what is time?

Question

do we truly understand time

Answer 1

time is life it self

Answer 2

There is something of a similarity between your question, and the old one about what is sound? You know, if a tree falls in the forest and there's nobody around to hear it, does it still make a sound. The answer, of course, is no, because "sound" doesn't exist per se. It requires a receiving mechanism through a "hearing device" which in our case is the human ear. Air movement creates "waves" which are received, transmitted to the brain and interpreted into what we perceive as a noise.
In the same way, Time does not exist per se unless it is can be "measured" as a span between related events. The only way we can really measure "cosmic time" is in terms of "light years"..... the distance that light travels at 186 thousand miles a second over a man-made span called a year.
So time is a man-designed measurement, using man-designed tools, and only really exists within the parameters of human perception. Time only exists as it relates to man's measuring devices. If man's brain isn't making those perceptions, then "time" has no meaning.
There isn' t any doubt in my mind that some day man will break through the barrier of the "Final Frontier" --- the speed of light --- and will be able to transmit himself through space without any time-measure at all. I think that will be the moment when we confront the real "Eternity"

Answer 3

Is the question rhetorical or redundant?
For if we understood time would it need to be asked
and if it need not be asked why would it be asked
If it was known why it was asked would it be known if it was the answer to why it was asked.
If the question is not a question but was a question plus a question then which question is a question but not questions
If the answer is independent of the question what validity could be assured for the veracity of the answer or would it be not an answer but a reply.
So if the answer is an answer is it dependant on the question maybe (arla Deep Thought) a better understanding of the question would be useful if not necessarey for a better answer.
But then would that be an answer, a better answer or the answer
So if you find the reply unsatisfactory maybe 1 could consider why.
then..........


BTW Time at 0K is in stasis
Isn't it.?

Answer 4

The only reality there is, was and ever will be is right now. Time is just an illusion the mind creates to try to link true reality with a temporal continuum into the past and future which are never realities outside of when they were or will be NOW.

Answer 5

Time is non-existent! BUT we make use "time" as unit of measurement.

If you consider all units of measurement and really understand what it is being used for, you can see that they too are non-existent, but merely a way we use to understand, compare or visualize size, length, etc.

Answer 6

TIME it just a matter of "numbers". You do not need to understand it as long as you can read what time it is that good enough.

Answer 7

Probably not. But it is the length of progress in which the earth makes 1 complete revolution.

Answer 8

Time can be accounted but it cannot be understood.Hindus personified time as 'KAALA PURUSHA" (time person).It has no beginning and end. All things take birth from the womb of time and disappear there itself. Veda describe God as" KAALATITA"
meaning beyond time.

Answer 9

Fourth dimension of the spatial continuum - everyone does understand it in his own way.

Answer 10

Time is a dimension. It is measured in seconds and other terms.

Answer 11

Time is an illusion. Lunch time is doubly so