Can something exist without time-space?

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In summary, the conversation discusses the concept of a world without time, space, and matter and whether something can exist in this world. The idea of a creator who exists outside of these dimensions is also mentioned. The conversation then delves into the question of whether a being in this world would be aware of its own existence and how it would obtain knowledge without any senses. The participants also discuss the concept of hunger and how it relates to existence. The conversation ends with one person finding their answer in the atomic structure and apologizing for any mistakes in their writing.
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This question was bothering me for long time, but i couldn't find the answer to this question.
Try to imagine that there is another world without time, space and matter. World that the human barin can't fully imagine. Can SOMETHING (no matter what) exist in this world? An entity of any kind? An other version of matter which doesn't need space to exist?
 
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Well if you believe in a creator he would exist outside space/time and matter. As to what it would be like.. better yet, as to why you can not immagine it. Can you immagine a tree? Good, now can you immagine a fusonhousien (a made up word)? of course you can't because you don't know what it is. Humans have only been exposed to space/time/matter so to immagine something that is not is outside our experience.
 
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Wizardsblade said:
Well if you believe in a creator he would exist outside space/time and matter. As to what it would be like.. better yet, as to why you can not immagine it. Can you immagine a tree? Good, now can you immagine a fusonhousien (a made up word)? of course you can't because you don't know what it is. Humans have only been exposed to space/time/matter so to immagine something that is not is outside our experience.

Its like the Alien example. Can you imagine an alien which is created from something we don't know?
Thats why I'm searching the answer in phylosophy.. For example.
If there were only this world without space and matter but still there was something, an entity which existed in that world. There can be nothign else in this world accept this "something", therefore its perfect, it has everything that can ever exist. To keep existing you need to do something. To import or export information or actions.

The baby example: there is a baby, borned without the 5 senses, therefore it doesn't know the world exist, in other words, world doesn't exist to this baby. So it can't receive any information from outside created by others. How can the baby know about his own existence? By doing those actions, importing info or exporting info, including thinking. But how can it think if it doesn't know any terms, it knows nothing about the world and its own environment, it knows nothign about itself, the knowlage is obsolutely 0. Therefore the baby can't think either, so it doesn't know about his own existence, so he doesn't exist in his own world (world created by the information we get, we get the light into our eyes, see it as a tree and use the picture in our mind, in our private world), If it doesn't exist in his own world - It doesn't exist at all, only we can see the body of that baby.

Therefore, to exist the entity needs to import or export something to know about its own existence and exist (because there is nothign else because of this entity, its private world is the whole world, therefore if it doesn't exist in its own world, it doesn't exist at all). And because it exist, its doign something. Whats that something? Importing? No. Why? because there is nothign to import, it has everything that can exist in this world.
So can it export? Yes, but to who? To what? Therefore it creates another entity, the opposite, the unperfect entity so it can give the other one it created that something its created of (lets call it "or"). When the unperfect entity gets the "or" its being filled with somethign perfect, with more of it, therefore it gets satisfaction.

The creation of that entity was in order to give it enjoyment.

Thats my theory, based on the Wisdom of Kabbalah.

BTW, i found my answer in the atomic structure, tnx anyway.
and, I'm sorry if i had some mistakes in my writing, its 2:12am lol
 
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I would tend to think that a baby would still feel hungery and, assuming its mother still feeds it regulary, it will inport a feeling of satifaction It will not know why it was hungery and now its not but it would regonize this change. The baby maybe be able to understand that it is not the baby that brings about this change in hunger to satifaction. Therefore it would be able to assume there are things outside of its senses.
But either way a baby would feel hunger which according to your argument make the baby know it exist. Also this would allow for rudementay thought. hungery..not hungery.
 
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Hunger is the wish to receive something tasty, you don't want to eat just because your stomach hurts or you want to survive. You eat because its tasty. Therefore the baby won't feel hunger, it will feel pain in his stomach and no pain.
Mother won't be able to feed the baby, baby can't feel anything and doesn't know when to swallow.

There is another option to keep it alive, intravenous infusion. But this will put the food inside his blood directly, therefore it may not feel pain at all and may not know what pain is? Does it feel any pain either?


Anyway, eating is receiving information from outside. Without receiving any information and exporting it, the creature doesn't exist in his own world - for himself. We can see its body laying, but we see the body in our mind, in his mind and consciousness, he doesn't exist.
 
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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hunger

Hunger and tasty have nothing to to with eathother. If your hungery enough you eat things that are very untasty.

But with the idea of pain and no pain, there is a third option for feeding. The baby can be feed through a tube. This can be done regulary, not conteniously, thus allowing for the possibility for pain and no pain.

And what about bordem? Could this not be expirenced?
 
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avpx said:
BTW, i found my answer in the atomic structure, tnx anyway.
and, I'm sorry if i had some mistakes in my writing, its 2:12am lol

You found what in the "atomic structure"? Certainly not the answer to your question because "atomic structure" is well-known only because we can solve and describe it using its Hamiltonian. And I'm sure you know what are contained in that Hamiltonian, don't you, since you found the "answer"? Try writing it down without using any "time and space" if you can.

Zz.
 
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avpx said:
This question was bothering me for long time, but i couldn't find the answer to this question.
Try to imagine that there is another world without time, space and matter. World that the human barin can't fully imagine. Can SOMETHING (no matter what) exist in this world? An entity of any kind? An other version of matter which doesn't need space to exist?

The problem is that the human brain not only cannot fully imagine such a scenario, it cannot imagine such a scenario at all. Then again, maybe it is just me--limited imagination. If anyone can describe a world without time, space and matter, other than just making such a statement, it would be very enlightening.

One could imagine a world with no motion and no change and therefore no time. One possibly could imagine a world with only one dimention and therefore no matter. Imagining a world with no space is the most difficult. Imagining a world with no time, space, or matter--priceless.
 
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If one could imagine a world without space, time, or matter, I imagine they could imagine worlds with countless features we are without. Also, without time, there can be no conciousness, and it takes a moment, at least, to imagine. So what we view as imagining would be an invalid way of observing such a plane. It seems easy enough to imagine a world without matter because we have the ability to observe dog or no dog, so it's just applying the same idea to the cosmos (this is open to argument, of course). We can't really do that with time. Only thing is when we sleep. So, I guess, try to imagine the timeless experience you have between moments of conciousness as a constant, which can't really be done.
 
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avpx said:
This question was bothering me for long time, but i couldn't find the answer to this question.
Try to imagine that there is another world without time, space and matter. World that the human barin can't fully imagine. Can SOMETHING (no matter what) exist in this world? An entity of any kind? An other version of matter which doesn't need space to exist?
Is this question WRT to objects composed of matter? I mean of course linguistic objects and abstractions would existed.
 
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Time is nothing more complicated than change. Change is one of the constant properties of the universe. All things change, even at light speed this is maintained in a weird kind of abstract way. So this question is simpler than it would appear, provided we realize the fact that time is change. The something you speak of would be eternaly unchanged, without movement or decay or physics. Nothing would ever interact with it because even the slightest change would be contradictory to it's timeless property. This last fact tells us that anything removed from the dimension of time must be also removed of space (Also Einstein's relativity and Tenser calculus tell us that time and space are one, so to remove one is to remove both). The something could not exist in cohabitation with our spacetime environment because it would be capable of interaction at it's boundary and measurements could be taken as we swirled around it.

The Something therefore has no x,y or z dimensions else it could be marked on a geometric grid and cannot ever change in any way what so ever. Well, to answer your question I would say that quantum particles have no x,y or z dimension when momentum is known so that is obviously possible, even within the realm of spacetime physics. However, all things change. So what does this do to our argument? Nothing.

Imagine if the universe came to a complete holt. No particle would move in relation to any other particle. The point here is that it could be happening and we would not know. If electrons couldn't move through neural paths in our brains and no object could change or decay in any way or move in any dimension it would be impossible to detect the pause in time. It is important to realize that this paused universe would actually be a universe without a dimension of time during the pause. So it is impossible to argue that this has not occurred at some point due to the fact that it would be undetectable.

So the the example you have given could very well describe our own universe since all our particles are acting according to the laws of QM and therefore do not always have a property of x,y or z dimensions and time can't be proven to be constantly in effect. I don't know anyone who would argue that they don't exist, so I would say that the answer to your question is YES!
 
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Time is a componenet that cannot be removed, because it is nothing at all. If we remove all the units (geometry of nothing) of our universe, we still have time. What would be missing is the gage for time. i.e the tick and tock would be gone.

In our universe, there are only ones, one at a time, where time is the nothing ones are composed of.
 
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[quote[Time is nothing more complicated than change. Change is one of the constant properties of the universe. All things change, even at light speed this is maintained in a weird kind of abstract way. So this question is simpler than it would appear, provided we realize the fact that time is change. The something you speak of would be eternaly unchanged, without movement or decay or physics.[/quote]

Alternatively, there could be something else to change
 
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I don't understand what is meant in your posts Castlegate and Office Shredder. Are you both saying that my interpretation of the time dimension is wrong? I have always assumed that time is a measure of the rate of change. It is a tool that we overlay against the workings of the universe so as to compare observations of change. If time has some other property that I have missed, please explain in depth as I would be greatfull to hear it.
 
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David Burke said:
I don't understand what is meant in your posts Castlegate and Office Shredder. Are you both saying that my interpretation of the time dimension is wrong? I have always assumed that time is a measure of the rate of change. It is a tool that we overlay against the workings of the universe so as to compare observations of change. If time has some other property that I have missed, please explain in depth as I would be greatfull to hear it.

We need events to garner a sense of time, but these events are not a representation of time. Time being the non-event between those events. The tick and tock of a clock represent events. Whats between tick and tock is absolutely nothing at all. Should you (lets say) approach the speed of light, you don't slow time down, you slow the rate of tic and tock. Time never changes, it is after all (nothing).

Thats my story, and I,m sticking to it for all time. :smile:
 
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So you are saying that if no change occurred within the universe time would continue to serve a purpose of some sort? If so, what purpose would it serve?
 
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David Burke said:
So you are saying that if no change occurred within the universe time would continue to serve a purpose of some sort? If so, what purpose would it serve?

Removing change, or what I would call markers for time involves removing all that exist. We would then be left with nothing (time). Thusly an eternity of time would have to pass before a new marker could be put into play, by which all other markers after are based. Time (nothing) serves no purpose other than to lie there and play the two dollar whore, by which things((forms of nothing) (markers)) go about their business. The universe (a collection of markers) stands as the definition of nothing (time), wherein nothing (time) is the only ingredient, while the markers serve as fundamental containers for it.

Nothing stands for zero, while the markers stand for one. This is a necessary contradiction that allows us to tell any (one) from any other (one). Nothing (time) serves the purpose of existence, as existence serves to define that which does not exist.

In our universe there are only ones, one at a time, where time is the nothing ones are composed of.
 
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Not having a higher educational understanding of philosophy has put me in the possition of being completely confused. I don't understand how your description of the time dimension changes it from a theoretical frame of reference (such as Euclidian geometry) to a universal property (such as mass). I'm not saying your wrong, I am simply unable to grasp the central idea of your argument.
 
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David Burke said:
Not having a higher educational understanding of philosophy has put me in the possition of being completely confused. I don't understand how your description of the time dimension changes it from a theoretical frame of reference (such as Euclidian geometry) to a universal property (such as mass). I'm not saying your wrong, I am simply unable to grasp the central idea of your argument.


I'd like to offer up an explanation of how a goemetric representation of time can become a property such as mass, but that will take some effort on my part, and I'm a bit short on time, at this time. I will do my best when time allows.
 
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Observation provides us with experience in three dimensions of space and one dimension of time, but science has suggested that there are other dimensions in which nature operates, dimensions so exquisitely small that all of us will be very lucky if in our lifetimes human eyes pierce their miniscule depths. Kaluza, for instance, suggested that light is a phenomenon of 4 spatial dimensions. While he was later proven wrong, his theories have become the basis for string theory and its offshoots which predict the existence of numerous ultramicroscopic spatial dimensions. I believe some of these dimensions are said to lie outside of time and they are also places which govern quantum interactions. Quantum mechanics describes particles that eddy forward or backward in time. At times they disappear completely, then reappear again. Where do they go? Outside of the 3 dimensions of space and dimension of time with which we are familiar. How does it happen? That remains a mystery. The point of all this is that it is possible to conceive of space without time, indeed the quanta seem to require space without time.

The quanta are energy (photons) and matter (electrons, quarks, etc.) Yet we suspect that they exist to a certain extent outside of time. So it would seem quite possible to have a place where there is matter and space without time. Indeed, all light remains outside of time (as I have recently been reminded in a thread in the relativity forum). And paradoxically it exists in space without having a clear frame of reference in space (another point I was reminded of in the relativity forum). So, light (energy) it would seem also exists in space without existing in time.

I think the problem with the original argument in this thread is that it assumes that time, matter and space are all requirements for existence. Yet observation of the quantum world would seem to contradict this notion. The lasting and fundamental elements of existence would seem to be light, matter and space. When all is reckoned it may be that time is a dispensible element of the universe.
 
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On a more speculative note, I can imagine a universe in which there is no dimension of time. Let me explain first by describing two different kinds of change that occur in classical spacetime. The two kinds of change are changes of position and changes of state. In spacetime, a man can move from point a to point b and has thereby changed his position. Likewise, in that same period of time, the man's blood cells and other tissues and constituents move from points a to points b. These too are changes in position. Yet as he moved their were other changes going on (the slow decay and regeneration associated with quantum processes and entropy). I call these changes, changes of state. To observe changes of state at an accelerated rate, if I increase the temperature of the man's environment by two thousand degrees, quantum interaction and entropy kick into high gear--the change of state becomes obvious. The man's energy increases and his matter becomes disorganized. He becomes gases in the air, water vapor, and solids that fall upon the ground. In an oversimplified way, that's how things operate in spacetime.

These different kinds of change--changes of position and changes of state--are not equal. Changes of position have no real or lasting impact upon the macroscopic objects that the quanta compose unless the change in position is related to an accompanying change of state (i.e. the reentry of a rocket body). But when quantum processes cause a change of state in macroscopic objects (and these quantum interactions should not be mistaken for changes of position since the quanta don't necessarily behave that way), a different kind of change (perhaps a more irreversable kind of change) takes place in the object. Sometimes it becomes a different object all together. Sometimes it breaks into many objects or fuses together with other object to become a larger object.

So I can imagine a universe in which there are changes of position, without changes of state. In such a universe the quanta would have to operate differently than they do in spacetime. I also believe that the deterministic properties of spacetime would have to give way to a greater degree of freedom. But to go farther than that would likely get this thread locked. And that would be a pity.
 
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This should help you, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant

"The two interconnected foundations of what Kant called his "critical philosophy" of the "Copernican revolution" which he claimed to have wrought in philosophy were his epistemology of Transcendental Idealism and his moral philosophy of the autonomy of practical reason. These placed the active, rational human subject at the center of the cognitive and moral worlds. With regard to knowledge, Kant argued that the rational order of the world as known by science could never be accounted for merely by the fortuitous accumulation of sense perceptions. It was instead the product of the rule-based activity of "synthesis." This consisted of conceptual unification and integration carried out by the mind through concepts or the "categories of the understanding" operating on the perceptual manifold within space and time, which are not concepts, but forms of sensibility that are a priori necessary conditions for any possible experience."

By Kant's Critique of Pure Reason if you are really interested

avpx said:
This question was bothering me for long time, but i couldn't find the answer to this question.
Try to imagine that there is another world without time, space and matter. World that the human barin can't fully imagine. Can SOMETHING (no matter what) exist in this world? An entity of any kind? An other version of matter which doesn't need space to exist?
 
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Wallin said:
On a more speculative note, I can imagine a universe in which there is no dimension of time. Let me explain first by describing two different kinds of change that occur in classical spacetime. The two kinds of change are changes of position and changes of state. In spacetime, a man can move from point a to point b and has thereby changed his position. Likewise, in that same period of time, the man's blood cells and other tissues and constituents move from points a to points b. These too are changes in position. Yet as he moved their were other changes going on (the slow decay and regeneration associated with quantum processes and entropy). I call these changes, changes of state. To observe changes of state at an accelerated rate, if I increase the temperature of the man's environment by two thousand degrees, quantum interaction and entropy kick into high gear--the change of state becomes obvious. The man's energy increases and his matter becomes disorganized. He becomes gases in the air, water vapor, and solids that fall upon the ground. In an oversimplified way, that's how things operate in spacetime.

These different kinds of change--changes of position and changes of state--are not equal. Changes of position have no real or lasting impact upon the macroscopic objects that the quanta compose unless the change in position is related to an accompanying change of state (i.e. the reentry of a rocket body). But when quantum processes cause a change of state in macroscopic objects (and these quantum interactions should not be mistaken for changes of position since the quanta don't necessarily behave that way), a different kind of change (perhaps a more irreversable kind of change) takes place in the object. Sometimes it becomes a different object all together. Sometimes it breaks into many objects or fuses together with other object to become a larger object.

So I can imagine a universe in which there are changes of position, without changes of state. In such a universe the quanta would have to operate differently than they do in spacetime. I also believe that the deterministic properties of spacetime would have to give way to a greater degree of freedom. But to go farther than that would likely get this thread locked. And that would be a pity.

This is beyond fascinating.
So you're saying there could in theory exist a world where nothing but the quantum states change, but the macroscopic world did not have 'time'?
I'm not certain about the workings of quantum mechanics, but what is the difference right now between say a rock floating onto the shore on some beach, and the underlying quantum phenomena that makes the rock float ashore?

And how different would the quanta be in this timeless world?
 
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Maybe I wasn't very clear in my language. Sorry. I'm simply saying that if we lived in a world where the quanta that compose the macroscopic world (quanta of energy and matter) were bound together in such a way that changes of state didn't occur, changes of position could still occur. Such a world is counter to observation and is very counter to general relativity. I can't therefore say such a world is theoretically possible. I can only say I can imagine such a world based upon certain aspects of my meager understanding of the quanta.

By the way, nobody on Earth truly understands the quanta. If anyone every tells you that they do, be very suspicious. To predict a things behavior does not equal understanding. We are reasonably good at saying what the quanta will do, but we don't have the slightest idea why they do it.

Back to the timeless world, I don't think the properties of things in such a world would necessarily change. Rocks would still act like rocks. Water would act like water. People would act like people. But rocks would not loose matter or decompose under the influence of errosion. Water would not break down into hydrogen and oxygen. People would not die. Eating would be difficult. But then we wouldn't get hungry, either. The original post was about imagining a world without time, matter or space. Eventually the thread focused upon reality's dependence upon time. I simply wanted to propose that a world without time is quite imaginable (at least to me). But I suspect that motion (change in position) might still be allowed in a timeless world. Its important to note that Einstein would definitely disagree with this assessment.
 
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When David Burke said "Imagine if the universe came to a complete holt. No particle would move in relation to any other particle. The point here is that it could be happening and we would not know. If electrons couldn't move through neural paths in our brains and no object could change or decay in any way or move in any dimension it would be impossible to detect the pause in time. It is important to realize that this paused universe would actually be a universe without a dimension of time during the pause. So it is impossible to argue that this has not occurred at some point due to the fact that it would be undetectable."

So if so, "If electrons couldn't move through neural paths in our brains and no object could change or decay in any way or move in any dimension it would be impossible to detect the pause in time." does seem to say would we (as humans) still be alive...?
 
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Space and time can be considered to be relationships between elements. In space an element has a positional relation to other elements with other positional coordinates in whatever dimensionality is involved. In time an element has a relationship with a copy of the same element in a different array that tends to have copies of the other spatially related elements within the first array.

The question lies do these relationships necessitate the 'physical' or do they define the physical independent of it. One possibility is block time or block universe, where time would be an illusion, somehow the mere relationship between elements through a temporal dimension, actually is time itself.

Whether space itself is also merely the manifestation of the relationship between elements related in a particular way is also a possibility.

In mathematics, it was found that for example geometry and algebra were connected. That there was an intrinsic connection wereupon an equation and a line, a curve, an n-dimensional object could be related. The equation could be used to systematically obtain the coordinates of all the points in a geometric object, thus inherent in it was the relationship described by the geometry.

In the brain we see that, like in Plato's allegory of the cave, all that enters is but digital information. Colorless, tasteless, soundless, yet in this absolute darkness the brain is able to ellicit the controversial 'qualia' merely by obtaining the relationships out of the spatiotemporal statistical properties of this digital input. Out of mere relationships as implicit input, the most solid and intimate of conscious experiences is manifested. Might it not be that just as in the emergence of feeling in the mind, the rest of the world itself emerges out of the relationships of abstract information?


So if so, "If electrons couldn't move through neural paths in our brains and no object could change or decay in any way or move in any dimension it would be impossible to detect the pause in time." does seem to say would we (as humans) still be alive...?

As suggested by block time(block universe) possibility, this may already be our reality and the various 'instants' of our time are actually this, timeless structures embedded in some eternal medium. Time but an illusion or better said a relationship.

PS

An eternal world presents one with the possibility of there being an eternal record of one's existence. Whether this is accessible to any conceivable entity is another question. But the mere possibility of everything one did being recorded for eternity, that is longer than any human civilization could record, is pleasing. It would imply that one's achievements will forever be recorded, forever be.
 
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I haven't read all the posts in detail, but has anyone mentioned abstract things like the natural numbers? They exist in some sense as do Plato's ideal solids, but they do not exist per se in space and time . Certainly the properties of the natural numbers are discovered, not invented by humans. I'm sure any alien intelligence would have the same essential concepts of the natural numbers that humans have.
 
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SW VandeCarr said:
I haven't read all the posts in detail, but has anyone mentioned abstract things like the natural numbers? They exist in some sense as do Plato's ideal solids, but they do not exist per se in space and time . Certainly the properties of the natural numbers are discovered, not invented by humans. I'm sure any alien intelligence would have the same essential concepts of the natural numbers that humans have.

they are imaginary---if they are only thoughts, they don't exist. There has to be some definition of 'exist' (no 'per se' about it)---and imaginary things are not in that group.


Werewolves and vampires do not exist...

edit: even if you want to contemplate those things, it still takes 'time' to contemplate something 'imaginary'...
 
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rewebster said:
they are imaginary---if they are only thoughts, they don't exist. There has to be some defhainition of 'exist' (no 'per se' about it)---and imaginary things are not in that group.

The natural numbers, a least, have properties that humans did not create. We have no general formula that efficiently generates all the primes for example. We do not fully understand the structure of the natural number system.

Imaginary things are private. They can be communicated between individuals, but they originate in someone's mind, such as literary fiction.

Do you think an alien intelligence would not have discovered the same system of natural numbers as humans have? They are universal, as are transcendental numbers like pi and e.

Do you think we imagine the value of pi?

You're confusing the existence of abstract entities with the way we represent them. It's true we invent those representations. The OP asked if anything exists outside of space and time. You apparently think abstract entities don't exist. Neither did I once. But I was three years old at the time.

EDIT: Are you seriously equating the existence of the natural numbers with the "existence" of werewolves and vampires?
 
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Actually aliens might not value pi as much as we do it really depends on how they want to look at the math. And it's also possible aliens might have found a way to work with numbers without using any number above 10 or 5 you never really know :) It is unlikely I agree.
 
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magpies said:
Actually aliens might not value pi as much as we do it really depends on how they want to look at the math. And it's also possible aliens might have found a way to work with numbers without using any number above 10 or 5 you never really know :) It is unlikely I agree.

How do you "look at the math" and get a different value of pi?

Primitive societies have developed primitive number systems that only go up to some number such as 5 or 15. This is an issue, in part, of representation, and in part of a limited ability to abstract.
 
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avpx said:
This question was bothering me for long time, but i couldn't find the answer to this question.
Try to imagine that there is another world without time, space and matter. World that the human barin can't fully imagine. Can SOMETHING (no matter what) exist in this world? An entity of any kind? An other version of matter which doesn't need space to exist?

well, spooky action at a distance, as it is acting instantaneously over any distance, *may* imply that at the quantum level there is no time or space. Perhaps quantum law originates from outside our universe/reality.
 
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sd01g said:
Imagining a world with no space is the most difficult. Imagining a world with no time, space, or matter--priceless.
I don't only imagine 'it', I 'feel it' too.

Can you imagine Ultimate State of Existance?

Could it be a State of Beingness with highest awareness, purest joy, total peace, utmost beauty and deepest love?

Well, I say yes. And, there is no need for matter, space or time for 'It' to exist, for it's simply pure and complete awareness.
 
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Boy@n said:
I don't only imagine 'it', I 'feel it' too.

Can you imagine Ultimate State of Existance?

Could it be a State of Beingness with highest awareness, purest joy, total peace, utmost beauty and deepest love?

Well, I say yes. And, there is no need for matter, space or time for 'It' to exist, for it's simply pure and complete awareness.

We have a term her on PF for this, yes.

It's called
- gone off the rails
- left the reservation
- cheese slipped off the cracker

or most notably, thread locked.
 
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Overly speculative. No longer meets forum criteria.

Thread closed.
 

1. Can something exist without time-space?

This is a highly debated topic in the scientific community. Some theories suggest that time and space are fundamental aspects of the universe and therefore, it is impossible for something to exist without them. Other theories propose the existence of entities or phenomena that exist outside of time and space.

2. What evidence supports the idea of something existing without time-space?

Currently, there is no concrete evidence to support the existence of something without time-space. However, some scientists point to the concept of quantum entanglement, where particles can be connected regardless of distance, as a possible indication of something existing outside of time and space.

3. How does the concept of time-space impact our understanding of the universe?

The concept of time-space is crucial in our understanding of the universe. It helps us explain the movement of objects, the passage of time, and the expansion of the universe. Without it, our understanding of the fundamental laws of physics would be incomplete.

4. Can we ever prove or disprove the existence of something without time-space?

As of now, it is impossible to prove or disprove the existence of something without time-space. Our current understanding of the universe is limited, and there may be phenomena or entities that exist beyond our perception. However, with advancements in technology and further research, we may be able to gain a better understanding of this concept in the future.

5. Are there any philosophical implications of something existing without time-space?

The idea of something existing without time-space poses philosophical questions about the nature of reality and our existence. It challenges our understanding of cause and effect, and the concept of free will. It also raises questions about the limitations of human perception and the boundaries of the physical world.

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