h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

WE PERCIEVE TIME.

without it we would still be an active part of the universe going about our lives, we just wouldn,t be aware of it.

Think of it as a movie.

Without a perception of time, it would be started and finished witout us noticing anything. with it, we remember each moment.

Our lives and the universe are exactly this. It is all predetermined- predestination i.e control is an illusion.

To answer the question, there is something because we percieve time, there is not nothing because we percieve time. Moment by moment we percieve time.

to put it simpler, our brain operates in more than one time frame.
Some ahead of our universe's time, some behind, and our conscience is the part of our brain in temporal sync with this universe.

Question answered.

Any more unsolvable puzzles you want me to solve?

Many thanks Matmilne

So you think that things exist only because we percieve time. if this is true then that means that in any given indivisible moment of time nothing exists(because things can only exist if time passes acording to your proposition), and at the next indivisible moment nothing exists and so forth and so forth. but when you sum up these time frames with nothing in them you get something that is the universe that exists. im not quite sure how that works maybe you could elaborate furthur.

furhtermore what method do you use to percieve time? i don't remember that being one of the five senses. The only method of percieving time that i can think of is the registration of sensory information at one moment telling us that something is different than it was at anothor moment of time (ex. the sun is in a different position or the hands of a clock have moved). thus bringing the thought that things exist in indivisible moments of time and that time is our registering changes of things in those indivisible moments

Thus this contradiction leads us to believe that things do not exist because of time, but time exists because of things. where the things came from is the question at hand which, sorowfully, i am not prepared to answer