2007-02-22 11:40:38 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Good way to formulate the question.
Issac Newton had already asserted that he had 'presumed' time as an absolute quantity while developing his principia, (1687). He pointed to the work that would await over two hundred years to reach completion with the Poincare, (1900), 'energy equation' and Einstein's papers on the inertia and energy of bodies, (1905).
We see- due to the work that Newton had laid the foundation for as he asserted that his whole work would have to be re-visited operating upon the premise that time is in fact NOT absolute- and from that work earnestly undertaken by many, reaching it's completion through Poincare and Einstein- that in fact: that IS exactly what time is: the difference!
Every event takes place over a timeline and yet the same reaction and it's processes are the way in which we quantify that time span...indeed a circuitous journey. We observe the event and as it unfolds, it provides the measure of time...yet we also know that those events are NOT always taking place over the same duration...so we are stuck. The difference tells us time has passed but when we realize that those changes occur NOT absolutely constrained to the same duration...we acknowledge that this difference IS really all we know...and that since a change has occured that change involved SOME time passing.
I think in time we fully see how jealous is our GOD for he does seem to claim absoluteness as HIS singular domain...neither constricted to or defined by it, yet inhabited solely by him and those few fundemental relationships by which he was well pleased to frame the universe and all things within it...an excellent phrasing of the question. Peace-out
2007-02-22 12:14:21 · answer #1 · answered by oneusainexile 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
well, it's nearly 2 a.m. where I am. and we're both doing the exact same thing, so I doubt it makes any difference, except that I have to work in 6 hours, and you probably don't. and that I'm tired, but that's not because of the time of day, it's because I sleep during the night, usually.
2007-02-22 19:44:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's how to can find the average velocity if you know the time it took to move a distance.
It's how you find the average acceleration if you know the changes in velocity and time
It's how much longer you have left to make something better for yourself.
2007-02-22 19:44:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of difference, what happens if you want to meet up with someone... and there wasn't such thing as time?
Exactly, you'd be stuck then, wouldn't you?
2007-02-22 19:43:27 · answer #4 · answered by - 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I'm not sure but as far as daylight savings time: You may be an hour late to work (that stinks because your boss may be mad...), which can't be worse that getting to work one hour early (bummer!!)
2007-02-22 19:47:24 · answer #5 · answered by longleggedfirecracker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends on what you are planning to do, but either way the clock's still going to tick, so yeah, no difference at all.
2007-02-22 19:44:11 · answer #6 · answered by i say what i feel 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The ole timer puts this one eloquently:
" Slow down a bit today, there's always tommorrow"......
and
"Why hurry up and wait?"
2007-02-22 19:47:23 · answer #7 · answered by jc 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it makes all the difference in the world... literally
stop trying to be so deep
2007-02-22 19:43:41 · answer #8 · answered by ♥sweet♥ 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
a lot of difference.... a lot can happen in a moment. time has a way of changing thigs and it is inevitable
2007-02-22 19:43:24 · answer #9 · answered by Ambini 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Time is everything.
a matter of minutes can be a matter of life and death.
2007-02-22 19:44:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋