Physicists have made a shocking statement - time does not exist. Factrum tells the details.
For a person, time definitely exists: we wake up in the morning, move forward in time during the day, and at some point go to bed, and in a dream we also continue to move forward in time. The old adage “time doesn’t wait” seems quite true, doesn't it?
The problems began when Einstein's general theory of relativity, which describes the laws of physics on a large scale, collided with quantum physics, the field that attempts to describe the smallest particles in the universe, and the theory of wave-particle duality, which states that light is both waves and particles. first tested.
For years, physicists have tried to combine two mismatched regions by composing the Great Unifying Equation, believing that, despite the scale, everything in the Universe must be connected with each other - from particles to galaxies.
A little over 40 years ago, two brilliant physicists, John Wheeler and Bryce-DeWitt, developed such an equation. Nevertheless, their discovery immediately seemed controversial, because if the equation is correct, then such a thing as time does not exist at all at the most fundamental level of matter.
Bryce-De Witt (second from left)
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While the concept is confusing, it can be true, and what we subjectively perceive as “time” is in fact the measurable effect of global changes in the world around us. And the more we delve into the world of atoms, protons and photons, the less relevant the concept of time becomes.
This opinion is supported by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. NIST is the keeper of the world's most accurate atomic clock, by which all other clocks around the world are checked. Scientists from NIST claim that their ultra-precise watches do not measure time at all: time is determined by the marks on the clock. In fact, time allows us to create order in life: if we had not come up with such a concept as "time", there would have been complete chaos around.
Physics seems to agree with this.