Time May Not Exist at All, According to Physics

https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | April 25, 2022 | SAM BARON

[Red Badger]

When you are young, Time is slow as Christmas.
When you are old, Time is fast as The Grim Reaper..................

[GingisK]

I think you see the problem very clearly. We are prisoners in time.

[Bob434]

I didn’t mean to,imply that our souls always were and always will be. They had a beginning (i thunk- i dont beleive our souls always existed, but do beleive they always will exist once they are created- if thismis so, and i firmly beleive it to be so, we will continue on knowing once our bodies turn to dust again).

Like,the other fella said, thinking too deeply about eternity can drive a man mad (i had an NDE where i “went” the other way, to hell- i dontmbeleive my soul left my body, or,thatni actually,passed,over, and i think it was just caused by the high fever as i was dying causing brain synapses to misfire, causing hallucinations, but the experience left me shaken- i. It i was “given a test” where i had to count sounds- I lost count, and began to weep, and then a voicd said, dont worry you don’t exist, and i slipped,into a,blackness where nothing existed, BUT i could sense that i was somehow a lart,of,the nothingness, and it was frightening- foating around with no purpose or direction or meaning, and unconscious of things like time, cold/hot, aging, feelings, etc, but somehow still conscious of it all- it’s hard to explain really (now,you see why i doubt it was an actual passing over- it was totally unbiblical. I,guess the point is that it really messed with my mind for many years, causing me to wonder about eternity, and what it might be for a soul, and it caused me to thunk about time/eternity. If I had been “conscious of” a time before I was born whenmthe experience happend to me, wow! That would have been wicked freaky- I’m glad wasn’t really- it was a bad enougn trip as it was).

We are gonna get new incorruptible bodies some day, but till then we will just be souls awaiting that day, but waiting in the presence of God which is a-ok,with me

[Bob434]

Eternity is the Non Existence of time.

A. W. Tower said “Time marks the beginning of created existence, “

But I wonder, wouldn’t even thinking about creating something be considered a part of “time”? (Ie, there was a time before creation that the thought came to be that soemthing shoukd be created)? Or would,one say that a timeless God always had the thought of creation in his mind for eternity? Acts 15:18 tells us “Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world (from eternity).” his decrees were from eternity, before anything was ever created, infact, his decrees always were in existence- he always knew the end even before the beginning began. God doesn’t learn as he goes, for he knows all,things and zlways has.

If so, what prompted him to “wait so long” to begin the creation? And was it really a situation where he “waited” if time doesn’t exist? is it always “now” in an eternal existence? is there a “sequence of events” if time doesnt exist? (a sequence of events can only really be meausred by th3 passing of time i think? ie, something happens “first”, then another thing happens “second”, after the first thing happened, marking a chsnge in time, and so on and so forth)

All that is finite and created have a cause, and only an eternal agent can cause the finite to exist, to have a beginning. That eternal cause can grant eternal life to the created finite being if it so chooses, and thbakfully,God did.

[Lazamataz]

That was a cool response. Thanks.

[Louis Foxwell]

Yes. The uncaused cause is not available in nature. An event is not a time. A sequence of events are delineated by the observer as occurring according to a structure of time. It is how we distinguish one thing from another.
What is the relationship between consciousness and time? Conscious is in the moment. It is the eternal now. We cannot be conscious of the past or of the future, only of the now. In consciousness there is no time, only now.