Does time exist?

[nohorn]

Is it true that time does not exist.......something to do with physics?

[NoK]

no it's not true , it is 6:24 and i am very tired

[jake-the-peg]

I'm not really sure what you mean. Actually I'm not sure if you know what you mean!

It's true that time doesn't behave the way most people think it does. It slows down or even stops in strong gravitational fields or when moving very quickly and is an aspect of physical space ( we talk of space-time )

But it definately exists.

[R1Geezer]

Are you perhaps alluding to Julian Barbour's theory about time in his book "The end of time"?
http://www.platonia.com/books.html
scroll down to the "end of time", I have read this and if I'm honest I struggled to get to grips with his ideas, perhaps jake knows more.

[jake-the-peg]

Not read the book but looking at the blurb it rather appears to be a statement of the obvious.

As I mentioned above Time is inextricably linked to the phisical space we experience in the universe.

The problem comes where the author starts to say things like.
If we could stand outside the universe and �see it as it is�, it would appear to be static

What does this even mean? There are so many problems with this I hardly know where to start. But I guess it's inevitable without resorting to mathematics.

One thing for sure though time is the most puzzling thing and we've only just scratched the surface of understanding it.

[nohorn]

Thank you Jake and Geezer..........Barbours theory was what I was referring to........space time, etc. I think I know what you mean. I was hoping Jake would respond. He does respond in terms that can be understandable. As he said, we have only scratched the surface.