Question:
can comprehendible matter exist with out time?
joe
2014-08-12 22:28:10 UTC
by comprehendible mater i mean measurable matter, because Motion is time. and with out motion you are left with destinations, that in turn means you "a piece of matter" would be at every single destination, a infinite amount of destinations. but can matter(not mass) in a measurable size exist
Four answers:
oldprof
2014-08-12 23:15:54 UTC
Motion is the change in location over an interval of time; it is not...not...time. Time, the consensus is, is the unfolding of events. In fact Einstein is said to have said something like "Time is nature's way of ensuring everything doesn't happen at once."



So where and when-ever events, all of them, are happening, time is passing. A blue chemical solution turning red is an event, and no motion there. It's more a change of state, characteristic. But the change marks an event; so time marches on.



Without motion, there are no changes in location; so there are not only no destinations (end point) there are also no launch points. There's just location...and, yep, time marching on as states change. So I disagree, we have zero destinations, not an uncountable number of them when there is no motion.



And whether there is a state change or the object moves or both, the rest mass remains that rest mass. It is, as they say in physics, invariant.
anonymous
2014-08-12 23:46:55 UTC
I don't think so:



Space is the set of dimensions in which matter exists.



Time is the dimension in which change occurs;

and in the absence of (elapsed) time, no change of any form can occur.



In the absence of time, there cannot even be any intellectual processes within which to comprehend the existence of matter nor the extent to which matter may extend within the spacial dimensions.



It is perhaps entering the realm of metaphysics to suggest that matter cannot really exist without time in which it can change, together with observation and awareness to bring its existence into reality. This latter metaphysical statement is probably the critical fact of the matter (pun intended).
anonymous
2014-08-13 20:26:54 UTC
No, because things with mass are the only things that can exist within time. Massless particles, such as photons, do not feel the passage of time, as they are always travelling at the same speed as time itself. Since particles with mass are the only things that go slower than the speed of light, they are the only ones that can feel the passage of time.
?
2014-08-12 22:29:46 UTC
i take it you watched lucy recently?


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