Originally Posted By: Orac
So I guess the question I would ask if our universe wasn't here and only the higgs domain existed would time suddenly stop in the higgs domain?


If the Higgs domain exists, whether we can measure it or not, something exists. My original question was: would time exist if there was nothing else?

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This is the problem with the way you have posed the question because you can not prove or test for the "nothing exists state" because to answer that you have to know everything ... that is you have to be a god.


The question of whether or not one could prove that there was nothing is not really the point. The object of the question was to establish whether people regard time as something which has an existence of its own, if nothing else existed.

(https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blo...nt-d5d3dc850933).

Interesting article, if time is emergent, does that not imply that time is not fundamental? If it is not fundamental, surely it requires something to exist for it to be realised.

If I interpret that correctly, that seems to answer the question.

There never was nothing.