I am totally unconvinced that now actually exists

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I am not convinced now actually exists. I've yet to find it.   I can't quantify it.  How short is 'now', exactly?  Is it an infinitely small amount of time?

Oh, hey, ... yeah, ... um... well that really helps narrow it down.  

So we have to go from here to infinity to find now?

Hey now.  Here now. There now.

Here here!  There there... 

Now, now ... don't be sad.

the_none

"Now" is the thing with the place and the guys on the side.

Math0t

Actually 'now' is the only time there is.

You can't do anyting in the past. And you can only do things in the future when that future moment is 'now'.

Knightly_News

But you can't really be here now or follow now because you can't find now. You can say now is all there really is, but it is infinitely small and therefore it is tracking infinitely quickly through time, yet it can go nowhere because that which is infinitely small cannot make any measurable progress moving through infinite time, or even any through any amount of time at all.

At least that's what it seems like to me.

Knightly_News

^^^ See last reply for the deep cozmic stuff ^^^

THERE IS NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT.

(but also)

THERE IS NO TIME.  LIKE THE PRESENT!

(and)

THERE IS NO TIME.  LIKE THE PRESENT?

Math0t

I don't think it's correct to say that 'now' is physically infinitely small, as time has no physical size. And it wouldn't surprise me if now would be a quantum of time, not infinitely short. Or maybe 'now' even is infinitely large and we are traveling through the infinite versions of 'now', which we call time.

But I must admit I know almost nothing about the subject, so I think I will shut up now Tongue Out

Knightly_News
Math0t wrote:

I don't think it's correct to say that 'now' is physically infinitely small, as time has no physical size. And it wouldn't surprise me if now would be a quantum of time, not infinitely short. Or maybe 'now' even is infinitely large and we are traveling through the infinite versions of 'now', which we call time.

But I must admit I know almost nothing about the subject, so I think I will shut up now 

Maybe everything exists and doesn't exist and that's how something was created from nothing, or the alternative, something was here forever without beginning.  Existence is relative to non-existence.  If something exists, it implies a state of non-existence, and vice versa.  So non-existence can't be the case without existence.  So if there is no non-existence and no existence, then is that a hybrid state or an anti-hybrid state?

jumphrope
I am still not convinced you are in a normal, stable condition