DIVERSE OPINIONS ABOUT TIME

Time is a physical magnitude that affects all reality, but we do not have a specific sense to perceive intervals. This makes each person makes a different idea about the nature of time. There is no consensus about what time is.

1- Heraclitus of Ephesus (philosopher): becoming flows like a river, is the Being.
2- Parmenides (philosopher): no changes, no time.
3- Isaac Newton (physicist) time is real and absolute.
4- Immanuel Kant (philosopher): time is an a priori form.
5- Albert Einstein (physicist): Time is an illusion and relative.
6- Henri Bergson (philosopher): rejected the mathematical time.
7- Martin Heidegger (philosopher): time is the being-there or dasein, time is temporary.
8- Julian Barbour (physicist): time does not exist.
9- Paul Davies (physicist): defends the unidirectionality or arrow of time.
10- José Ignacio Latorre (physicist): time is a parameter that connects two movements.
11- Lee Smolin (physicist): time is real.
12- Bradford Skow (philosopher): past, present and future coexist in the universe.
13- David Eagleman (neurobiologist): time is invented by the brain.

Summary of these opinions:

1. It is objective (real)
2. It is subjective (ilussion)
3. It is subjective (a priori)
4. It is the becoming-duration duality (real)

Elvis Sibilia