If I drive my car through a corner slowly I’ll be fine. If I go fast, the car will skid off the road. All the materials are the same, the execution is the same. The only difference is over what amount of time this happens? The example is not important, the same goes for pretty much anything. Filling a bottle, ripping a sheet of paper..
I understand this from a intuitive perspective, but I wonder if someone can explain why time matters in physics in a simple way. What is the fundamental difference between doing something fast vs. slow.
I’m sure this is a silly question if you know some thermal dynamics or special relativity, but remember, I’m only 5!
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So seeing some other responses and you’re follow-ups to those, I think (but correct me if I’m wrong), that in distilling your question down to its simplest form, what you’re really asking is “why does time exist,” which is really another way of asking “why is the universe the way that it is.” Unfortunately, the answer to these kinds of questions is always we don’t know and it’s not a particularly useful question to ask because it doesn’t tell us anything. Things in the universe are time-dependent because time exists. That’s the best answer you can get.
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