>>9243010You could make a computer simulation where a simulated person measures time using a simulated atomic clock. Your simulation works just as well whether you actually use "time" (your computer's clock) to pace the simulation or just simulate all events relative to each other (line by line, as fast as your CPU can process them, no actual clock used).
This makes me think that real world actually works like that. Maybe there's no mystical 4th dimension that we call time and things just happen relative to each other. A long line of causes and effects, kinda like lines of computer code.
This would resolve things like "time's arrow", all those potential time travel paradoxes, etc.
It would also make the universe simpler. Removes an extra component that we cannot observe anyway. It also opens up new lines of investigation into stuff like "time dilation" (what is it, if there's no time? Maybe more "lines of code", or more interactions, when near higher energy?).
