You seem to misunderstand my position.
My present stance is that time has no independent existence. What we perceive as time is the causal chain in motion.
Thus any experiment or argument you present to me that presumes the independent existence of time is going to be insufficient. Likewise anything derived from the assumption that time is real, which includes anything related to relativity.
Well it would be helpful to provide any literature on your stance. Preferably (but not absolutely required) a scientific paper so I can read up on it.
I will admit I do not have a ready scientific basis for the stance, it comes from philosophy. Specifically Hume and McTaggart, as well as my own musings on the topic. Though there was something I read regarding the possibility that the speed of light isn't constant from some physicist, decades ago, that also informs my position, but I can't recall his name or the title of the work.
I do not deny that there is some phenomena occurring, but I am of the opinion that this sort of science is presuming an awful lot about the nature of reality. I can accept having those discussions and making inquiries based on those assumptions, but do not want us to lose sight of the fact that they are assumptions.
Literature on his stance isn't necessary, basic logic is.
Time doesn't exist, it's a byproduct of human perception.
You know you've been through things that are currently not happening- like your childhood- and you know things that have not happened are likely to happen- like going to sleep after it gets dark- and you have to make sense of all of it. So, you place what has happened behind you and call it the past, and what hasn't happened in front of you and call it the future.
Neither the past nor the future actually exists, there is no timestream, it's a measurement concept used by humans to make sense of the universe in relation to themselves.
Delete human beings and there is no past or future, there is only what's currently happening.
You can't go backward, you can't go forward, you just exist in the now and you remember shit that is no longer happening/predict shit that is likely to happen, and you order this in your own mind in a linear way that you fool yourself into believing is an external phenomenon.
Literature on his stance isn't necessary
lol. ok.
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