I got asked this question yesterday by one of my friends, and I honestly couldn't answer. So what is it? What is time? It is one of those things you rarely think about, but is so pertinent to our everday lives.
T = DM is a formula to calculate how much time it takes to move something a certain distance.
If something move 0 meters at a speed of 0 metres per minute, than the time it takes for it reach it is 0 seconds. That does not mean time stops. Just because a clock stops working, does not mean time stops. That is by far the dumbest statement I have ever heard regarding trying to stop time.
Time is susceptible to gravity and other forces like anything else. The density of time is also effected. So like if you saw someone get sucked into a black hole you would see the person getting sucked in in slow motion because the density of time in the gravitational field is lower than the time that isn't. So like 1 second for the person at the edge of the black hole could be months or years for everyone outside.
So time is relative to whatever is happening aroud you? Isn't there a statement that time flies when you are having fun? Could that be true? Could time actually go faster when you are having a good time than if you are playing a bad game with relatives you don't particularly like?
I would have to say that time is the sequence of events that has/is/will happen from point A to B. Time is just our word or idea to help explain that progression.
Time is the changing of molecules and whatnot
All this talk about molecules is confusing me. If I get it right, for time to exist, something has to be moving? If that's the case, then can that something be light, thoughts, emotions, or ancient texts? The ancient texts do not move per say, but their message is moving across the ages, and being read by the people of those ages.
Back to my point, the message of the texts is "moving" from point A (when it was written) and towards point B (wherever that is). I would consider this as a progression related to time.
I always find it interesting how a forum on an internet game site (AG) has the most interesting topics to discuss.
If you think about it, if nothing changed, than time could not go on. Time exists for change.
So if the area around me did not change for an hour and I suddenly moved, time would start moving again? If I walked out of my room and into the busy kitchen/dining room, would they be hours ahead of my room? Would the other side of the world be 12 hours ahead of us because we were sleeping the whole time?
Time is: a) something that stops all things from happening at once, which oddly enough is influenced by gravity. b) what happens when you put electricity in a clock.
Time is: a) something that stops all things from happening at once, which oddly enough is influenced by gravity. b) what happens when you put electricity in a clock.
I consider time a fourth dimension, following length, width, and height. The activity of the brain, like maybe playing a game or reading a book, makes time seem to go by faster, even though the same amount of time occurred while you might be sitting in bed, because there was less activity happening in your brain at that moment. Make sense?
I'd rather think it's your cognitive process receiving enough stimulation/not enough stimulation that makes your mind feel as if time is moving faster/slower, because we all know time is fixed and constant.
I consider time a fourth dimension, following length, width, and height. The activity of the brain, like maybe playing a game or reading a book, makes time seem to go by faster, even though the same amount of time occurred while you might be sitting in bed, because there was less activity happening in your brain at that moment. Make sense?
This is an interesting point - if we cannot acquire knowledge by any means except for the senses, then the essence time is unknowable, since we don't perceive it to pass at a constant rate - or it simply passes faster when we just happen to be having a good time or are sleeping - or it doesn't exist at all, it's just that we've been in this state for an instant, and we only think we know about time, because we have memories in our brain - or we're a brain-in-vat...
The theory was based the idea that the universe did not have a boundary, just as the earth does not have a boundary. For example, one may travel around the earth and not come to a boundary or fall off.
The theory was devised to overcome the complication of "What happened before the Big Bang?" Although now there is a general agreement that events before the Big Bang could not have significantly altered (or even affected) the "hase" of the Universe.
[/quote]I consider time a fourth dimension, following length, width, and height. The activity of the brain, like maybe playing a game or reading a book, makes time seem to go by faster, even though the same amount of time occurred while you might be sitting in bed, because there was less activity happening in your brain at that moment. Make sense?[quote]
definetley agreed i could not have put it any clearer myself
