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People have explained how time flows but not why time flows or how time flow is possible at all. How does science explain time flow?

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    Check that this question has already been asked here. Please, have a seach before asking new questions. Thank you. What is time, does it flow, and if so what defines its direction? – FGSUZ Aug 05 '20 at 10:42
  • Saying entropy answers the question of flow is like Magritte Treachery of Images. You don't have flow so how do you create entropy? Its a nice narrative without any real essence. – NationWidePants Aug 05 '20 at 11:01
  • Are you questioning the possibility of time flow because of the block universe? My answer discusses that. – mmesser314 Aug 05 '20 at 11:10
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    The question of how time flows is the only meaningful one that can be answered by physics. We don't know why anything happens and the purpose of creating mathematical models in physics isn't to answer this question. We are only able to know that things work a particular way, not why nature "chose" them to be that way. – Charlie Aug 05 '20 at 11:22
  • @mmesser314 the block theory doesn't explain flow, but i suppose you did say that any lambda label for flow was meaningless. Does this statement mean science doesn't have a concept for flow of time? – NationWidePants Aug 05 '20 at 11:23
  • @charlie I suppose that's the answer I wanted then. – NationWidePants Aug 05 '20 at 11:25
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    @Charlie Better said, we stopped asking why questions in physics a long time ago. The ancient Greeks did it, we haven't done so for centuries now. That's the main difference between science back then, much closer to philosophy, and science now. – ChemiCalChems Aug 05 '20 at 11:28
  • Please don't post the same question twice. – Carl Witthoft Aug 05 '20 at 13:59
  • @Carl Witthoft its clearly not the same and its not a duplicate since no one had answered why, only how. Since people keep falsely labeling it as a duplicate the text on the post actually states "If this question doesn’t resolve your question, ask a new one." If you have an issue it sounds like you need to post it to a meta rather than to me. – NationWidePants Aug 05 '20 at 14:19
  • @Solomon still doesn't make it a duplicate, however, or unanswerable, since I got an answer. You might try to argue that its unrelated to science, but a lot of theoretical science discusses metaphysical properties and i don't see how this is any different. – NationWidePants Aug 05 '20 at 15:15

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