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What is time?

A philosophical exploration into the known unkno

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Introduce yourself!

Guess which statement is true about the person today.

We can get to know each other and begin to think abouttime! We change through time. The past self for whichthose two statements were true… does this person stillexist?

Variation of truths and " lie#

All three statements are true

about yourself$ howe%er are

no longer true$ only " is still

true.

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&uestions

'or time to exist$ does time re(uiree%ents?

)o you think that only things inthe present exist$ or do you thinkthings in the past and future also

exist?

)o things in past$ present$ and future exist in di*erent

ways? +an we interact with the past$ present$ and

future? Are these interactions the same?

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 ,he -hape of ,ime

 ,ime is a line. A is thepresent. efore A is

the past$ after A isthe future.

But time might notbe a line. Howwould the worldwork, if time took

on these other

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uddhism /0122 + 3 now4

5,he conse(uence preexists in the cause$ the future in tpresent6 We can$ by examining the present$ predict witcertainty what will happen in the future$ for the future ishidden present. 'or this reason temporality becomes a millusion.# /"74 )a%id 8. 9alupahana

3,ime doesn:t actually exist. ;ur faulty mental faculties cexperience of time. In reality e%erything$ past present fuat once.

3ecause e%erything exists at once$ we can dig through tto

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uddhism /continued4,ime assumes the position of >aara$ the personi

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What would it be like to ha%eno self?

Co duality 33 what would it belike to not see yourself

separate from the 5other:?

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D.) ;uspensky /"7E73"F1E4

ussian mathematician who contributed topsychology$ religion$ and philosophy

 ,ime is actually a spatial dimension$ but we cannotsee it as space

Why? Chickens. eings with more complicated

brains than ours might see us like chickens.

What do you think it means for time is be actuallyspace?

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We know the world consists of solids$ but we see and tosurfaces. We ne%er see and touch a solid. ,he solid33thisconcept $ composed of a series of perceptions$ the result reasoning and experience.#

/Tertium Org

3We know sobecause we can memories of eacobect and piecetogether into a m

understanding o

;uspensky /continued4

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;uspensky /continued4

3;ther animals might not ha%e this ability of memory. A cat sworld in 3). A slug sees the world in "3).

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How would walking around a disk appear to a

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;uspensky /continued4

Animals sense the third dimension as something transiwe sense time# /Tertium Organum "2H4

We experience H3dimensional space but are unable to pitogether in a way to see that time is a spatial dimension

What does it mean if time is a spatial dimension?>oments of di*erent epochs$ di%ided by great inter%alsexist simultaneously$ and may touch one another#

/Tertium Organum 14 

)oes this sound like

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Albert instein /"7EF3"F4

 ,heory of General elati%ityB ,ime is a spatial dimension J Gwarped space3time

What does this mean? If you li%e in

house on the

you will age

your neighbo

about "2 nan

one year$L Ig

(uantum phy

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&uantum >echanics /0"F22 3 now4

&uantum theory has been formulated based on asymmetric

that reKect the fact that we can know the past and can only future. But the concept of probability is independent ofrom a physics perspecti%e it makes sense to try to formtheory in fundamentally symmetric terms#

3;gnyan ;reshko%$ (uantum phy

)o you think only past e%ents cafuture e%ents?

=ow would you think of your lifeif the future can cause the presepast?

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Implications

If time is actually space6and future e%ents causewhat is happening now6

)oes it mean e%erything

had already happened?

)o we ha%e free will?

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'urther )iscussion

pistemologyB the study of knowledgeM is it possible

to know anything for sure?

;uspensky$ instein$ and the uddha were humansafter all.

&uantum mechanics is based on theories$ made by

humans$ and experimental results$ obser%ed byhumans.

=umans are Kawed.

If we cannot believe in anything,

what should we do?

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If you belie%e time is a spatial dimen

Why is there so much su*ering and inustice inherent to the

+an God

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