What is the truth about time, is it just clocks?...why don't we destroy all clocks and live forever?

Answer 1

I love how many people are taking this question seriously.
It is drawing some good philosophical responses, though.

Answer 2

Time is dictated by the rotation of the earth. Unless you can stop the earth from rotating, destroying your clocks will only give a huge boost to the clock industry when everyone runs out to buy new clocks.

Answer 3

Time is a function of matter. Atoms usually have a number of electrons associated with them. These electrons are orbiting the nucleus of the atom at a certain speed. The nucleus usually wobbles a bit. This is the ultimate clock. If you could stop MATTER from aging (2nd Law of Thermodynamics - going from order to chaos) then your proposed experiment could be carried out. As it is, those electrons are still orbiting even when there is no way to count the passing of time.

Answer 4

Mankind lived a very long life before the flood. but God said after the flood he would dwell with man 120 years . Adam was made to live forever but he sinned, so he and Eve were cast out of the garden and lived by the sweat of his brow, so we do also today.
Clock's do not control the time we have each day, it tells us the time.

Answer 5

There are two distinct views on the meaning of time. One view is that time is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a dimension in which events occur in sequence, and time itself is something that can be measured. This is the realist's view, to which Sir Isaac Newton subscribed.

A contrasting view is that time is part of the fundamental intellectual structure (together with space and number) within which we sequence events, quantify the duration of events and the intervals between them, and compare the motions of objects. In this view, time does not refer to any kind of entity that "flows", that objects "move through", or that is a "container" for events. This view is in the tradition of Gottfried Leibnizand Immanuel Kant,in which time, rather than being an objective thing to be measured, is part of the mental measuring system. The question, perhaps overly simplified and allowing for no middle ground, is thus: is time a "real thing" that is "all around us", or is it nothing more than a way of speaking about and measuring events?

so time is both nothing and something, it keeps track of things and is the constant motion of the universe.

Answer 6

Clocks are just a way for us to measure the passage of time. Time would still exist without clocks. Animals don't wear watches, but they still die.

Answer 7

Clocks just measure time

Answer 8

Time is a fictious construct created by man in order to measure the world around him. We see two events that happen in a predictable way (such as sunrise and sunset, or the moon going from full to blank, etc.). We then create terms to describe these, such as "day, night, or month" (moon-th, get it?).
Then, we break these divisions down into easily usable terms, such as hours, minutes, and seconds. And, we expand them into other repeatable sections, such as years, and decades.

Clocks, my friend, are only a measure of that thing we call time, which is itself a measure of predictable change around us.

Sorry. You'll die like the rest of us.

Answer 9

The dinosaurs didn't have clocks, and THEY didn't live forever. You could call your life time forever if you wanted but it wouldn't really be, you would still die.

Answer 10

People must have lived forever until clocks were invented, huh?

Answer 11

Well, I think you would still notice the Sun rising and falling. I mean lets face it, you didn't live forever in the Bronze Age either.