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Does time really exist?

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Jim Butler
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User of The Question  · 15 дек 2016

I once had the existence of time conclusively disproved to me by that renowned temporal physicist, Ol’ Dirty Bastard of the Wu-Tang Clan. Back in the ’90s I was interviewing him for The Face magazine in Los Angeles. Apropos of nothing, and responding to a question only he had heard, he pointed to the clock on the wall of the studio.

“See that clock?” he said. “24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, 60 seconds in a minute. 2+6 = 6, 6+0 = 6, and 6+0 = 6. That’s 666, which is the Devil. And the Devil is an illusion. So that means time is an illusion too.” Poor Dirty, the world is a poorer place without him. 

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Research Fellow at the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health...  · 15 дек 2016
That’s the big question. This is what physicists are arguing about. Some physicists, like Einstein actually, say time is an illusion. And then there is the English physicist Julian Barbour who says there is no passage of time, there are just snapshots of time – moments of time.  But others – Lee Smolin for example – want to bring time back into physics. That’s because... Читать далее