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Originally Posted by SinJin I'm not sure if this goes along with what subversion was saying, but I thought the illusion of time, the passing of events, was created from the one-way flow of entropy. Of course disorder and motion are connected, and so motion is connected with the flow of time. But I don't see how time is a seperate dimension, except when referencing it in relation to directions. |
That, for me, is another big misunderstanding of what the concept of time is. The statement that the direction of time is determined by the entropy increasing impplies that time is a dimension. If time is a dimension, it would have two possible directions (which is the very first and most impotant property of dimensions). We are used to say "time goes so fast" or "time passes very fast" or similar things, in our day-to-day talking..... Well this is scientifically wrong. Time is a diemension, it doesn't "move" in any of it's two directions, because it IS the collection of it's two directions. Objects in time do go in directions of time. So I move in time. I travell in time. And you, and him and the other. Do we say that "3d moves so forward!"? or "2d moves so high"??? NO. We don't. Because dimensions don't advance. The objects in them advance in directions.
I hope this explenation helped you and whoever reads it to understand that time doesn't have a direction and thus, that nothing determines it's direction (nor entropy or whatever).