I wonder..

jay-me

I wonder what it would be like if the concept of time didn't exist.. That is all..

old_aussie

There'd be no beer o'clock

SadieSue

... dude!!.. are snakes just tails with faces?

PizzamanIRL

Don't hurt my brain. Its too late at night to be thinking about situations like that.

The Backwards Man

There would be no silly threads at three in the morning.

jay-me

The Backwards Man wrote: »

There would be no silly threads at three in the morning.

Or snotty replies..

lkionm

At least we know who is smoking the wacky tobaccy tonight

The Backwards Man

jay-me wrote: »

Or snotty replies..

Touché

Rabies

jay-me wrote: »

I wonder what it would be like if the concept of time didn't exist.. That is all..

There ya go.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13452711

Now go finish whatever you're smoking

jay-me

For one thing, the development of a person, on an individual level would be more aligned to their own personal growth rather than accepted norms. That seems somewhat interesting I suppose.

zenno

jay-me wrote: »

I wonder what it would be like if the concept of time didn't exist.. That is all..

Do you mean Man-Made time ?

lkionm

jay-me wrote: »

Or snotty replies..

Or cranky ops

XxXNIMRODXxX

The world would be so care-free..well, less hectic anyways I think! I'd love to live back in like the stone age..

lkionm

jay-me wrote: »

For one thing, the development of a person, on an individual level would be more aligned to their own personal growth rather than accepted norms. That seems somewhat interesting I suppose.

Go have a pint of water and go to sleep will ya

jay-me

Rabies wrote: »

There ya go.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13452711

Now go finish whatever you're smoking

Perhaps I wasn't clear in the OP but I don't mean the lack of the concept in relation to an indigenous tribe, but to humanity as a whole.. So unless it is possible that all the advances in the world are due to the concept of time this isn't relevant to what I am talking about. Also I am not smoking anything.. I was just thinking.

jay-me

lkionm wrote: »

Go have a pint of water and go to sleep will ya

I'd love to but I am in work. No drink, no drugs etc etc so that can be put to bed in my place :pac:

stefan idiot jones

So when was our Lord Jesus born ?

About so far ago ?

Is 'ago' a word now ?

The Backwards Man

jay-me wrote: »

I'd love to but I am in work. No drink, no drugs etc etc so that can be put to bed in my place :pac:

If there was no concept of time you'd be stuck in work for ever and ever and ever and ever and ever.

Or maybe not at all.

jay-me

The Backwards Man wrote: »

If there was no concept of time you'd be stuck in work for ever and ever and ever and ever and ever.

Or maybe not at all.

Or perhaps only as long as is necessary..

zenno

The rat-race time is just that, a race to get to the end of your life fast/hard.

Relax and see the sun rise and see it set as it always has, but when you add in a time-set as to awake and slave-away till death then you will never feel/see natural time.

Man-made Time was partly made explicitly to control the masses and have them believe their lives would be better in a controlled environment and work work work to this man-made time.

It's 3:17am... means nothing to me, fake time.





PS: yes, some people call me crazy

Peregrine

jay-me wrote: »

I wonder what it would be like if the concept of time didn't exist.. That is all..

It won't be possible for it to not exist. It will always exist, you're talking about a world where there is no past or future.

If there is a flow of events, there will be time.

It's not a concept we ingeniously devised after millions of years, it's the fourth dimension in which physical change is measured in. It was there from one unit past the beginning. Measurement of time on the other hand is something we invented.

Imagine if you asked what if distance didn't exist?

zenno

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

It won't be possible for it to not exist. It will always exist, you're talking about a world where there is no past or future.

If there is a flow of events, there will be time.

It's not a concept we ingeniously devised after millions of years, it's the fourth dimension in which physical change is measured in. It was there from one unit past the beginning. Measurement of time on the other hand is something we invented.

Imagine if you asked what if distance didn't exist?

What ? Like this... Can we really understand the fourth dimension ?..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnURElCzGc0

jay-me

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

It won't be possible for it to not exist. It will always exist, you're talking about a world where there is no past or future.

If there is a flow of events, there will be time.

It's not a concept we ingeniously devised after millions of years, it's the fourth dimension in which physical change is measured in. It was there from one unit past the beginning. Measurement of time on the other hand is something we invented.

Imagine if you asked what if distance didn't exist?

I'm talking about the concept of time, not the possibility of there being one!

jimgoose

You need "Time" in order to prevent all events from occurring together simultaneously. Or worse again, whenever they liked - whatever "whenever" would mean under such a setup. That would be a colossal pain in the arse - things are confusing enough as it is.

biko

Woa dude, what if the galaxies are really atoms?!

crockholm

biko wrote: »

Woa dude, what if the galaxies are really atoms?!

aww maaan!!! There are literally billions of galaxies inside me. *stares at hands for 20 minutes*

Zen65

jay-me wrote: »

I'm talking about the concept of time, not the possibility of there being one!

The concept of time is simply is our way of understanding it. Are you asking "what if we did not understand time?"

Or do you mean "what if we did not care about time?" That's a very different question. You could probably get a sense of what that would be like by travelling to Jamaica!!

In either case, we would very quickly have to invent an understanding of time for our world to function. If we had not developed that concept thousands of years ago we would not have been able to make the technological advances that we have made, since very many of the physical concepts we have created (speed, momentum, force, power, acceleration, flux, etc.) depend on time as a variable.

Z

--LOS--

Time doesn't really exist anyway, it's not a tangible thing, it's an abstraction.

flutterflye

I'm not really understanding you. Just as others have said - It does exist, it has existed since the big bang at least, and will continue indefinitely.
Animals and plants are aware of it even, well not in the sense that we are obviously, but they will hunt or hibernate etc... depending on time of day or time of year.
The only real way that your question makes any sense, is in a way that has fcuked with my head a few times too - before the big bang, before any evidence of anything existing - What was there? Was there a 'before'?

Peregrine

jay-me wrote: »

I'm talking about the concept of time, not the possibility of there being one!

There was always a concept of time

It's the difference between basic understanding between something you did and not doing the same thing at the moment. The first thing to move or even observe moment must have understood the concept of time.

Once a flow of events happened around us, the concept of 'time' or 'change in space' started. We would be aware of the past and the present, maybe the concept of the future came later.