Einstein

futurenets

Not sure why I'm mentioning this but here goes ...

Einstein writes in the Principia “Time exists in and of itself …”

Does this conflict with the Buddhist concept of emptiness i.e. the absence of inherent existence in all phenomena?

All feedback welcome

DairyLama

futurenets said:

Einstein writes in the Principia “Time exists in and of itself …”

Didn't Einstein reject the classical notion of independent time?

David

Yeah, that isn't right because the theory of relativity insists time could not exist without space and that time is relative and not absolute. It was Newton that thought time was absolute.

Einstein also believed there is only one moment in time which is now.

"...for us physicists believe the separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, although a convincing one."

lobster

Here is my blog on time and dimensional travel which has not been updated for some time
http://qgate.soup.io/
You may find it of interest.

Been waiting for a breakthrough from another dimension . . . :crazy:

Jeffrey

There is always a sense of time in awareness. But the three times: past, present, and future are dependently (or interdependently) arisen. Without past and future there is no present. But any moment is immediately in the past once it happens. The pondering of the future happens IN the present.

Since all times are interdependent that means that they cannot be establish as independent. Sooo there is no time, but there is always a SENSE of time in awareness.

futurenets

excellent thank you