What is time?
What is time?
Often the immediate concept that comes to mind is a clock, watch or a calendar, but what really is time?
This is perhaps a very confused subject and you often hear: “I have no time.”, “Time is money.”, “I need to be on time” and so on.
And for example the Einstein theory of relativity makes the subject for ordinary people just even more confused.
Let us assume time would stop, what would happen?
I tell you what would happen. Nothing would move. As “The illusion called time is composed of altering of the particles position in space” and “Alteration is the basic manifestation of time”. (L. Ron Hubbard, 1951)
Everything moves, all the time. Time is measered from instruments which from beginning comes from natural movements such as the sun and the planet as well as the moon.
Let us assume that suddenly something happens and the planet would circulate slower around its own axel. Let us say it would take 30 hours instead of 24.
Now to the key question, would you have more time?
Perhaps in the beginning that is what would be experienced. But I am pretty sure that after a month or two people still claim to not have enough time.
Imagine when you where a child and there was a lot of commotion and a lot of action. Life was fun and time appeared to be over before you even noticed it - mother coming and telling it was over. And it was always as it was most fun. This even though the child was gone for the whole afternoon.
Then imagine when you another day had to go and visit the old grandmother. It was boring and the time went very slow, very very slow.
Once when I was a kid and I had to tell my little brother - who had no concept of words such as hours, minutes and so on - that mam comes back in one hour. I told him: “Mother comes back after one ‘Donald Duck’” as Donald Duck cartoon last for one hour and he saw this each week, thus I assumed he would understand. But now to my point, the next hour of waiting for mam was probably experienced 10 times longer then the hour of cartoon. Does time then not have something to do with the person?
I know a person saying that she has no time to write a letter to me during the last months and I know a person (myself) who is working 80 hours a week but still makes it to write a novel.
What is the difference?
You create time by being effective. When you see something to be done, do it immedietly and work fast. Only then can you really say that you have more time. A person saying “I don’t have time to do X” is just saying the X is not considered a priority for this particular person - otherwise the person would organize himself in a way to get X done. My father told me a good counter-statement to somebody stating that they don’t have time: “Do you watch TV?” if the question is “yes”, then ok the person has time to do even more things.
Let us speculate as to what time really is.
Could you have time without a viewpoint? Certainly not. It has to be “viewed” and then an idea about it’s passing has to be created or “considered”.
Thus the viewpoint is the key ingradient and not so much “it” itself.
So we found the answer easy; time is what you consider it to be. “A consideration” as Mr. Hubbard writes, and that is all.
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I think time simply don’t exist, it is only a human based theory to explain something it doesn’t understand. Just like theologies.
TIME?? THIS IS VERY INTERESTING. “THE” REAL FINAL FRONTIER.
Some say that if/when time stops, then all motion stops too. There have been some fun stories and movies created by the concept of “what if time stopped for everybody but me”. And wormholes are big now on the SciFi channel. Stargate, Dr. Who, etc. I’ve always agreed with Pretty Myspace Layouts’ opinion that time is just something that humans made up to explain — well — time. But now I’m thinking it’s more than that. I don’t yet know what it is. Perhaps I never will. But it bothers me. And that’s probably good.
time is a measurement. simple as that.
people are all scietists nowadays and therefore have to measure everything.
the centimetre is a measurement too. not sure who invented that.
today can not be identified simply dy the date someone made up.
according to christians, the date is different to the chinese and so on.
my question is, what year is it really?
please reply
Is possible stop the things? yes., but not the time.
Time is the point of Creation. The future does not exist. Now is an imaginary point where the future can be changed by your free will. When you decide on what the future will be, you act. Once you act, the time has past, creation has happened, it is now real never to be changed. The past is post creation.
(time=being=creation)1 …………………….. This is us: …creation=being
(space=matter=energy)3 …….e=mc2……. same relation ship..the body.
(time=being=creation)3 ……… This is God: … creation=being x C2
(space=matter=energy)1 …….. universal divine memory…e=m..
http://unit-unity-community.com/cdstuf/what-is-time.htm
You may ignor this if you wish.
It will however outlive us all.
See you around.
John
Time = change; if there is no change then there is not time. It may be that time might elapse even if there is no change BUT there is absolutely no way to prove it because any evidence of time elapsing requires change. Also, time isn’t something we travel through; you don’t travel through change. Consequently, you cannot go back in time because you can have more change or less change or no change but you cannot have negative change. Besides, backwards time travel violates causality.
The Primary force is bipolar. In the one hand is gravity this is the hand that gives us space. A place for matter to be. With the other hand it gives us Continue this is the force/constant that is at the core of all that lives. It gives time. Time is what makes space volatile. Space without time is an unmoving solid.
Time is a place for a being to be.
The thought for the force gravity is “Bring all things together unto thyself.” This is the divine in space. Here there is only room for the one God.
The thought for the force continue is “Continue and let others continue as you must.” This is the thought to be home for a being.
When a being becomes so attached to the material world, They begin to respond to the thought for the material world “To bring all things together unto thyself.” When this happens to a being, that being will be forever attracted to the place that all material things must go. “The black hole” However when you arrive you will find that there is only room for the one God and you will be discarded as nothing of value. For all that is of value to the one God is responding to that word that is for all beings to continue.
There is a word for the thought of the material world when it is hosted by a being, it is “GREED”.
John.
Time is the presence of motion and forces. Time is due to expansion of space. Time is slow where expansion of space is slow like around large masses. As total motion and forces within a mass is a constant therefore when linear motion is increased then internal motion as well forces within that object slow which is then percieved as slowing of time.
Check this out: http://www.timephysics.com
Thanks
Mkhan
I profess a simple six words that explains time:
“Time is the Measurment of Motion.”
Respectfully,
Tom
i think that time is an illusion to which the human responce to life itself, needing structure and invalid of movement.
Of the comments to this point, Thomas said it best. It goes even beyond the measurement of motion. It is a made up concept. Time is something that people have invented for the purpose of simplistic organizational requirements. Science has to this point used time without really acknowledging what it really is. There is no time, there is only motion. Until this becomes acknowledged we will remain in a state of scientific infancy. No scientific measurement requires the usage of the concept of time. Everyone I tell that to tends to disagree with me, but it is simply because they don’t understand what time really is. Further explanation, worded more eloquently than I ever could have, can be found here:
http://rilo.org/TimeWillTell.html
There is no time, its purely a mental construct, its a movement of mind/thought there is only ever the present moment in which ideas of time arise, however there is change but all change happens in this very same moment ie this moment is always this moment ( this is not about being in the “Now” ,there only ever is , ever has been and ever will this moment).
“time is a straight plantation”- Jim Morrison
Hi
No one can feel time before minutes of his born,we feel it when we
see light and recognize mottion.So time is some thing relative to
observer.After die it will be constant and equal zero.
Time is an energy that transmit between two events in universe.
Time is a dimension that we travel in it with constant speed.
Hi
The most important thing that we should recognize is our ability to feel and measure time.This ability will be end at the moment of man death.
Although all atoms have there own movements which go continously
our own structures (man,plants,….) have the codes to analyze the time
depending of atoms time cycles.
We can see this clearly in plants life cycles.
In physics i think time is liquid accompanier to place and can only be detected by moving (absolute)
To all the people who are using Aristotle’s definition that time is a measurement of motion that cant be a working definition because its circular. All motion is a change of position with respect to time, so your really just using time to define time, which doesnt really work. and while yes it can be subjective does that mean it does not exist?
This is a circular argument. You can not define Time in terms of motion as motion is defined with time. According to the laws of physics motion is a displacement in space over time. so what you would be saying is that Time is a displacement is space over time. Time may be viewed as change. Or Perhaps there is no such thing as time, or atleast a time universal. Perhaps time only exists in the subconsiousness of life in order to explain decay and change. It could be that to the Universe (or God for those who are religious) the time it takes to get from point A to point B is trivial. If a mass moves from point A to point B in a day, it would hold the same change value as if it had taken a week. It would still have covered the same distance. And to a universe, or a God, to whom are not a slave to time, the duration or length of “time” the mass took to move would not be an issue. It is however an issue to us. We are not immortal. We have a concept of time becuase we are not eternal. We try to fit as much as possible into our lives. And with the greed and expectancies of life we are confined to measure our non-eternalness. We can thus see time pass but are incapable of explaining it. Touching on an old but favorable paradox: If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, did the tree ever really fall. Well according to physics the answer is indubitably yes, but existentially if went by unappreciated then what does it matter. If you were wipe all things that are slaved to time, such as all life, time would exist unappreciated and therefore it wouldnt really exist.
I’m with John Richarson and Tom on this for sure.
I have come to this conclusion that time is not a discovery but an invention by us humans for the purpose of measuring motion of things in space. The concept of time has become such an inseparable part of human psyche, human consciousness and so entrenched in our subconscious that has become impossible for us to deal with it as what it really is, a mere illusion. Time was invented to regulate and manage our daily activities just the way religion was invented to explain “supernatural” and unexplainable events that our ancestors witnessed. Time represents the ongoing and continuous change and reconfiguration of atoms in space. Any given configuration of atoms for, let’s say, an object in a given “time” is unique and cannot be repeated.
Time is a very big determinant factor in every activity that a person will perform. Therefore, your ability or inability to manage your time in life is a key factor in determining how successful and flourishing you may be. Time is how you live and perform your activities. People who manage their time never lack because they know what to do at any periodic interval.
a good examination on time.I believe that time is just a resource that people need to use in day to day living.