Is time Really real?
The Facts
What is time-one of the life long questions we ask every day... But is time really real? Well, that depends on who you are asking. Some philosophers like Aristotle will say that time is relational... In other words, time is the measure of change. Imagen if EVERY THING comes to a HALT, everything frozen. Will there still be time? Sir Isaac Newton would say yes, he claimed that time will still occur regardless if there are no events occurring. He views time as absolute which in other words Isaac Newton would say that someone on the North Pole would still experience time the same if someone lived on a whole different planet (assuming if that person could survive living on a different planet)! However there is a BIG issue here thanks to Einstein's theory of relativity - which states that not everyone experiences events in time the same way. For example, imagine you're at home, outside you see 2 flashes of lightning striking the ground at the same moment to you, these events happen simultaneously but to someone traveling close to the speed of light relatives to the ground may see one lighting flash appear to happen before the second. In other words, an event in your present is in someone else's future. Well, this breaks the rule of presenteeism which states that only the present moment is real and the past and future are not, so the lightning flashes were real but not real... Which clearly makes no sense. However, the block universe theory states that time is the fourth dimension and that the past present and future are all equally real. But the present is just subjective, however, there are problems with this theory and many other tried to describe time and weather or not if it's just in our minds... However as of right now we have no answer.
Fact Breakdown
What do they say about time?
Aristotle-Philosopher
Aristotle says that time is relational... In other words, time is the measure of change
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Sir Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton says that time is absolute... In other words time will still occur regardless if there are no events occurring
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Plot twist
Albert Einstein
Einstein's theory of relativity states that not everyone experiences events in time the same way/time. For example, imagine you're at home, outside you see 2 flashes of lightning striking the ground at the same moment to you, these events happen simultaneously but to someone traveling close to the speed of light relatives to the ground may see one lighting flash appear to happen before the second. In other words, an event in your present is in someone else's future. Well, this breaks the rule of presenteeism, which states that only the present moment is real and the past and future are not, so the lightning flashes were real but not real... Which clearly makes no sense.
The Block Universe Theory
The Block universe theory states that time is the fourth dimension and that the past present and future are all equally real. But the present is just subjective
