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Help me settle a debate. Is time an invention or a discovery? No using GPTs.

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Mason Hall pfp

Time is a discovery, since it seems to be a universal law of physics. The ways we measure time are inventions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_of_time

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moreReese pfp

Invention. Like time zones conception of time. Greenwich Mean Time was invented to coordinate ship activity and later adopted by the railways as a coordination mechanism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time

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Hmm invention. Just a way to measure changes happening around us. But I’m sure there are more advanced physics type things that are over my head that would determine time a discovery.

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notdevin pfp

Discovery. According to loop quantum gravity theory, it’s the resulting effect of interactions between quanta particles. The effect is expressed as a vibration. We discovered that effect exists. We invented the linear temporal stream we refer to as time when measuring human interactions

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Peter Ferguson pfp

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Discovery for me In General Relativity it is put on the same fundamental level as space (so is space discovered or invented?) In the Quantum realm it comes down to interpretation but it is usually a parameter associated with making a measurement, so the question is are equation parameters invented?

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Jonny Mack pfp

"time" is a means by which to describe changes within a system. it's an invention. our perception of "the arrow of time" is an emergent property of human consciousness that doesn't actually map to physical reality

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welter pfp

time is subjective, there is no past or future, just the "now," so i don't think time existed until humans decided to measured it

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adrienne pfp

you just broke my brain

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Branksy Pop pfp

Since reality is not local, time is both: It is a discovery as a real property in the (holographic) projection we live in. But ultimately an invention in the "real" reality where it doesn't exist.

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tyler ↑ pfp

Time is a discovery. The ways in which we’ve observed/measured time are inventions. Time itself is independent of the ways we understand it.

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Sahil 🥝 pfp

Depends on your definition of time really. The universal standard unidirectional concept most of us operate by is an invention. Time as the relative rate of change, part of spacetime, would be a discovery. No GPTs. All me, channeling some Einstein.

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Daniel Keith pfp

I read a book when I was about 15 related to the theory of relativity. Best I can remember, there are four arrows of time - entropy, gravity, electromagnetism, and...something. How to measure time has certainly been invented, but the behavior of particles, gravity, light - these are scientific discoveries.

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