Originally posted by CesarO
It has been bothering me for quite some time and i hope this is the right place to ask these questions, well here it goes. What i'm trying to
understand is if science has answers for these questions?
1- Does time truly exist or is a tool to better understand our environment?
The perception of time is something that is real because it rests on the consciousness of not just one, but of nearly the entire world. We prioritize,
we plan, we do everything under this thing with no real name, other than what we describe as time based on where the Sun is located. It is a useful
tool.
(If it does, how do we see its effect, Since age is simply the inability of cells to reproduce without deterioration,
clocks/seconds/days/weeks/months/years are just the rotation of our planet around our star around the sun in our galaxy.)
We see a clock's pendulum shift, the hands on another tick. We've integrated this visual understanding, and this sense of time even when there's
nothing present so say that exists but the very motion of things progressing to which we account for it progressing "towards something" often. We
are very integrated into the idea of a beginning and end for everything, even seemingly meaningless matter.
There is an importance of planets rotating around parent stars and around their ecliptic trajectory. This is expressed in a lower sense as time to us
on Earth. The faster you move through space, the distance between two objects if you imagine them, you imagine it based upon time and distance, and
more heavily upon time when you learn of how great the distance may be. You think, is it possible within my time? My children's?
Time in essence is real, and a part of the key to access the puzzle.
2- Why are we so fixated on the idea of beginning and end, is it our lack of understanding or our shortcomings in not being able to see more of
the big picture?
This is what puzzles me so much. The idea of a bigger picture. It seems to me that things as of the start of my life in the 80s, have moved rather
linear. As that seemingly straight line stretches further with titles and numbers guiding it's way, I see that it has bumps, the scatter high, and
the scatter low until the wave wobbles back and becomes a seemingly straight line once more.
I think humans need to focus on the present more than the past and future, because the past is a gateway to thoughts pertaining to guilt, lack of
accomplishment, distrust, self-achievement, the ego, what one hasn't done, could have done, should of down, would have done. It is the foundation of
scheming and dreaming thoughts.
The future is based on bewilderment, hope, patience, awaiting something but also the sense of fear, the sense of not knowing and by risking the
validity of your pre-conceived notions.
The present just is - and that scares people. No matter how far you look forwards the future, you have to understand that you are not only looking to
the future, with every waking moment you are part of both the present and the future, and if you look at things in a total general view, you'd see
that it's simply a system of pulling yourself from the past into the future, where your middle ground and centre stage is in the present, between
those two colossal things best described by time, past, present and future.
3- Should numbers be used to try and understand the universe? even though they are simply symbols and abstract ideas (Do not exist in the
physical realm), what if the way we used numbers is flawed in nature and that's why we get paradoxes and increasingly complicated
problems?
I believe that no matter the language or logic of numbers - that things so often point to the same conclusions, because these ideas at their basic
basis, came from the raw mind and its fragile interpretation of what's around us. Fragile, but persistent. Numbers and routine play a massive part in
encompassing ourselves and integrating ourselves into the "real world". A child learns from a mistake, event or reaction, not just once, not just
twice, but often exceeding the third time.
As children we had little awareness of all this movement, all that goes on around us. We could have cared less, and from this genuine source of
creativity and this plank held in place strongly, we had and have been able to step from the ship to shore with ease.
4- Is anything really infinite? if it is then aren't we unable to prove it? Or should we just slap the title of infinite to anything we are
unable to prove to be finite?
We can only prove it to be true to what we accept is true within this place, this reality. If you aren't there and a tree falls, does it still make a
sound? How about this one. Is a tree falls on Earth, and you aren't there, did it really fall, and lastly, did it make a sound?
Is there not a set of rocks moving across Mars' surface right now as a little dust devil scuffs about?
First off, show me your "proof" of this clock thing. Second, if they did preform this test
it is definitely not proof of anything but the effects of pressure on the clock, not "proof" of time existing. 
