Why difficulties associated with the determination of time do not obstruct the adequate definition of objective time

Lolaev Totraz Petrovich, Mouravov Alan Lazarevich

The work is devoted to the difficulties associated with the definition of the concept of time. These difficulties caused the concept of time to be considered in science as an indefinable concept. As the authors believe, attempts by researchers to define the concept of time did not give positive results, since they operated with general ideas about some unified time, which does not exist. There are two tenses: objective and subjective. Moreover, subjective time arises and exists in the mind of the observer, while objective time exists in nature, and there are fundamental differences between them. Therefore, the concept of each of the two times must be considered separately. The authors formulated the concept of objective time, which, according to the functional concept, is formed as a result of a successive change of qualitatively new states of each object, process (each object is a process). Objective time from the appearance of an object to the embodiment of its material content in the subsequent object or subsequent objects is the present time, there are no past and future times in nature. According to modern ideas about time, the present is an instant that cannot be measured, and therefore it cannot be an object of science. This paradox has become another difficulty associated with the definition of time. The authors, relying on the functional concept, believe that the present time can be measured, since it lasts from the appearance of an object until its disappearance as such. The next reason that has become an obstacle to the definition of time is the fact that, according to scientific ideas, time has three modes: past, present and future, while, according to the functional concept, time is always present and flows from the present to the next present. Past and future times do not have the status of reality. In this regard, according to the authors, this difficulty is overcome. According to researchers, all attempts to define the concept of time turned out to be futile, because they led to a logical circle: time was defined through concepts that explicitly or implicitly included temporal representations. However, this difficulty, when defining the concept of objective time, also does not arise.

Keywords:Objective time; functional time; subjective time; difficulties in determining the time; present time; past time; future.