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Why time does not exist
When we ask ourselves why we think time exists, most of us would say: because we see everything changing, always. And so it is: everything in and around us is constantly changing, from beginning until the end.
The question however is: is the reason for this perpetual change to be found outside the changing subject (caused by a phenomena called time) or is all change coming from inside the changing subject itself?
I don’t think that it is hard to see that the latter is correct. That which makes things change (the cycle of life) to a flower, a human being or an animal is set by the characteristics of that particular life’s form and not by an outer cause such as time. What we call ‘time’ is just a method for measuring the ‘perpetual change’.
Because of our need to measure this perpetual change we decided to divide the ‘cyclic changes’ such as seasons and day and night, into months, twenty-four hours, minutes etc. These well-known changes are caused by the ever-moving planetary positions within our solar system and not because there exists such a thing as ‘time’.
So, there are no minutes, but we decided that after counting 60 (seconds) we say that a minute has passed. Based on minutes we calculate hours, days, months, years, centuries etc.
In this way we can count the number of heartbeats per minute, years from birth to death and we even can calculate the number of years from the Big Bang until today.
But we also say: ‘it seems as if time has stood still (in that old village), nothing has changed`.
Actually there is only NOW – in which all that is manifested appeared, changes and disappears.
Because we ourselves are part of this process of change it might be difficult for us to grasp that we ourselves too are just changing in the eternal now. If we are able to look upon ourselves from outside our moving train (witnessing our life passing by), we will probably be able to see that the now always is and that we are passing through this eternal, unmoving, NOW.
As we know, Albert Einstein became famous because of his theory of relativity. In our context it is interesting to understand that Einstein studied the method of calculating time.
He discovered: a moment in time from my position need not necessarily to be the same from your position.
I do not know whether Einstein ever stated that time does not exist at all. As for me, he had better have said so!
It may be wise and good for a better understanding to give some more examples of the methods of measuring we use daily and which are also based on non-existing principles.
Distance: a centimeter, meter, kilometer, mile, etc. do not exist but we have agreed what emptiness we bridge to call it a meter.
Weight: a gram, ounce, kilo, ton, etc. do not exist, but again, we have agreed what heaviness we will call one kilo.
These calculating methods are of course most useful and indispensable in our daily life.
Because we are not aware that time does not exist, we do not feel the need to focus on the now in which our life takes place. However, it would have been much wiser if our ancestors (and we) had done so in the past.
If time didn’t exists
If time didn’t exist, then there will nothing different from present. Actually time doesn’t exist even today and still the world exists.
Life processes are only waves having a rhythm and force. The force gets about change in a given object that begins in definite state and ends in some other. This makes any state finite and consecutive. The sequence makes a sense of elapsing "time". Time as an apparent flow varies from individual to another in its pace and the pace also varies from one experience to another for an individual. Time as shown by a 24 hours what happens? The sphere wouldn't have been any diverse with a 25 hours clock.
Our body has dissimilar change processes going on at dissimilar paces of their own. By developing habits we translate the natural rhythmic cycles into time cycles. So, change is essential, time is only its measure.
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