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Is time a subjective, purely ideal notion transcendental or is it rather part of the mind-independent, physical furniture of the universe?

Time is absolutely central in our inner experience, but at least since the foundation of modern physics, it also plays an important role in the description of the outer world. To the extent that there is a physical and a mental time, one can safely surmise that the problem of trying to establish whether and how they are related is one of the most fundamental issues in the philosophy of time. Are physical and mental time in conflict, or we can regard the former as some sort of appropriate extension to the outer world of the main features of the latter? Since the space and time of our experience look as though they are devoid of any perceivable qualities in the ordinary sense, it would seem legitimate to conclude that they are also devoid of any causal power. Given that the properties of objects or events can be identified with their causal powers, time has no causal power because it appear to have no properties. However, if time and space are causally inert, why can’t we regard them as mere nothing, in the same sense in which empty space was, for the ancient atomists, the only instance of the parmenideian notion of “nothingness”? Time and space cannot exist in the same sense in which objects and event exist is clear from the simple remark that it does not make sense to say that spacetime is in spacetime. If localizability in spacetime is the rule by which we establish the existence of something, we cannot apply the rule to spacetime itself, for reasons that are even stronger than those that are usually presupposed by the claim that the standard meter in Paris is not one meter long. New research done by Gödel, Gödel’s claim according to which the time of our experience cannot be accommodated by Einstein’s theory of relativity becomes then of paramount importance, since assumes a whole new dimension in the theory of knowledge such a claim becomes in fact a suggestive piece of evidence that Einstein’s theory of relativity helped us to peek behind the veil of Maya of phenomena, and that such an overcoming of the bounds of our senses are indeed possible! look at the way we speak about time. As the analytic philosophy of time of our century has made abundantly clear, there are in fact two ways of distinguishing events in time, the tenseless way of “earlier and later than”, giving us the changeless order of succession, and the tensed way of past, present and future, giving us transition and passage. Suppose for an instant that time travel is possible and we could travel back in time. Quantum theory says that you would end up a different universe. So that there is no problem with free will what ever you do in the past will not affect the present because you are in a different universe. You know that there has to be multiple universes because if you were to pocket a ball in a game of pool and then travels back in time and travel back to the pack we know that there must be something stopping from hitting the pack because we know that it did not hit the pack this disproving the grandfather paradox (saying if you went back in time and killed you grandfather you would not exist to kill your grandfather). So the ball must travel into a different universe. The theory implies that there are infinite universes. This implies that time travel would just be hoping from one universe to another.

The theory of relativity has opened up a whole new world for possibilities and research. Through the answering of Einstein’s theory a hole knew a science has opened up. Many grate bound in are understanding of the universe in which we live in. this theory has played its part in large ways in small to so many aspects of are life from GPS to the possibility of time travel. one day soon time travel will know longer be science fiction it will be science fact. It will no longer be in movies but in a school books. This signal theory is the greatest step man kind has ever taking to get to the answer at the core of everything what is this?

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