2006-12-27 04:05:42 · 18 answers · asked by Kyle W 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
time is definetly not a life .I't does exsit,just more like a "subject",really.
2006-12-27 04:07:53 · answer #1 · answered by ~*meli$sa*~ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Time most certainly exists.
As a word, we have defined it, and it exists.
As a concept, people experience the concept constantly, and often ask about it or wish there was more of it.
As a real "thing", well, you can't have a "time", though you can measure a small portion of it.
Time is really what we define it: A way of keeping track of what happened before what, what caused what, or what we can no longer in any way change.
Presumably, in the case of time, each infintessimal piece of it is identical to each other piece and likewise to the whole, and thus experiencing the smallest part is exactly like experiencing the whole.
The passage of time is something that can be understood in various ways, something that all of mankind has struggled with, and something that will never be complete so long as there is something to mark its passage.
Does time still exist, or has any time passed, if two "moments in time" are associated with two worlds which are identical to each other and if all moments between them are likewise identical to these end points?
2006-12-27 04:15:56 · answer #2 · answered by Robbie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Einstein said that time is just two things happening at once. The minute hand of the clock coincides with the rising of the sun. We humans love to put everything into nice little units.
If you ever wonder about the absoluteness or reletivity of time, look at the old train schedules from the early 19th century. Every city had invented their own "time zone", and the idea of a universal synchronized time system wasn't around.
2006-12-27 06:04:13 · answer #3 · answered by sixgun 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would have to say that time does not exist, but it is in no way a paradox. Time is a constraint created by man. Instead of doing something when it comes in the natural order of your life, time dictates when you have to start and when you have to end. Life would be a lot easier without the obstacle of time, but, simultaneously, there would be almost no order to the actions individuals take.
2006-12-27 04:40:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Time does exist; time is indeed the rythm of patterns; the patterns of the solar system and of cosmic bodies and the other planets. If one planet get knocks off the solar system, we'll go a little faster for example, if the planet closer to the sun, Mercury will get sucked into the sun, they'll have to change Daylight Savings Time into Yearly Savings Time. Another example is if we go to another planet, time will be different because the rate they travel across the sun is longer; we're going at a slower speed because we're further away. God designed time to be based on the rythm and patterns of something.
2006-12-27 05:17:44 · answer #5 · answered by Dimples 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Space as well as time are the dimensions of this universe. The universe itself has started from zero dimension and as time goes on, it is acquiring more and more space.... in other words uniformly expanding across the time and space dimensions. Because it has come from a state of zero dimension, it can be said to be an illusion rather than a real existence.
2006-12-27 04:13:43 · answer #6 · answered by small 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This seems to go beyond how man came to be. As a Christian I believe that God created us, and God himself has no beginning and no end. So then time becomes a man-made concept. Should you believe in the big-bang theory, or the like, then time is still not such a certainty. If not for us humans being in existence, what purpose would time really serve? I do believe that it is a man-made concept.
2006-12-27 04:18:35 · answer #7 · answered by Diesel Weasel 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Time is a charistic of existance along with height, width , depth composition & location. Time tells when something existed or happened. Without time you would be saying nothing ever happened and that the universe was stagnant.
2006-12-27 04:15:13 · answer #8 · answered by thomas 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You wear a watch don't you ? You show up to work on time don't
you ? Of course time exists. Man discovered time. He didn't create it.
2006-12-27 04:13:02 · answer #9 · answered by mrgogee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time has existed since the Big Bang. Before that, there was nothing, everything exists SINCE (hence, "time") the Big Bang.
Time is useful, it keeps everything from happening all at once.
2006-12-27 04:11:41 · answer #10 · answered by john S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time does exist, just as height, width, and length exist. It is a physical dimension in our universe. It is one of the dimensions of space-time.
2006-12-27 04:14:53 · answer #11 · answered by CrackityJones_83 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋