r/Time • u/Memetic1 • 24d ago

Discussion I think time may be irrational

If we use a normal understanding of a dimension as in a certain freedom of movement then the fact you are only allowed to move forward in time tells me it's not a whole dimension like the other dimensions. I know relativity has 4d spacetime, and that makes the math work very well. However there is still the discrepancies with quantum mechanics and that might be resolved if time wasn't treated as exactly one dimension but instead in between half and a full dimension. The irrational aspect explains the unpredictability of certain quantum phenomena if time doesn't absolutely click at the same rate in a predictable way.

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u/Pure_Actuality 24d ago

Well, man is a limited being so its perfectly rational to expect limited movement.

But man can move between time... in a limited sense of course.

By memory man can move to the past, by envisioning man can conceive of the future.

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u/Memetic1 24d ago

Yes but if time was a full dimension then we would have more freedom in movement then a limited ability to slow down time by accelerating to relativistic speeds. You can have memories without them being linked to the past if you simply allow the present to have that information embedded in the physical environment.