I just re-watched the Wubbo video (& going to watch the Buddhist one), but I have a question that I'm hoping someone here can answer.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding this new theory, but it just doesn't make sense to me because Wubbo says that "physicists still think that if we all died, time would still exist", implying it wouldn't, or really stressing his point that it's a construct of our central nervous system.
All well and good, but if we DO die, or, before we ever lived, supposedly things still moved(/will move), planets formed, stars died, etc. Even here on our planet — it orbits the sun regardless of us, it turns regardless of us. I understand time to be the measurement of the motion of something over a distance... so it seems that the only way for that measurement to disappear is if, outside of our perception, everything is infinitely happening at the same time (the earth is always facing all directions; everything in the universe is always in every possible state it could ever be), which is just like "spooky action at a distance" and truly hard to comprehend.
Is that what he's saying? Or am I missing something?
*Edit:
The video Alex posted was really helpful in further explaining the concept (thanks!). The word I forgot when writing originally was "change", and the fact that the act of observation is essentially what is being measured by time.
But my question still remains, because things seem to change outside of / despite us, which strengthens my thought that maybe they are eternally in all states.
Hey guys,
I just re-watched the Wubbo video (& going to watch the Buddhist one), but I have a question that I'm hoping someone here can answer.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding this new theory, but it just doesn't make sense to me because Wubbo says that "physicists still think that if we all died, time would still exist", implying it wouldn't, or really stressing his point that it's a construct of our central nervous system.
All well and good, but if we DO die, or, before we ever lived, supposedly things still moved(/will move), planets formed, stars died, etc. Even here on our planet — it orbits the sun regardless of us, it turns regardless of us. I understand time to be the measurement of the motion of something over a distance... so it seems that the only way for that measurement to disappear is if, outside of our perception, everything is infinitely happening at the same time (the earth is always facing all directions; everything in the universe is always in every possible state it could ever be), which is just like "spooky action at a distance" and truly hard to comprehend.
Is that what he's saying? Or am I missing something?
*Edit:
The video Alex posted was really helpful in further explaining the concept (thanks!). The word I forgot when writing originally was "change", and the fact that the act of observation is essentially what is being measured by time.
But my question still remains, because things seem to change outside of / despite us, which strengthens my thought that maybe they are eternally in all states.