An issue with time

We have had numerous threads all over PF on "What is time?" Many of these threads have very unpleasant fate, which were either being locked, or completely deleted. This topic appears to attract way too many speculations and some time even outright crackpottery.

I would suggest you do a search first on all the various threads that are left on this very topic.

Zz.

 

your answer lies in the "general theory of relativity" by Einstein. Time is in no sense different compared to the x-axis of space(just like the x-axis is no different than the y-axis, or the z-axis in exclusiveness/identity). The universe is a complex distorted 'spacetime'.

 

Time is just another spacial dimension, as I see it. We only perceive if as constantly moving forward because our consciousnesses are formed from differences in its topology over a span of coordinates. I equate its seeming seemlessness to the same forces that make multiple atom thick layers of a rock seem almost identical at a macroscopic scale.

 

This is just plain wrong. If this were the case, we would live in a Euclidean universe devoid of all the rich physics of relativity. The fact that time is NOT like the other spatial dimensions, as exemplified by the lorentzian metric signature, is extraordinarily important. Often times when discussing relativity we praise the unification of space and time, but one cannot forget that the two are in fact distinct.

 

Is that just to make it easier to comprehend?

Do you have any recommended reading?