls are real. If you view time as stoppable (finite), then when it ends, it was an illusion.

Answer 2

It is part of the history of philosophy that certain philosophers have thought that time is an illusion. The classic formulation comes from Parmendies--and it goes to the heart of your question: not time but change: for something to change, it must go from what it is to what it is not; it must go from what exists to what does not exist. What does not exist--does not exist. Therefore change does not exist, and does not happen.



If this formulation leaves you feeling a little let down, you are right. It is only testimony that thinking about such things as time has taken some thought to sort out. Nobody really believes this any more--but even as late as the 19th century, there were philosophers such as Bradley who thought 'time was an illusion'.



Do scientists think time is an illusion? No.

Answer 3

I have read this before. I believe it has to do with things on a quantum level when it has been shown that certain elements will react to a stimulus at precisely the same time no matter what the distance between the objects may be. This supposedly makes time a illusion. Now since time and space are so intertwined maybe space is also a illusion

Answer 4

I don't think they mean it that way. I think they mean ,like let's say we did something yesterday. That memory might not have happened and you are only alive today for the first time. Or it might mean that getting older you are still the same person and as a great philosopher once said is still true, even when getting older. "I know that I know nothing"

after many things you feel nostalgia but you should remember. After reading a great work of literature a person might question himself and ask what if I really am real or if the whole world is my imagining thing happen how you expect them to happen, or rather how your subconscious believes it should happen. This philosophical statement may mean one of many things.

Answer 5

You published this "Is it genuine that on the instant scientists and countless philosophers see TIME as an phantasm?" isn't it? properly... you will possibly desire to comprehend that concept or the way one sees issues is his basic perfect. It has not something to do with somebody else's awareness. If time replaced into fairly an phantasm, then all the equations of Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics, Relativity may be pretend only like the time itself. If adjustments take place in genuine, time might desire to be genuine. The question remains approximately time dilation or the time stated by making use of diverse observers at diverse states, it rather is the illusive face of genuine Time.

Answer 6

I have not heard that science was of this opinion.



In my studies I find an answer for your consideration about time.

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Time is the stream of flowing temporal events perceived by creature consciousness. Time is a name given to the succession-arrangement whereby events are recognized and segregated. The universe of space is a time-related phenomenon as it is viewed from any interior position outside of the fixed abode of Paradise. The motion of time is only revealed in relation to something which does not move in space as a time phenomenon. In the universe of universes Paradise and its Deities transcend both time and space. On the inhabited worlds, human personality (indwelt and oriented by the Paradise Father's spirit) is the only physically related reality which can transcend the material sequence of temporal events.

Answer 7

dosnt seem like u hav an accent anyway. maybe time can be an illusion but ur question like is rlly complicated. um i think u srt of ment is like is evrything an illusion becuz if time and life and changing and our surroundings r illusions theen evrything is. sum maybe think that and theyr thinking of another big picture or sumthing but i dont believe that time is an illusion becuz evrythin wod b an illusion then

Answer 8

All there is is the here and now, thinking about the past or the future is still done in the present, so since the past and the future is really just images, images don't exist, so all there is an ending NOW.

Answer 9

then why are we all seeing the same illusion?

Answer 10

When science adopts religious tenets it ceases to be science. That would be a terrible thing.

Answer 11

...no, unless they are indulging in illicit drugs...