i've hear that time travels and just goes on,but what direction does it got to? North,south,west or east?
2006-06-15 14:27:08 · 7 answers · asked by ◄ZΨΦИ► 2 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
i've hear that time travels and just goes on,but what direction does it got to? North,south,west or east?if there's no diretion? then why does everyone mention"in the direction of time" and many phraces like this.
2006-06-15 14:34:23 · update #1
Time travels in a direction that is impossible to imagine visually. The concepts of north, south, etc., have to do with a three dimentional world. Time is a fourth dimention though.
Here is a thought experiement that might help you to understand: Picture your lunch table at school. Your cell phone is sitting on top of it. Your buddy across the table wants to borrow it. Assuming you let him use it, you slide it across the table to him. Your phone just moved in a three dimentional environment. To understand how something moves across time, you only have to realize that whether the phone is moving in 3 dimentions or not, it is still moving in the fourth dimention of time. If it was not, then it would cease to exist the moment it stopped moving. The cell phone at the begining of the experiment was not moving in 3D, but was moving in 4D. It was there at one moment and was still there the next. If it ceased to move in 4D, then in the next moment, it would not be there because it would still be back in the previous moment.
So in conclusion, yes time travels, or rather we travel in it, but we do it in a direction that cannot be visualized by your standard three dimentional directions.
2006-06-21 08:44:01 · answer #1 · answered by Databit42 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Time itself is simply the present. What you are questioning relates to the measurement of time. Since we like to phrase our description of that measurement as 'from' one event 'to' another, the language of direction comes into the mix. Traveling in time is a weak construction without the considerations of relativity. True, if you went on a little journey at velocities approaching the speed of light, your friends would all age at a different rate, and when you returned, you would have apparently skipped some time. This would be traveling forward in time, yet there was only the present during the whole episode. The frames of reference were simply distorted from our experiential reference frame.
The true direction of time is possibly the need for energy to equilibrate in the Universe. Increasing entropy could be the engine that moves time forward. So that would mean time travels in the direction of increasing entropy. Or some other such rumination.
2006-06-15 15:43:33 · answer #2 · answered by Karman V 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time is the fourth dimension so directions like north and south are not applicable. It travels from past to present to future.
2006-06-15 16:14:58 · answer #3 · answered by Martin S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time travels in no direction at all.
2006-06-17 13:33:07 · answer #4 · answered by BelieverinGod 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that's a fee * time = distance problem. airplane A r * 2 = d1 airplane B (r + 2 hundred) * 2 = d2 d1 + d2 = 1100 and with assistance from substitution 2r + 2(r +2 hundred) = 1100 2r + 2r + 400 = 1100 4r = seven hundred r = one hundred seventy 5 mph that is the speed of airplane A airplane B = r + 2 hundred = one hundred seventy 5 + 2 hundred = 375 mph
2016-11-14 20:15:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time has no direction!
2006-06-15 14:30:40 · answer #6 · answered by SolMan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
forward
2006-06-15 14:30:16 · answer #7 · answered by Hashbrown 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋