does anybody know what time really is?

Answer 1

Does anybody really care?
If so I can't imagine why.

Answer 2

COMPREHENDING TIME IS A MUST FOE ME

Gen.1:1,2 [ All exist here and this is time ];
Gen.1:3-25;
This is time, the earth is being prepared for animals from water in age 5, dust in age 6.
Gen.1:26; World time.
Adam was created, this begans the world of humankind on earth.
1Thes.4:1-9,21; World time.
Times and seasons of mankind is to be known.
Rev.17:10-14; World time.
World history is supposed to be known by humankind.
Empire #1 to #5 Greece is fallen, Roman Empire #6 is time of Jesus crucifixion, resurrection and ascension. John was on Patmos about 100 years later. Empire #7 will end after full term, but the 8th has a short time for Satan to end the world existing from Eden to Rev.20:106 [ No Satan ];

Matt.24:3,7,14,15,22,34,36-38 [ Only God knows day and hour Eden world ends ];

Eph 2:7; 3:21; The world with Jesus is without end.

Rev.20:1-6 [ No Satan ]; The 1000 year reign of Christ ];

2Pet.3:13 [ There will be a new heavens and a new earth, the life sustaining earth was lost in the flood, it involved the heavens and must be made life sustaining for humanking again ]; Rev.21:1-5;

Answer 3

Dear Tingler

Your question is one that very difficult. philosophers, theologians and the average person have wrestled with almost since man could reason. The answer to your question is both "yes" and "no".

On a superficial level, almost everyone looks at a clock several times a day to see what time it is. On that level "yes" we know it will be an hour till supper.

If you talk to a physicist he will tell you something like this "According to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, time is the fourth dimension in the Matter-energy, Space, Time Continuum. Time is the link between Matter and Energy and is symbolized by the equation E=mc² where "E" means energy, "m" means matter, and "c" is the speed of light. Speed is defined as the time it takes to go a certain distance. If you think this is confusing, Einstein's General Theory of Relativity talks about time warping and when it does this it produces gravity.

Enough of physics. In reality except on that superficial level, nobody knows exactly what time is. Something that I have come to believe over the years is that Eternity is not the same as endless time. I thought about this a lot when I took Physics in university.

This is where we are going to get into some deep water, so bear with me. Time is often refered to as a line. A line is only one dimemsional. Our physical bodies are moving along that time line. Our bodies have no choice. Our Intellect and our spirit can move outside that one dimensional line That part of us is in what i call "Two Dimensional Time" In this time we can move ahead or go back in time. We can even move off the timeline altogether. This is much better than being stuck on the time line. It is like being on a two dimensional plane, or creating a drawing on a piece of paper.

This is where our body and out mind hit their limit.. The body is in one dimential time, intellect is in two dimensional time.

Eternity is being in three dimensional time. I cannot explain what this is but I will try. In one dimensional time there is only the mechanics of life. In two dimensional time it is as though we are making a painting; much, much broader than a string. Eternity is like forming sculpture. so much better than a painting.

I hope this helps more than it confuses.

My one dimensional body says it is time to go to bed.

God bless

Bryan

Answer 4

Time is the passage to the end. Sense our life started with a "beginning" as everything does, then sure there should be an end, as everything does. Nothing in our life looks or seems to be eternal. Sure time is a decision by God that we must pass throw a sequence of stages and according to it we will be judged to see if we are acting good in that given time or not.

Life is a test, and every test have a "time limit" just because of this we have time, so that we don't drop it and say "let it be later" sense if it was not so, there will be no later!

Answer 5

From the book, The Enduring Past, copy right, 1964, by John Trueman, M. A., Ph.D., Professor of History and Assistant Dean of Arts, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. Page 3.
The First Civilizations.
Did your grandfather know Julius Caesar? The question, you say, is absurd -- yet when you were in Grade 2 you might of taken it quite seriously. Since that time you have learned a great deal about the measurment of time and can clearly distinguish between the present and the near and distant past. It is this knowlege of the passage of time on which you must draw for an intelligent study of history. If your view of human history is to consist of more than a series of isolated snapshots, if it is to become a living moving picture, then you must have some time scale by which to measure past events.

1/A DAY IS A THOUSAND YEARS

Here is a Canadian scientist's way of looking at the passage of time. He fits thousands of years into a week, beginning on Sunday, January 1st.

Let us imagine that our human time scale can be compressed so that one day represents 1000 years. Thus our scientific history is written over a period of one week beginning on Sunday morning, representing 5000 B.C. Throughout all day Sunday, Monday and part of Tuesday no progress is evident. . . . By late Tuesday evening some stone and timber buildings are evident and the Pyramids have been built using human power. Bronze tools are being used on Wednesday and oxen are pulling wheeled carts. Iron tools, hardened by tempering, are ready Thursday. Some canals and reservoirs have been constructed and by nightfall an alphabet has been invented to simplify communication.
Friday morning geometry has been exploited to make accurate land surveys. The screw and pulley have been invented and the Romans are building aqueducts and highways. . . On this same Friday the stone arch construction is becoming evident in large bridges, palaces and cathedrals. . . .
Saturday the acceleration is apparent. Algebra and trigonometry are available as scientific tools. Magnetism has been discovered; alchemy is flourishing and cast iron is being produced in quantity; sizable boats are being built and the invention of the magnetic compass is of great importance to thier navigation. But it is only on Sunday that things really start to happen. Just before midnight Saturday, an Italian sea captain had his western trip to Asia interrupted by America and by 3 a.m. mass migration was under way. The steam engine was invented at 7 a.m. and immediately applied to land and sea transport. The Bessemer converter announced at 9 a.m. made large quantities of steel available, followed quickly by Portland cement, rubber, and petroleum. Cheap aluminum was available by 9:30, man flew in an aeroplane before 10, Lindbergh landed in Paris at 10:25, supersonic flights were common by 11 and the first artificial satellites were in the sky before lunch.

Answer 6

Albert Einstein had an idea what time is. And no, it's not man-made. In the physics theory called Special Relativity time is an aspect or component of something that physicists call space-time. In this theory time began when space began -- at the big bang. There was no time or space before the big bang, at least not in this universe. I know it sounds wacky but Stephen Hawkings is probably the most respected theoretical physicist in the world and when people ask him what happened before the big bang he tells them it's an illogical question because time didn't exist before the big bang.

Answer 7

No.

But since you asked... I've read that time is the scientific laws of thermodynamics in effect - in other words, the universe tends towards greater disorder and chaos - which is why you'll never see an egg "unbreak" itself.

Answer 8

Time is for Redemption of Man
It is always Now or Today

Answer 9

Wow. The "Best Answer" for Ms-trustme's similar question was great. I couldn't have wrote it better.

Answer 10

I asked a similar question on whether the concept of "time" was man-made:


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