The Nature of Time

Steve Dufourny

So Jim I speak about the fact that this parameter that we have invented for the motions and changes is essential to measure and calculate. In cosmology it is the same we consider the light speed c and the evolution and that permits to extrapolate the motions of this cosmology. The real important question for me is with the early universe ... is the time foundamental or emergent, all is there in fact.In other words what is responsible of this arrow of time.

This time is really taken like a foundamental quantity in fact , a scalar.Even in the equation of schrodinger, this time is essential......in thermo its irreversibility is essential on the entropical arrow of time. In mechanics, newtonian or others, it is a foundamental. And even in the general relativity it is considered.

Jim Snowdon

Hi Steve,

Is Entropy not the Arrow of Time? Is Entropy not matter in Motion?

Jim Snowdon

Hi David,

You say, "I do leave room for the possibility that time is a spin off of motion in some way, but I think that is unlikely and unnecessary..."

Are you saying time sometimes exists, if a particular motion is involved?

Steve Dufourny

Hi Jim,

It is a sense given for the law of entropy. It is for example for a closed system without equilibrium and so the level of entropy must increase.So it permits still to measure simply the levels of entropies at different moments in time. The time ia always in the same direction in fact. It is this irreversibility the big difference witgh this time taken like a dimension , but for me it is not really a dimension due to this irreversibility but a scalar different.

Steve Dufourny

You know Jim, this time in its general irreversibility is very intriguing. In fact I believe that we must consider it relativelly in function of how we consider it. The real relevance is to link the quantum mechanics , the general relativity and the time more the thermo more the cosmological arrow of time and our psychology of interpretation more and it is the most important for me the gravitational arrow of time, WHY ? because for me the main codes and informations are gravitational and are correlated with the complexity of the evolution , that is why we need the codes and main informations of this space vacuum to harmonise all this in a pure irreversibility. So the paradox is about the disorders for the actual reasoning but not for the entropical gravitational arrow of time .........

Jim Snowdon

I think of Entropy like a candle burning? A change of form where matter disperses into it`s constituent elements.

Steve Dufourny

This entropy Jim is a kind of concept to measure the states or levels of disorders and uncertainty generally. We utlise it in many systems , in theoretical physics there is a direction . It seems important to correlate with the shannon entropy and the informations , it is there that it becomes relevant considering our actual standard model wich is not complete about the main philosophical causes and so the main informations creating our topologies, geometries, there are deeper parameters entropical to superimpose at my humble opinion. We consider actually the second law of thermo and the heat , but these properties are mergent from a deeper logic .It is this the main important thing to discover. The works of von neumann and my theory if we have 3 main systems of spheres merging could permit to go deeper in these entropical analysis and the correlated time emergent due to motions and changes.

Jim Snowdon

Steve,

After thousands of years of using time in equations, time still has not been understood.

Why? It`s my observation that we use the planet`s rotational motion to provide the basis of our time keeping systems.

Jim Snowdon

Hi David,

Time is not a river of water flowing, that we can measure. Time, as a thing, is assumed to flow. We don`t need it to, because we use the Earth`s rotational motion to base our time keeping systems on. We use the motion to measure.

Clocks measure rotation.

Georgina Woodward

Hi David, I've just come across your buried post where you say that 'configuration of existence' is vague. I'm referring to material things and substances that exists. Configuration means 'pattern of' or 'arrangement of'. A time, is a pattern of material things and material substances. A different time is a different pattern. Foundational passage of time is the change of pattern of what materially exists. This is different from emergent passage of time which is the sequence of observation products. It is not synchronized with Foundational passage of time because of, primarily, transmission delay ( of potential sensory stimuli eg. "light".)

Georgina Woodward

Hi David. Given that vision and hearing require sensory input. And that input is used to form Present experience. It can be argued that the inputs that are not yet received but in the environment -Now (I.e. potential stimuli) be regarded as pre-written future. Both pre-written future and records and memories are -parts of -Now, not different time realms.

Jim Snowdon

When we are sitting in a base on the Dark side of the Moon, we will be able to see the Beautiful planet Earth, imperceptibly revolving against the dark Star filled sky.

There will be a clock on the wall showing Earth time. Also a clock for each time zone, so people can place calls without waking the recipients.

There will be a Moon clock on the wall for local use, but I`m not sure what motion it will be based on?

But, it will be based on motion.

Steve Dufourny

the second has been utilised and is an unite of measure with the cesium atom and its oscillations.And we have simply correlated this with the minute in the basis 60.It is just a tool you know to measure the motions and changes.

Jim Snowdon

Hi Steve,

Beyond the measurement abilities of motions, is time not assigned values in equations?

Steve Dufourny

Hi Jim, it is always utilised in our equations, mainly in the newtonian physics like in the relativity , even for the gravitational constant too.Even for the schrodinger equation or others.In fact this time is everywhere utilised with this second like basis

Jim Snowdon

Is time always utilized in the same way in Physics equations?

Steve Dufourny

yes it is about to measure what a clock reads with this second like basis. It is linear for newton, for eisntein it is with this spacetime of the relativity, in thermos it is this irreversibility entropical , in the quantum mechanics it is with the schrodinger equation.They all measure the sequences of events, motions, changes,durations.

Jim Snowdon

When we are spending extended periods in the Moon base on the Dark side of the Moon, looking out at the black star filled sky for days at a time, there will be a change in our sense of time passing, or duration elapsing.

Our conscious appreciation of time will change.

Jim Snowdon

If time is utilized in those various applications, how does a definition of time emerge?

Jim Snowdon

In 2008 FQXi had an essay contest on the nature of time in the hopes of finding the solution to the age old problem.

There was no evidence presented as to the origin of time, no evidence accepted, other than the winning essay stating time does not exist.

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