Why movement of The Earth is Time? Why we grow?
2007-03-16 16:51:21 · 7 answers · asked by koiapka 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I think time is sort of all-or nothing in theory.
If time exists, it causes momentum in the space-time continuim.
Without it there would be no change, no progress, no dying, no birth.
Time either exists or it doesn't and lucky for us it does!
2007-03-16 17:04:16 · answer #1 · answered by catdog875woo 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Time is crazy, just thinking about that question drives me crazy, time is is.... will I cant be sure, but i think time is the order with which things happen, so its basically like since today is march 17, then last years march 17 was a year ago, so therefore time is the difference between to different points in history (lol sorry if this a bad idea, im new to philosophy) so basically time move in a straight liner pattern, since time can only exists if things happen, and things that happen after create the time in between, i guess in that case time has to be continuously, since events are constant, i guess even if there was nothing going on then time would still be there, because it would be the period from when it started to the point it is now, (lol, im confusing my self, lol, i love philosophy)
2007-03-17 02:07:36 · answer #2 · answered by cujo#31 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time is a bizarre and unimaginable thing. All of these hours and days and centuries are simply a sigh in the "real" way of thinking about it. Really, there is no such thing as future or past, and present is simply nuts. The matter of us growing is a strange cycle that would only make this matter of "time" make any sense. I suppose it's a concept of pondering for a long amount of the time in question and using advanced vocabulary words to fancy the notion.
2007-03-17 01:15:39 · answer #3 · answered by spinelli 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lineal time doesn't really exist but our belief in it makes it seem to. Consequently the reality we create with our thoughts seems to be moving in a particular direction with what seems to have happened appearing to us as the past and what is going to happen seeming to be the future.
All of this is an illusion. there is in truth only one moment and we call it now for want of a better name. This moment that we call now is all that is real.
This is actually quite easy to prove to your self.
Touch your index fingers together last Tuesday . Go ahead do it.
Difficult isn't it.
Now touch them together next Wednesday. Still a problem isn't it.
Now touch them together right now.
That works a lot better.
Even if you actually waited till Wednesday you would still touch them together at a moment you would properly call now.
Now is in truth the only moment that you will ever have. The past is just a memory. The future no more than an educated guess.
Love and blessings Don
2007-03-17 09:45:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The theory I like best is that time results from changes in the relationships between objects. State A is percieved then state B etc. The thing that really intrigues me is that time only goes one way. Reichenbach suggested that the unidirectional flow of time might be due to the second law of thermodynamics (entropy always increases in our universe).
To answer:
Movement of earth is time because of position changes that occur with a definite order.
Why time only goes in one direction is anyone's guess. Heidegger's (sic) idea was religious in nature. I like to think it has to do with entropy.
The funny thing is that the growth of biological organisms including us seems to violate the second law at first glance. As we grow we accumulate more and more mass that is organized into structures that make up our bodies. In this way we are decreasing the entropy of substances that we use as raw materials. The key to this is to realize that we take in food and metabolize it to make heat as well as to build our bones. We 'pay' for the decrease of entropy that our bodies represent by giving off some energy as heat and other waste. The entropy of the universe continues to increase in spite of our efforts to bring order to chaos.
2007-03-17 01:05:18 · answer #5 · answered by george 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time is simply a unit of measurement.
We grow because we are alive.
The interval of a life is a lifetime - be it 5 years or 100 years - it is a lifetime.
2007-03-18 10:01:14 · answer #6 · answered by Zasu 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because, that's just the way it is.
2007-03-17 00:13:06 · answer #7 · answered by happysnappy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋