Is time really a concept that is uncomprehedable?

Question

Think of use of the terms generations, decades, and centuries, and the member of your family that has lived through them.

Answer 1

Time is really comprehended in terms of the individual. Since we all interpret time in about the same way, based on 24 hour earth rotations and 75 year life spans, then we all share the same concept of time. If days lasted 400 hours and people lived 1000 years, then we would all have the same perception of time only it would be different from the way we perceive it now. Time is perfectly comprehend-able and that's why we have terms like the ones you mentioned... it's just relative.

Answer 2

The question is whether time is a concept or a real entity.

If time were a concept, it is then just a convenient reference counter that we use to synchronize and track our activities.

However, if time were real, just like mass, distance and energy that we are more familiar with, then it should be something that we could more easily comprehend.

Well if we look at Einstein's famous equation,

e = mc^2

By rearranging it and taking c = distance/time, we get,

energy = mass (distance/time)^2

time^2 = mass * distance^2 / energy

We get an expression that tells us something about time as a function of mass, distance and energy. This seems to hint that time is indeed a real entity of matter.

Further if we solve for time in the equation above, we would get a positive and a negative value of time. However, in our experience with time, we always sense it as moving forward only (positive) and never experience time moving backwards (negative).

Time is probably an entity that we had become accustomed to under the conditions that we lived in that seems pretty constant. However, when we move near the speed of light, our notion of Time may become very different from our everyday experience of it.

So, Time can be as easy to understand as a common reference or as difficult to understand as a real entity of nature that challenges our everyday notion of it.

Take your pick.

Answer 3

The concept of time is merely a convenient means of measurement. This should be very easy to comprehend. It gets fuzzy when we start thinking of the past and the future as "places" instead of references of time-gone-by and time-to-come. The idiotic talk of time travel and the warping and bending of time totally distorts the simple concept of time. Look, the past no longer exists. The future does not exist yet. You cannot travel somewhere that does not exist. (Sorry Einstein and Hawkins, you are wrong) Wherever you are, it will always be the present. Always been that way, always will be.

Answer 4

time is simply a measurement of events. it's not a concept. we divided up the units and gave them names to make it a little less chaotic.

man has been telling time since long before the beautiful little swatch baby-g came into existence..

Answer 5

No, time is easily understandable. I do believe, though, that it is simply a man-made concept to help us to measure our lives.

After we die, there will really be no concept of time. In the spiritual realm, there is no need of "time".

Answer 6

It has to be compared to something and is really an abstract concept

Answer 7

time is comprehendable if you realize that it can only be measured once it is over,, for instance, how long did he live? well, we cant tell ya till he dies,,,,,that is why you live your life to the fullest every day

Answer 8

Yeah. I'm always running late. I can never stick to a schedule.

Answer 9

yup

Answer 10

Yes, it is..... unless ur a clock.