Navy10E writes:
The obvious shortcoming in this arguement...
Just to nitpick, it's not an argument. It's an analogy. It's not intended to be perfect, but simply to allude to a better understanding.
Navy10E writes:
(we have never seen time go backwards)
Time doesn't "go" anywhere. Time is a measure of our experience of things. It exists in our minds.
Navy10E writes:
In time, a minute passes in a minute's time, and thats the way it's always been observed.
Actually, it's been shown that space-time intervals expand and contract depending on relative velocity. In principle, one person's minute can be another person's week or month.
Navy10E writes:
...no one has been able to operate outside of time...
It is doubtful that the phrases "within time" or "outside of time" are at all meaningful when talking about actual physical reality. Time is not an object, and as such to place it as the object of a prepositional phrase in these cases can be metaphorical at best, and deceptive at worst.
The point is, then, that just as we've never known anyone to be "outside of time," we've never really known anyone to be "within time" either.
Navy10E writes:
Perhaps you could point on an experiment that was able to change time.
You should read up on Einstein's
Twins Paradox. At relativistic velocity differentials, time passes at significantly different rates for different people.
Navy10E writes:
If it is then it would need a cause like every other historical event.
First you should demonstrate that all historical events have causes. It seems from our recent (actually becoming not-so-recent) quantum observations that your assertion is false.
Navy10E writes:
That is not merely an assumption, that just makes sense.
Truthfully, common sense has proven to be a very poor judge of the workings of reality.
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