Post by chillstar on Oct 16, 2023 23:19:12 GMT
Does time exist, or is it something that we made up?
In 1971 over forty years ago, physicist Joseph C. Hafele and astronomer Richard E. Keating bought tickets for themselves as well as four highly precise Hewlett-Packard atomic clocks to take two commercial airplane trips around the world, one heading east and one heading west. Their mission? Test Einstein's theory.
After the trips, they compared the times on the atomic clocks in the airplanes with the time of atomic clocks at the United States Naval Observatory. If relativity was correct, the clocks heading east should have been behind those on the ground, while the ones traveling west should have been ahead.
And that's what Hafele and Keating found! From: www.realclearscience.com
An indication that time is actual.
Now as some of us have observed, some people are always late for a meeting, a job, a school or some other designated location. That perhaps may, or not, be an indication that time is something that we made up. It does not really exist.
Time for us long ago was gradually introduced into our society and became an integral part of our daily lives. We depend on it for so many things as we know and understand. Therefore, reaching a determination of its [time] existence could be an essential decision to make--Is time real or not?
In 1971 over forty years ago, physicist Joseph C. Hafele and astronomer Richard E. Keating bought tickets for themselves as well as four highly precise Hewlett-Packard atomic clocks to take two commercial airplane trips around the world, one heading east and one heading west. Their mission? Test Einstein's theory.
After the trips, they compared the times on the atomic clocks in the airplanes with the time of atomic clocks at the United States Naval Observatory. If relativity was correct, the clocks heading east should have been behind those on the ground, while the ones traveling west should have been ahead.
And that's what Hafele and Keating found! From: www.realclearscience.com
An indication that time is actual.
Now as some of us have observed, some people are always late for a meeting, a job, a school or some other designated location. That perhaps may, or not, be an indication that time is something that we made up. It does not really exist.
Time for us long ago was gradually introduced into our society and became an integral part of our daily lives. We depend on it for so many things as we know and understand. Therefore, reaching a determination of its [time] existence could be an essential decision to make--Is time real or not?
