what is time?

Answer 1

"Time is too fast for those who run.. too slow for those who walk.. but for those who love.. time is not.".. hope i got it right..lol

Answer 2

Time has long been a major subject of philosophy, art, poetry, and science. There are widely divergent views about its meaning; hence it is difficult to provide an uncontroversial definition of time. Scholars disagree on whether time itself can be measured or is itself part of the measuring system. Many fields use an operational definition in which the only definition attempted is that of the units used.

The measurement of time has also occupied scientists and technologists, and was a prime motivation in astronomy. Time is also a matter of significant social importance, having economic value ("time is money") as well as personal value, due to an awareness of the limited time in each day and in our lives. Units of time have been agreed upon to quantify the duration of events and the intervals between them. Regularly recurring events and objects with apparent periodic motion have long served as standards for units of time. Examples are the apparent motion of the sun across the sky, the phases of the moon, and the swing of a pendulum.

Time has historically been closely related with space, most obviously with spacetime in Einstein's General Relativity.

Answer 3

Time is of the essence...or it's about time....

Seriously though, here's your answer (Quoted):

Time has long been a major subject of philosophy, art, poetry, and science. There are widely divergent views about its meaning; hence it is difficult to provide an uncontroversial definition of time. Scholars disagree on whether time itself can be measured or is itself part of the measuring system. Many fields use an operational definition in which the only definition attempted is that of the units used.

The measurement of time has also occupied scientists and technologists, and was a prime motivation in astronomy. Time is also a matter of significant social importance, having economic value ("time is money") as well as personal value, due to an awareness of the limited time in each day and in our lives. Units of time have been agreed upon to quantify the duration of events and the intervals between them. Regularly recurring events and objects with apparent periodic motion have long served as standards for units of time. Examples are the apparent motion of the sun across the sky, the phases of the moon, and the swing of a pendulum.

Time has historically been closely related with space, most obviously with spacetime in Einstein's General Relativity.

Answer 4

Time is a physical dimension which is consequential measure of sequential change between two moments. Actually time allows a moment to happen.Time is related with movement of Earth w.r.t. Sun and its movement about it's own axis.. A complete round around the Sun is measured as a YEAR and about it's axis is measured as a DAY. There are 365 days in a year. A day is also sub-divided in 24 parts,each part is called an HOUR.
An hour is divided in to 60 part s each is called a MINUTE and a minute is also divided in to 60 parts known as SECONDS.

Answer 5

It is the forth dimension that we experience and the means by which we perceive movement through height, width, and length. Time can be traveled though just like space but only in one direction (forward). Time can be slowed down, sped up, and warped. Time is relative to different observers. The order of some events can be mixed up according to different observers. For example, to one observer event A and event B occur at the same time, to another observer event A can occur before event B, to a third observer event B could occur before event A. This only happens to events that occur in places and times in which light from one cannot reach the other before the other occurs and vice versa.

Answer 6

Your question directly addresses many of the misconceptions motivating the questions posted here. I like that.

First, our everyday use of the language tends to cloud our understanding of things we experience. I try to avoid that problem by trying to write (and think) in the active voice and by avoiding the word "is" in all forms and tenses.

So, I'll answer your question with a few statements.

1. We observe our environment in countless physical states.

2. We perceive a progression in these states - a correlation between separate states.

3. We call that progression 'time' and experience it as a dimension inseparable from the concept of distance (space).

I hope this helps.

Answer 7

an instance or single occasion for some event; "this time he succeeded"; "he called four times"; "he could do ten at a clip"
an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities); "he waited a long time"; "the time of year for planting"; "he was a great actor is his time"
a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something; "take time to smell the roses"; "I didn't have time to finish"; "it took more than half my time"
a suitable moment; "it is time to go"
the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
clock time: the time as given by a clock; "do you know what time it is?"; "the time is 10 o'clock"
clock: measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time; "he clocked the runners"
fourth dimension: the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event
assign a time for an activity or event; "The candidate carefully timed his appearance at the disaster scene"
a person's experience on a particular occasion; "he had a time holding back the tears"; "they had a good time together"
set the speed, duration, or execution of; "we time the process to manufacture our cars very precisely"
meter: rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
regulate or set the time of; "time the clock"
prison term: the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned; "he served a prison term of 15 months"; "his sentence was 5 to 10 years"; "he is doing time in the county jail"
adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time; "The good player times his swing so as to hit the ball squarely"

Answer 8

Of course time seems to change from point of interest to point of interest. But physical time is a velocity. Here's how it works in our universe.

There must be a common factor that all clocks are able to relate to in a common manner. The movement of our planet about the sun (sidereal time) has to be comparable to that of atomic clocks. There must be a common condition or value that each relates to, in order to have a value of time that each measures the same but in its own way.

The common value that all clocks measure is the speed of light, "c". The reason this is able to be done is that all mass and energy forms have as their basis this value. In the physical world it comes into being by electrons being formed of electromagnetic energy, then these values being formed into neutrons and protons. Even though the electron, and all forms of mass made up of them, appear to be stable and stationary, that great speed of "c" is maintained in form of three dimensions by the frequency overlapping itself, thus forming a standing wave in a very small location.

The reality of our world being composed of electromagnetic energy is evidenced in a speeding spaceship. As it accelerates, that which causes it to have the ability to move is an increased frequency in a particular direction. This causes a proportional frequency decrease at right angles to its movement. Moving mass does not gain mass in order to accelerate, it transfers frequency from within to a single direction.

There are some basic thoughts concerning what physical time is. I'll list them and describe what they mean.

c2=E/m, describes a field of physical time. It is also what forms a gravitational field. The force of gravity is an energy form and is brought about by a mass/energy relationship.

hf = E, describes time as an energy source in form of electromagnetic energy (photon). As the "f" frequency increases so do the lines of energy in a given distance. The greater the lines of frequency, the greater the energy involved.

hf = mk, is that of kinetic energy. Kinetic energy is electromagnetic energy that has greater line density in a particular direction, which causes mass to move. Were a mass to acccelerate to the speed of light, physical time would have no more meaning to that mass, because it would, itself, become the value all other clocks relate to. Time would cease to exist.

hf = c, is the lowest form of energy that we know of as time. It has a value that may be that of "h" Phanks constant. "c", again, is what the value of our gravitational is.

Then, lastly, we ourselves are composed of physical time. That is why it is said, that were we to move at the speed of light, time would cease. This is true. We would then become the physical constant all other masses measure each other against.

Answer 9

Time is Lifes counter

Answer 10

An interval, especially a span of years, marked by similar events, conditions, or phenomena; an era.

Answer 11

"A nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future."

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