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'Is There Really Time?' What is Time? What is space. What is motion?'
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The question of whether or not anything or consideration really exists is an endemically popular tonic. ('Maybe we're a hallucination. Maybe everything is nothing'.)
A lot of seriously proffered equivocation occurs in glib denouncements of the existence of anything, particularly with regard to whatever spatial issue of 'truth': space and/or time.
As though Plato was not a student of Socrates, and that each and both of them did not long ago put to rest, the rasberry dispirited vanity of such allegedly 'unanswerable questions & unresolvable riddles'.
The Western Civilization marked discarding of 'reality' has long been a (an alleged Eastern Civilization inspired) ploy for those who avert the responsibility of recognizing and acknowledging it.
Euclidiean and Pythagorean geometry and pi r as well as E= MC squared would and do exist in fact, with or without anthropomorphic existence or realization. The physical universe is as indifferent to humanity as the mathematics and philosophy that irrevocably and eternally prove 'truth', whether or not idle individuals deign to acknowledge such realities - such eternal trutns - or not...
THE (Stubborn) MYTHOLOGY OF ARBITRARY ('Who knows?') SPACE & TIME:
The present standard of measurement for space is said to have been determined by a King who extended his arm and hand and pronounced that the distance between the tip of his nose to the end of his index finger would henceforth be the definitional standard, now called a 'yard'.
Divisible into three feet. Each foot divisible into 12 inches, each inch divisible into innumerable sub-divisions... (Re: 'Xeno's Paradox')
This (unarguably) capricious determination of the value of space, unfortunately brought about a misunderstanding that the existence and/or value of
time is likewise arbitrary (a 'human invention') - just as the - above described - value of space was determined by arbitrary means.
(People did not invent motion, space or time. Words for those conditions, yes, but, not the existential conditions themselves.)
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Whereas, space - what we have only recently learned to be inseparable from time (Yes. Minkowski was right - contrary to a popular -
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I disagree
space is the ROOM , allowance , for an object to exist , time has NO bearing on this ROOM allowance, or SPACE.
for the essence of Time is movement. and the essence of this movement is the actions and/or interactions between objects