“time is not a dimension, but merely the way our brains deal with the fact that everything in the universe is in constant motion.”
I admit I don’t know a lot about this, but hasn’t it be experimentally proven that time is a dimension with atomic clocks in space?
You know, time for the astronaut traveling at near the speed of light literally slows down.
The faster you move, the slower pace of time. So, time back on earth is 20 years, but time in the near light speed space ship is only five years.
Also, your post is confusing to me. First you say that time is a function of consciousness, merely the way that our brains work, then you say that the past is gone and the future has not yet occurred.
But, then you say that it isn’t linked to our brain, but is a physical reality.
So, which is it?
Here is an interesting show about time travel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiusH2-6OaM
“I admit I don’t know a lot about this, but hasn’t it be experimentally proven that time is a dimension with atomic clocks in space?”
I don’t claim to be an expert either, but how would one prove that time is a dimension with atomic clocks in space?
“You know, time for the astronaut traveling at near the speed of light literally slows down.”
Theoretically. It has yet to be observed.
“First you say that time is a function of consciousness, merely the way that our brains work,”
Don’t recall putting it that way.
“then you say that the past is gone and the future has not yet occurred. But, then you say that it isn’t linked to our brain, but is a physical reality.”
I don’t recognize anything I said in that.
I said that time is our way of dealing with the fact that everything in the universe is constantly in motion. We arbitrarily select objects and measure the passage of “time” in terms of their motion.
Since everything is in motion, everything has changed position and/or state since any point in the past, and there isn’t any way of getting everything in the universe back to its previous positions.
Everything will continue to move, but there is no sense in which “the future” exists now, so you can’t go there.
Ain’t no “which is it.” Just us trying to understand how things work.