“Time is defined to be what our clocks measure.”
August 1st, 2007
I like science, but reading science articles hurts my head. This one threw me for a loop, though it’s quite awesome. Click through to the full article if you have time to blow your own mind:
Newsflash: Time May Not Exist
Efforts to understand time below the Planck scale have led to an exceedingly strange juncture in physics. The problem, in brief, is that time may not exist at the most fundamental level of physical reality. If so, then what is time? And why is it so obviously and tyrannically omnipresent in our own experience? “The meaning of time has become terribly problematic in contemporary physics,” says Simon Saunders, a philosopher of physics at the University of Oxford. “The situation is so uncomfortable that by far the best thing to do is declare oneself an agnostic.”