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

what would our lives be like, if time didnt exist? would everything happen at the same moment, would be born, do all the stuff we do then die, straight away?

I'll get back to you yesterday.

The nature of time has puzzled and fascinated me ever since I was quite a small child.

I would stand and think...at this precise moment I am doing...whatever it was. But what does that mean? What is this precise moment?

I haven't got any nearer to the answer after nearly 50 years but I still think exactly the same thoughts from time to time - whatever that is!

Sad ain't it!

In the words of The Great One * "Time is an illusion, lunch-time doubly so"


* That's DNA, not Nighthoover, btw. Who sucks.

You'd never be late and lie-ins wouldn't exist

Relativity proves that time and space are inherently linked if time ceased to exist so would space and hence us.

I wouldn't have to be 29a next birthday.

if time didn't exist, then I assume we would have no perception of time, so no lie-ins and no life at all perhaps.

Would there be no entropy as well?

Remember time is nature's way of keeping everything happening all at once!

If the fourth dimension didn't exist, the fifth would move in to take its place, and it would be indistinguishable. Apart from that, so much of the universe depends on time to explain how it works that we can't even comprehend a universe without it.

But doesn't time=entropy? And if we had no entropy there would be no energy? Or energy in some suspended state? And how could there be measurable existance without a beginning? And which one of the Spice Girls was gay?

Time doesn't exist. It's a human abstraction invented to help us sort out event sequences and intervals. It has no existence outside the human mind. If it didn't exist now, we'd just make it up.

That's like saying dimensions don't exist because *length* is just a word made up to describe something.

Can you touch length?

I often let attractive international students touch *my* length.

It can be perceived, yes. It isn't something like an emotion which is subjective. I feel the passage of time, can even roughly smell the length of a bananna!

Interesting juxtaposition of simu-posts!

list of chat-up lines:

"touch my length"
"smell my banana"

Or, alternately....

"smell my length"
and
"touch my banana"

I've often thought that there could be people living outside of time who just freeze it for as long as they needed.

no-one would ever notice.

like in that tv show where the girl put her fingers together if someone spilled a drink, and so on.