Would we live longer if you stopped all the clocks in the world?

Question

Ok, so say you stopped every clock in the world and then restarted them after a year you'd live a year longer wouldn't you?

Answer 1

Let me enlighten you.

Everything in nature that moves is a clock. Your heart is a clock.
A squirrel that runs up a tree is a clock, an atom that pulsates is a clock, a metronome is a clock, the waves that crash on the ocean shore are a clock. A clock that humans study is just a formalized and generally accepted way of tracking change in nature. So to answer your question, to stop time, we would basically have to stop everything in nature that moves or changes. If we did this the universe would come to a standstill, and then yes, definitely, we would live longer. But it would be no fun as everything would be in suspended animation.

Answer 2

No, clocks only measure time. Like, if you destroy all the scales in the world, that wouldn't make you slimmer. Now, if you travel from California to Australia, say, you go on Saturday, it's roughly a 15 hour flight but you'd arrive on Monday! So, maybe if you keep going west, you could live forever?

Answer 3

No. Clocks just measure the time, not control it. Just as if the whole world decided to decide the whole century again and tomorrow will be January 1st 2001. Or they decided 1 year would have 730 days instead of 365. The number of years might change, or the dates may change, but our life spans wouldn't.

Answer 4

The answer is no. Even if the clocks stopped working the body clock would keep going, the Earth would keep spinning on its axis and around the Sun and the moon would still orbit the Earth. Our solar system would still revolve with-in this galaxy called the milky way, this is what the clocks and calendars represent. Hope that was good enough for u.

Answer 5

Oh dear, call the authorities, someone has been putting drugs in the water again.
Clocks only reflect time, they do not govern it. However, if we stopped all the clocks and stopped being obsessed by time, it may certainly feel a little longer.

Answer 6

Only in "our time". The "true" time would still be the same either way, but since we can control what time we "say" it is, we can control how long we live, in that sense. But it is much like an author writing a story. While the acutal writing process for the author may last years; however in the actual time of the book, the story of the character may only last a few days.

Answer 7

If you include things like your heart, any periodic motion (which could be made into a clock), and so any motions of subatomic particles, then I guess time would have stopped, so the answer would be yes. But that is probably not what you meant, now is it?

Answer 8

I know this is a jokey question but how could it possibly work in this vain, self centred time on Earth anyway? You'd end up with all of us permanently frozen because of all the eejits who don't want to age and want to stay young forever.

Answer 9

You can stop all clocks but not ur body clock, Be assured nothing will change just by stopping clocks.

Answer 10

Yes, because people are to involved at what time something is happening at. People do homework, go out with friends and watch TV all on a schedule that is divided by time. Time helps keep us organized but I think that if we were free of time people would be happier and they would enjoy life more.