stops everything happening at once?
2006-07-21 07:13:58 · 18 answers · asked by Joey 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
There is no generally agreed definition of time.
This is a moot point in religion and philosophy as well as science, but as your question is in the science section, I suppose the best answer is that time is the fourth dimension of the space time continuum. It appears to be different to the other dimensions, because it has only one direction. We can only move forward in time, and we have no control over the speed of movement.
You could look on the concept of dimension as a means of making sense of the universe that surrounds us, spatially and temporally. The first three dimensions deal in spatial location, the 4th in temporal location. If there wasn't any time I think the whole universe would collapse, I don't think everything would happen at once, I think everything would stop happening.
So I think time is more than a device, I guess I would regard it as a necessary abstraction of human thought.
2006-07-21 07:48:36 · answer #1 · answered by hi_patia 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Time Is On My Side And If I Want Everything To Stop With My Awesomeness And Time Being On My Side It Shall Stop
2006-07-21 07:24:53 · answer #2 · answered by Me!!! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
read about 12 strand DNA at www.crystallinks.com you will see that the human mind is capable of a much higher level of perception naturally(an ability which has been surpressed) then how we percieve things currently. its theorized that all things,past and future, are all happening simultaneously but our mind in its current condition must arrange these events in a linear manner to properly absorb them. as we move closer toward the end of the mayan calendar (2012) the paradigms will begin to shift and reconnect our soul to the divine cosmic energy and time will again be non existant.
2006-07-21 07:21:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I think it is. Time was invented to keep everything from happening all at once...things are bad enough...can you even imagine what we or anything else would be like if it was happening all at once????
2006-07-21 07:17:27 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do goldfish or plants have "temporal awareness"? If not, does time even exist for them? Maybe they have some totally different kind of awareness that we cannot even comprehend, and for them, that is the 4th dimension.
2006-07-21 07:18:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time is what keeps the world going
2006-07-21 07:15:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time only exists in the mind of people.
2006-07-21 07:15:13 · answer #7 · answered by chris42050 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, and its an invent of the media in order to make us buy clocks
2006-07-21 07:15:14 · answer #8 · answered by Angel Mass 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time is simply a measure of motion
2006-07-21 07:24:01 · answer #9 · answered by tspbrady 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
time is an invention of man that has become a cruel master
2006-07-21 07:18:31 · answer #10 · answered by enigma_variation 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋