17 Jan 2020

Time is an illusion | Past Present and Future Exist at the Same Time | Max Tegmark | Block Universe

According to physicists time is not real, it is just an illusion. There is no past, present or future, they all exist together. It means everything happens at the same time.
Actually the concept of time is simply an illusion made up of human memories.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology physicist Max Tegmark, told space.com: "we can portray our reality as either a three dimensional place where stuff happens over time, or as a four dimensional place where nothing happens i.e. a block universe- and if it really is the second picture, then change really is an illusion, because there is nothing that is changing; it's all just there - past, present, future.


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“we have the illusion, at any given moment, that the past already happened and the future doesn't yet exist, and that things are changing.
"But all I am ever aware of is my brain state right now. The only reason I feel like I have a past is that my brain contains memories."
According to the block Universe theory, the universe is a giant block of all the things that ever happen at any time and at any place. On the basis of this block Universe model, past, present and future are not separate, they all are present at the same time.
According to this model, every moment of our life is out there, somewhere in space-time.
Our birth and death moments both coexist at the same time, somewhere in space time coordinates.
So according to the block Universe theory, it is possible to time travel. But it says that passing of time is just an illusion. Nothing is changing in our universe. Every event that has happened from the beginning of the universe, any event that we are observing right now and any event that will happen in the future, is already present at certain coordinates in the block Universe. So passing of time is not real, it is an illusion that we observe because of our memory of the past. Nothing is passing, everything is already there somewhere in space time.

To make this idea easy to understand, let me give you a simple example.
When we watch a recorded video on our mobile phone, then we see, things are happening in a sequence as the time passes in the video. Let me ask you... whatever you are seeing in the video is happening in real time? You will Say, no...
Because you are just watching events that have already happened. You are just seeing the recorded events in the past.
The whole story told in the video, has already been told. You can go to any point in the video by reversing and forwarding it. The whole story is already present in the recorded form in the memory of mobile. But whenever anyone watches this video from starting to end, he or she feels like events are taking place in the real time and they enjoy it. But nothing is happening at that time. Everything has already happened.
In the same way, according to the block Universe model, everything that has happened, is happening and will happen, is already present at the same time in the universe at some point in space time. We are moving from past to present and from present to future with time, is just an illusion of our brains. So time is an illusion!!!

So friends, You can share your ideas and questions regarding, what is time, in the comment section. Do you agree with the block Universe theory? Do you really think that time is an illusion. Share with others your point of view about the time.

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