Time is by very definition linear

time is by very definition linear
prove me wrong

Time is whatever I want it to be.

Prove me wrong.

it's the measurements of events from past to present and then future, how exactly can this be represented by anything other than a straight line?

because time could just be a circle, and a circle is not a straight line. At least, not a continuous straight line

that's where i'm a little confused, what stops it from being a straight line with no beginning or end?

the discontinuity at the "end" that maps "end" back to "beginning".

Think about it like a clock (hh:mm:ss) that goes from 00:00:00 to 23:59:59 and then back to 00:00:00. You've got a linear progression through the different states of the clock, but there's nothing after 23:59:59, so it resets.

You might think that viewing time as cyclical is an anthropomorphic concept because we live on a rotating planet and use circular clocks to keep track of time, but that doesn't mean that the universe doesn't have cyclical time built into it as a matter of principle.

For example, one might hypothesize that the origin of the universe was at thermodynamic equilibrium. Then, after a spontaneous breaking of symmetry, that equilibrium was disturbed and the universe began to evolve. However, the end-state of the universe should also be thermodynamic equilibrium (heat death) and at that point the universe will have essentially reset itself. It won't be as dense as it was before, but it will be uniformly dense again.

If you built a clock that measured time by calculating the current average density of the universe, the hand would begin at one state called uniform density, leave that state, cycle through some different ones, and then eventually return to it's initial configuration: uniform density.

Take DMT and get back to me

maybe i'm not being clear by what i mean by time
i know that how we measure it is a construct but i mean moment to moment existence
everything happening now is a result of everything that's happened in the past, a constant chain of cause and effect
i can't think of anything that can occur as a result of something in the future or that isn't the result of the past

what am i missing here?
for example i can't think of anything

Time doesn't exist. Time is solely a human contstruct used to track each other. 'Time' is a measuring stick, it doesn't actually exist. We live in the eternal present. Everything exists in the present. Time is us trying to put our own hubris into play next to the laws of of physics and the rest of the physical universe. But it is not actually quantifiable in any real form.

The concept of time just proves to me that as a species we are still arrogant and primitive. We'd make much more advances in knowledge if we just went back to the drawing board on basic concepts every once in a while instead of pretending we know how everything works and repressing progress by repressing the most important question a scientist or budding scientist can have "why?". Too many swear by ignorance because the status quo is set and established when really there a lot of base principles that we are wasting our centuries indoctrinating people into believing we know shit.

Before you get out of high school or for that matter middle/primary we should be taught a list of things we don't know everything about to inspire curiosity in young minds to study and create new theories and find new answers.

There's no such thing as a stupid question as every inquiry takes us closer to knowledge. There's ignorance in the concept "we already know". There's people that literally believe that we are at the peak of realistic human achievement and knowledge because they've been conditioned by the scientific community to believe such a thing. The pseudo-superierity mindset many scientists have actually end up holding us back by censoring and neglecting any path straying from their own base knowledge.

Don't know how I got off Time but it doesn't exist.

Did you think you were being interesting when you wrote this drivel?