No Time Ever

It's a question that came to my mind a few years ago, and it seemed at first only as a game of thought... but it really gives a different perspective on reality.

Time seems to be a non-existent thing - it is a valid concept, but it does not exist in itself, not like everyday objects in any case.

Let's start by noticing that everything we think is the passing of time is only the movement of objects relative to each other.

What?

Yes. When you read a clock, you are only reading where the hands of the clock are. If you wait, then the hands turn slowly. In this case the passing of time is only realized by the movement of the hands of the clock.

You might say that this is just a specific example, and it's not good because watches and clocks were designed to move in such a way ~ in other words they only measure time.

But what isn't "only" a measurement of time? We have minutes and hours and months and years passing - each of these is connected to the movement of objects - the rotation of a hand on a clock or the Earth revolving around the Sun!

So here's what I think: there is no such thing as time - we are all objects moving around in the forever existing present. What does this mean? There is no past, there is no future - there is no "time-path" that we are moving along. There is no "flow of time". There is no time-travel and there is no rewinding time. Because there is only a constant present, and we are always rearranging everything in that present.

So I say that we are objects, moving relative to one another and we can only move as fast or as slow in space as our "moving-ness" allows us - in other words our mass. It is our mass that determines how we can move around in the forever-present.

Time is only a parameter that helps us get a common grasp on all this moving around. In physics, the concept of "time" was never defined - Newton defined just about everything in his Principia, except for "time" - he only wrote that the concept of time is trivial, it does not need to be defined.


p.s.: Babies and children don't have a concept of time - they slowly start learning what time is through experience. You can not tell children that they should wait an hour for something - it is incomprehensible for them - you must tell them that they have to wait until the small hand on the clock goes around completely.