What would happen, if one day you woke up and time no longer existed?, I’m not talking about stopping time or what we may think is the definition of time. I mean no time, no flow from past to present to future, no entropy, just now. No clocks or calendars, no hours, minutes, seconds, days, years, millennia, aeons just … now.
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In this little thought experiment, let’s assume that time has existed up until you woke up and then ceased to exist anywhere in the universe. Now, everything in your life, all your memories of your past and what is to come in your future, all the events anywhere, from the big bang to the to the decay of the last atom in the universe, is here, now, with no sequential progression from one point to another or flow of time, like a kind of random access universe, compared to one on video tape.
This is not the same as theory of presentism, where only the present is real and both the past and the future are unreal, it has more in common with Eternalism where the past, present and future all exist in their own right but there is no method of progression other than that of the observer selecting what to view but even that idea breaks down without time.
The lack of time is such an alien concept because our lives, in fact everything in the universe since the big bang has been in a continuous state of change from one point to another, a process of cause and effect defined by the laws of physics in an unbroken line that will continue until all the energy in the universe is at the same level and all actively stops and effectively time stops.
If time had not existed at all, nothing could have started, nothing could have progressed from the instant of the big bang, so no stars would have condensed out of the soup of primitive particles, no planets would have formed around the stars and no life would have evolved on the planets and so no you or me or this little thought experiment.
But there is another possibility, in that everything that will ever happen has already happened and in this case, could it be possible to have the universe with me and you in it and just take away time.
So to continue, without time, would your life turn into a dream like state where seemingly random events coalesce and merge from one to another, and like in a dream, would it feel normal to you but to an outsider, in our linear time view of the world, would it be just a mixed up jumble of events.
It would be like taking a film and cutting it up into individual frames and then just throwing the pieces into the air like confetti and looking at each frame randomly, Nothing would make sense, how would you be born, grow up, grow old, die, how would the universe work without time.
With no time, how could you even string thoughts or sentences together. Each thought we have is a progression. A spoken sentence like I’m saying now could not exist as you are hearing it, all the words would appear at once on top of each other.
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