I believe that there is no "Time", everything just is, and as it ages, it corrodes or withers or dies. But the actual "Time" does not exist! Without watches and calendars, what is time, isn't it just things in existence aging?
2006-08-08 08:54:58 · 14 answers · asked by will2succeed 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Time and Age are both non-existent, they both rely on each other and are both inanimately nonexistant, so they cancel each other out. Time is an abstract mathematical equation used to personify the passing of solar cycles and events. Age is how long an object has been existing in time. I hope that I helped!
2006-08-08 09:01:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
As with many things, you are right and wrong.
First, the right part. The sum of all energy in our universe, were it all to be reduced to its lowest form, everything would become one-dimensional electromagnetic energy. At this point there would be no time. There would be nothing existing whose movement value in one-direction was less than the speed of time, "c". In this sense time would not exist. Even now, all creation is one-dimensional, but has the "appearance" of three, due to energy forming an extra two dimensions through the formation of electrons.
Now the wrong part. Physical time is a velocity. This velocity forming mass exists, and we may not escape from the moving of present time, into that of becoming the past. Were physical time not to exist, there would be no past, present, and future.
There is a paper, "What is Time?" http://360.yahoo.com/noddarc. It may be of interest to you.
2006-08-08 19:40:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time is fourth dimension, and is as real as the other three. Rather than thinking of yourself as six feet tall and 180 pounds, think of yourself as a six by 180 by _____, where the blank is the time, so you would have a long, snake-like dimension to yourself that represents you from infancy to now, that will end when you die.
In martial arts, time and distance are so related that they can almost be used as the same word.
In astronomy, this is also true--if you want to see older galaxies and you assume they all came from the big bang, you look at ones that are further away. While they are the same age as us, the light reaching us has taken time to get here, so looking at distant sky objects is like using a window through time.
2006-08-08 16:07:16 · answer #3 · answered by wayfaroutthere 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Really spot on answers. I won't reiterate, just nod with a grin and add some wise words that give the point some punch.
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
2006-08-09 00:09:08 · answer #4 · answered by **0_o** 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I believe you are correct. The concept of time is created by humans. Animals have little if any awareness of this. A clock or calendar means absolutely nothing to them. I actually believe that my dogs have a built in clock that they are not aware of. They have their own little schedule and somehow they follow it like clockwork without ever seeing a clock. Only God knows how they know at around 5:30 every night it is time for a walk. Even when the sun is in a differnet position or i have changed my schedule a little bit, somehow they KNOW that 5:30 is walk time. Without being able to measure time.
2006-08-08 16:01:26 · answer #5 · answered by bootstrap 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time exists just like any other dimension in space: there's up/down, left/right, forward/backward, and future/past. We can't travel into the past, but if we didn't travel into the future then physical processes couldn't happen (aging couldn't happen). Besides, we can slow time down in a laboratory (seriously). It therefore has to exist since it is a dynamic quantity.
2006-08-08 16:01:03 · answer #6 · answered by Davon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Einstein would totally agree with you. Time is strictly a human concept used to separate events. There is no Cosmic Master Clock ticking away against which all other clocks need to be calibrated.
2006-08-08 15:59:45 · answer #7 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time is the fourth dimension. Age is a measure of your personal time of existence.
2006-08-08 15:59:37 · answer #8 · answered by John Luke 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you, time is a construct of man based on his frame of reference. If we lived on a planet like Saturn our day, month and year would be much different than our standard "earth time".
The universe cares not for this thing called time!
2006-08-08 15:59:58 · answer #9 · answered by jeepfaust 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suggest you read "The End of Time" By Julian Barbour
" ... time is an illusion.
The phenomena from which
we deduce its existence are real,
but we interpret them wrongly." Julian Barbour
2006-08-08 16:00:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋