What is TIME?

Question

This is perhaps one of the most perplexing PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS...

Answer 1

There are two answers:

To a physicist, time is the universal constant of entropic decay; the rate at which everything in the universe is losing energy towards the point of final heat-death. An objective, measurable characteristic of the universe.

To the poet, time is our awareness (or absence of it) of the physicist's time. A subjective, variable and personal experience.

Answer 2

A very very relative thing.. that is why it is one of the most perplexing of all the philosophical questions !
The true meaning would reveal itself only with experience of it , by deepening the perception beyond sense organs !

Answer 3

Transtemporal ontogenesis apears to be a necessary factor in the theoretical culmination of the inductively reciprocal transformation: also called TIME. The materialistically unlikely, yet, deductively inevitable status quo, where reality creates itself via a Piccardian "make it so".

purposeless entails divergence, while the word purposeful entails convergence, as in a constructive sequence of "if-then" statements in a deductive sequence.

Consciousness cannot arise from materialistic interactions but rather the material manifestations are the perceptions OF consciousness.

Perception operates in accordance with the laws of causality, where the results of intentionality become causality. In other words, causality cannot be a statistical fluke that keeps maintaining order and regularity in defiance of the concept of randomness, because the very idea of randomness entails divergence with no real "purpose".

That is to say, the succession of causal events exist as an ordered framework consisting of past/ancestral events, which appear to constrain[as determined by natural laws] all future/descendant events.

Time is also necessarily defined as an ordered relation, entailing convergence. Consciousness entails intentionality and intentionality entails causality.

The material universe is necessarily a consequence of consciousness.

Answer 4

Are asking about Chronological time or psychological time? Chronological time is The movement of earth around the sun, the growth and decay of organism, the distance from here to there.
Psychological time is the separation or interpretation of our confused mind about the past, the present and the future.
Chronological time is real and factual.
Psychological time about the past and future is memory and this is not true at the now moment.

Answer 5

It is the denominator in the constancy of Creation. .. Creation is consistant. .. Space and Time changes OR stops ,, such that Creation must prove .. consistant. Refer Michealson-Morley's null results.

,, Creation is superbly constant , and relies on only one constant ,, the speed of Light and nothing else. And the rules are amazingly rigid.

By virtue that you cannot test this ,, Michealson-Morley null result ,, is because you cannot isolate space distance from time ,, by virtue that space is time. Space time is a rate which IS the constant. And that if E=mc2 then energy is matter through the conversion currency of c2 ,, thereby matter IS energy. Thereby space time energy matter is a continuum. In effect the secrets of Creation is its spartan simplicity that God could start just anywhere and get this all at once. In that ether OR aether (or ether time) is the same stuff as matter and substance. As the Bible says ,, all in one stroke that Creation came to be ,, but , Science decrypts His work , and if I may bid , it is the scientist who knows Him better than believers. Or so , is the trend , today.

Refer "pair creation" .. OR pair production ,, a noticible phenomena.

,, The stuff of Creation is not in conventional "acquired" substance ,, in that it is not a mechanical "gain" that makes Creation ,, and that time-stuff ,, but , debt. As in owing.

It is a mechanical "debt" that makes Creation ,, as in pair product , being the product of pulling nothing apart. Thereby if we re-concile this debt ,, we return to the Creator by collapsing to "nothingness" ,, the Void. Matter ,, anti-matter anhilation is this debt clearing in the miniscule.

The moment we don't owe God anything ,, we stop to exist.

If you are going to research this ,, see also Lorentz-Fritzgerald's contraction , Ilya Prigogine's irrevesible time , Hawking's event horizon.

Also Zigler's light-clock

This is the phylosophical reading of quantum facts ,, in as close as a calculus entity(quantum) can be a fact.

Calculus calculates to a domain as opposed to simple order algebra that calculates to a point. (philosophy?)

Have a nice day.

Answer 6

Time is something which is there from the beginning and which will last till end. It is something which is good for some and bad for other, though being a single thing. It is something which is continuously running away. In humans life the more it passes the less it remains.

Answer 7

Nothing. Just like the invisible friend a little child has. He feels comforted by thinking it is there, but in actuality, it is nothing, as we 'grown ups' know. Similarly, an evolved being knows that time is nothing. Everything is fused. Everything is one. That is the way of the Tao.

Answer 8

Time is the tool we use to measure the duration of any given event in the physical world.
If you read Einsteins thesis on realitivity you will see that time is realitive to speed and mass.
A clock traveling on a supersonic jet will tick fractions of a second slower than one traveling on a bus or train.
A human being traveling at speeds close to the spped of light will actually age much slower than a stationary person.

It's difficult to understand, so I suggest you read up on physics.
There are books on physics that are written in layman's terms which should be of help to you.

Answer 9

Some say time is an interval between two events (A and B). Augustine of Hippo defined time as distentio animi. He also claimed that he knew the nature of time, until someone asked him about the nature of time.

Answer 10

I understand some scientist now say even time came from the big bang. Time,unconditional love,humility,light,silence are some of the more easily seen forms of GOD. GOD is much more ethereal than these manifestations,time only exists in human consciousness,transcend your mind and experience this.