Is time just based upon the amount of movement that can fit into a certain amount of space?

Question

Since you can only make a certain amount of movement in a certain amount of space, would'nt that be considered time.
Let's say I could tap my head 10 times in minute.
Then the next minute I taped my head 20 times in a minute.
But yet since a minute is just consired 1/60 of an hour every single day, should we really limit movement to the caluclations of what is consired a day.
Of course the earth can only move in so much of space reapeatdly in a circle.
That does mean that it is travel through time though, it means its traveling through space, yet we measure it as time that takes for the earth to complete orbit that is neccessary for it to complete.
Hence are'nt we living in a world with out time, just the caluclation of movement through space?
This could be why the past can not be visted from the future, because all the past really is considered to be is the movement which has already accompined a certain amount of space.

Yeah I can't spell when typing so fast,
what are you going to do ***** about it.

Hmmm.... I guess it is?

Answer 1

time is time. when they invented the atomic clock that tells time by the decay of radioactive isotopes or something like that. they put one in florida and one in denver colorado, years later they found that the clock in denver was slower than the one in florida showing that gravity affects time. In outer space you could travel faster than you could on earth but time would be slower. and you can't go into the past from the future because of what i call invincible grandma theory. If you went back in time and shot your grandma you would not exist to go back in time and shoot her so the bullet would have to pass right through her and not affect anything that would affect you travelling back in time. Unless your grandma was never your grandma b/c you shot who was supposed to be your grandma when you went back in time therefore after you shoot your grandma the color of your hair would change

Answer 2

Time doesn't exist.

Ok if you really want to think that hard about it, you mustn't confuse time with space or try to measure time with space.

We aren't measuring time in the way you think. This isn't a chicken and egg riddle.

"But yet since a minute is just consired 1/60 of an hour every single day, should we really limit movement to the caluclations of what is consired a day.That does mean that it is travel through time though, it means its traveling through space, yet we measure it as time that takes for the earth to complete orbit that is neccessary for it to complete."

1. Measurements of time are the common points of reference we have in order to be able to be able to communicate and co-operate with each other. We aren't measuring events in space, we're measuring events here on Earth. ie. 24 hours between sunrise to sunrise. A day is a periodic system which means we can regulate the things we do by it.

2. Even if you stand still you are still travelling through time, albeit travelling with the natural momentum of it. Our perception of time isn't based around our knowledge of our solar system, it's based around the simple changes which happen around us - sunrise, sunset= day and night, waxing and waning moon= a lunar month, equinox to equinox= 6months, after a third equinox a year (4 seasons) has passed. It has nothing to do with our knowledge of space, just equi-distant events that happen around us. We noticed these events thousands of years before turning our attention to space.

"Hence are'nt we living in a world with out time, just the caluclation of movement through space?"

3. No, time happens whether we calculate it or not or even if we don't perceive it. It really depends on whether we should think of time as a human mortal perception or as a dimension which exists as part of our Cosmos.

When human beings are deprived of light and the outside world and any point of reference which anchors them to a 24 hour day, they lose track of time and their body clocks don't know what to do. They end up living with 36 waking hours and 3.5 hours sleep or something equally odd and the average need for 8 hours sleep looks suspiciously like it is dependent on sunset and sunrise.

Time is something we live with, it's not so just because we calculate it to be so.

"This could be why the past can not be visted from the future, because all the past really is considered to be is the movement which has already accompined a certain amount of space."

4. We don't know if the past can or can't visit the past from the future so it's foolish to speculate in such a way as if it were a fact.

If you throw the spiritual possibilities in to the mix, time and space seem to be just an illusion and the very nature of our existence seems unreal.

Answer 3

Well time is a manmade measure that coincides more or less withthe movement of earth. I have heard of every so often in addition to leap days every fourth year, they have had leap seconds to keep the clocks in jive with the solar system. Show up late for a date and tell her no I'm not late I only tapped my hand so many times. Then tell me what comes of that theory.

The invincible gramma theory I like, she was the shortest one around after the grandchildren hit puberty, but no one messed with with gramma!

Answer 4

ok. but without time, how could there be movement? i don't think i'm really getting what you're saying. it seems like any sort of movement needs time. when we say an object "moves" we mean that it went from being in one location at time 1 to being in another location at time 2. without time, there would either be no movement or everything would happen immediately. neither of those are true.

sure our standards of time (day, hour, year, etc.) are based on regular movements through space. but those movements through space couldn't occur if some form of time didn;t already exist.

i have to admit, i don't know what level you're talking at, the shallow level or the deep level. the shallow sense of time is time as it is measured by humans, in which case you're obviously right, time is based on a calculation of movement. the deep level
of time is Time. the thing that our time measures; the thing that causes things to happen in a sequence instead of not happening at all or happening all simultaneously. On this level i don't think you can be right, because all movement presupposes Time, i think.

Answer 5

I'm not going to critisize your spelling,,, The Universe knows mine isn't always spot on.

The wonderful thing about Philosophy is that is isn't at all based on fact,,,as Science is. It's as interprative as religion or politics.

I assume you live in the real world, and deep thinking isn't a sin, but at some point,,,if you live at all by a clock,,,you will also either progress by one, and die by one.

To philosophize about Future, and/or dimensional differences that parallel US, is admirable, but not strictly productive, or evolutionary. Theories are designed,,,,naturally, to not only be disputed, but dissolved, and perhaps dismissed, in our evolution.

I have 60 minutes in every hour, to choose a path for myself. I can "waste it"???? If just the act of living can be wasteful,,, OR I can engage in every minute, as though it was my last, and accomplish all manner of tasks or thoughts. I know that BY A CLOCK, and by my own BODY clock, at some point I will need to refresh/reenergize, allowing me to go through the process again.

My friends know that I don't strictly live by a clock,,,in fact often not knowing what time or day it is,,, but My clock does exist,,,as a tangible,,, and loudly intrusive medium, I use, or am used by, to exist in this "Life"

Rev. Steven

Answer 6

after reading what you wrote three times....i am having a headache...because...something has no sense for me...i mean movement is affected by lots of other forces like gravity etc... the force of gravity again influenced by the mass of substance...so in this space there is a lot of interaction...so..a universe only with movement and space you say..strange...but you really have to prove that...I'm still thinkin about it...