TIME  IS NOT

 

 

 

 

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Time does not exist in the physical world outside of the mind.

 

Time is not a thing, or a place, or a wave, or a force or form of energy.

 

Time is a creation of the mind, a concept, a theory, merely a mental construct; a useful fiction of human imagination. 

 

Time is a comparison. A comparison between (1) the duration in the present of a particular movement that is made by some physical thing that mankind has adopted as a standard for comparison, and (2) the duration in the present of a particular movement that is made by some other physical thing which is measured relative to that standard.

 

The standard duration that is adopted for the purpose of comparison is typically the duration in the present of a generally invariable, repetitious movement that a particular physical thing makes, at a generally invariable speed, over a generally invariable distance.

 

For example: The recurring and generally fixed duration of the movement of the Earth as it makes one revolution on its axis in the eternal present (commonly called a “day”) is an adopted standard for comparison of duration which is used to measure the duration of other things. Similarly, the recurring and generally fixed duration in the eternal present of the movement of the Earth as it makes one revolution in its orbit around the Sun (commonly called a “year”) is an adopted standard for comparison of duration which is used to measure the duration of other things. Accordingly, as just one of innumerable possible examples, if we decided that we wanted to breakup what we call a “day” into 24 smaller parts, we could put just enough sand into a device that we call an “hourglass” so that the sand will run from the top to the bottom of the hourglass twenty four times during that “day” – and we will have thereby created the mental concept of an “hour”. Of course, we could have decided to divide our so-called “day” in to one hundred parts, or into any other number of parts, that we thought would be useful to serve our purposes. But in all events what we are doing is merely making mathematical comparisons of the duration in the present of the movement of one thing to the duration of the motion in the present of another thing that has been adopted as a standard for comparison.

 

Comparisons of duration are made; but the time during which things physically exist does not change.

 

The time did not change at all during the period from the first moment of what is commonly referred to as the “year 1,000” until the first moment of the “year 2,000”, everything just moved in the eternal present for the duration of that period; and the duration of the movement of things during that period is just a measurement made by making a comparison – a comparison of the duration of that movement in the eternal present, to (for the purpose of this example) the number of times that the Earth makes a revolution in its orbit around the Sun in the eternal present during the duration of the movement being measured.

 

Time is a measurement, like a mile, a yard, and an inch are measurements. A mile, and a yard, and an inch, do not exist as things in and of themselves in the physical world, they are all merely mental constructs, ideas, fictions of human imagination; distances (sometimes called sizes) that mankind has selected as standards for comparison to the distance between (or the size of) other things. Similarly time does not exist: A minute, a day, and a year, do not exist; they are merely mental constructs, ideas, fictions of human imagination, durations that mankind has selected as standards for comparison – for the comparison of the duration of the movement of one thing in the eternal present to the duration of the movement of other things in that same, one, unchanging, eternal present.

 

Wherever (and everywhere) a thing was before it is where it is now, it was always there in the same, one-and-only, eternal,  presently existing moment that exists now.  Wherever (and everywhere) a thing will be after it moves someplace other than where it is now, it will always be there in the same, one-and-only, eternal, presently existing moment that exists now. Wherever any thing is now, it  is there in the eternal present. And throughout the duration of the existence of a thing, as it moves from one place to another, it is always in the exact same eternally present moment that exists now; the same eternally present moment that always has and always will exist. Things continually move and exist in the eternal present; and the time does not change as it does so.

 

Things were formerly in places other than where they are now, and every thing will continually move to some place else; all in the same eternal present that exists now. Things move. The so-called time does not change.

 

There is, of course, “before” and “after”; but “before” and “after” only refer to some thing’s location, not to when that thing was, or is, or will be, at one or another location. Some thing that is at point X before it moves to point Y, was in fact at point X before it was at point Y; but it is nonetheless located both at point X and at point Y at the same, one-and-only eternally present instant that exists now. Similarly, some thing that is at point X after being  at point Y, is in fact at point X after it was at point X; but it is nonetheless located both at point X and point Y at the same, one-and-only eternally present instant that exists now. Do not be confused because some thing cannot in fact be in two places at once. The reason that such confusion can arise is by assuming (most often subconsciously) that time actually exists, when in fact it does not. Just remember that there are things, and there is space, and that things move in space, and that is all that there is; because “time” is merely a mental construct, a fiction of human imagination, which in the physical world outside of the mind in fact does not exist.

Time is not.

 

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