2007-02-16 20:27:03 · 12 answers · asked by Stef 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
It's a concept.
You cannot 'measure time' you can only determine intervals between Events using an arbitary unit called the second (and multiples thereof).
If there were no Events then the concept of Time would be meaningless. That should silence the "what happened before the Big Bang" brigade.
You cannot pick up a piece of Time or examine it in any way to determine its properties.
We cannot possibly conceive of the largest or smallest units of time so you can't measure those.
You cannot see the beginning or end of it (please don't give me any metaphysical 'eternity' or 'infinity'crap). Because the Big Bang is only a theory we can't say that it was the start of Time. It may have been, but (to mis-quote Patric Moore) "We Just Don't Know".
Therefore Time as an entity doesn't exist. It's just a mathematical construct so that us humans can give some order to the Universe and the Events that happen therein.
Similar arguments apply to Distance. What's the longest or shortest length that you can imagine?
So, Time and Distance have no Real existence.
As you are undoubtedly a 3 dimensional being who took "time" to write your question now you know that you have no dimensions and couldn't have spent what doesn't exist writing your question.
Why am I answering it when it doesn't exist?
10 points please?
2007-02-18 03:00:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a human concept in the sense of the units we use to measure it, but even if we didn't think about it time would still exist and be present. To be ignorant something is not to say that it doesn't exist.
Also, as far as we know it is linear. You can't travel through points in time. If this is so, then why would there be a time traveler's convention every year? Technically, you'd only need one :P.
2007-02-17 04:31:42 · answer #2 · answered by dsmarisen 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Albert Einstein wrote, "Time and space are modes in which we think and not conditions in which we live".
He also said, ""Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
The ancient Rishis or holymen of India discovered these truths thousands of years ago and wrote of them.
Time as we perceive it is only Maya or a grand illusion and part of this present and temporary physical life. Time does not exist at all. It is just a veil, smoke and mirrors.
When you die, you will still be conscious although your body will "drop off". You will be unable to tell the difference between 12 seconds and 87 billion years because there is no difference. The illusion of time is only associated with this incarnation.
Eternity is not a continuous line of time extending into the past in one direction and the future in another. Eternity is the absence of time.
Forever is. It has no length or duration. You spend your afterlife in eternity because there is nothing else. There are no clocks in heaven. If you get bored there, you can come back and live the limited life of a human again. I do it a lot.
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2007-02-17 04:40:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
I think time is real (as in, not just a concept), but I don't necessarily believe it has to be linear.
2007-02-17 04:29:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Time is not purely a human invention. Together with space it forms a fourth dimension - and it's effects on the universe are very evident (gravity etc).
2007-02-17 15:11:30 · answer #5 · answered by Hello Dave 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time is an unidentified quantity.I saied it unidentified , bcoz we cannot feel it or change . wecannot say it to b linear or irregular bcoz it is the difference between two events. Hence its charater only b found out if we know the charater of these events . And those events' nature only depends on the space coordinates of them. HENCE NO ONE CAN SAY TIMES CHARACTERISTICS UNLESS KNOWING CHARACTERISTICS OF ITS EXAST SPACE COORDINATES.
2007-02-17 04:49:34 · answer #6 · answered by rocker 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only as we see it. Not everybody thinks our way. The bushmen of the Kalahari have a circular concept of time.
2007-02-17 04:37:08 · answer #7 · answered by David M 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
According to the Theory of Relativity, everything is relative, including time. Time changes as speed aproaches the speed of light. This theory has been tested by NASA and it does hold up to the best that modern science is able to test thus far. Time actually does slow as you approach the speed of light.
2007-02-17 04:35:18 · answer #8 · answered by daddyspanksalot 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i believe time to be more spiral than linear, like water going down a drain
2007-02-17 04:38:03 · answer #9 · answered by mark d 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
concept, apparently flys live in a faster time base thats why they move so fast, and when u try to hit them, it must be like seeing us in slow motion LOL
catch em by surprise that will get them
2007-02-17 04:31:12 · answer #10 · answered by robbo1974 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋