What REALLY is time?

Question

a.. sensation? but... an external one? or is it just within us??

How do we really measure time?... our clocks do not measure time, they measure space, space we call seconds...

I'm not sure I really believe in it being a "4th dimension" anymore... I dunno I can't make my mind yet

Answer 1

Time, being relative... is actually the passage of planetary movement and it's relation to our location in the solar system !
We use the measurements of this to keep a historical record of our lives and occurrences in them !

Answer 2

Time is like a flowing river. We cannot stop it, we cannot go back, we cannot go faster than the river. I think it is measured by how much has passed between this event and that event in time. Our bodies get used to daily schedules. We go to sleep when it's night and do things durring the day. (Mostly) It is sometimes hard to alter our sense but it is possible. Like a bad habbit. But we cannot and will not alter time. Just our sense of it. Albert Einstien said that ravity alters time. We would age slower if we were in space. (So I've heard.) I am not realy sure what the 4th demention is. I know that it is 3D in real time, but what does that mean? Anyway, time is the measure of events that happen that happen between two other events. A hand ticks. That is an event. We measure how many times it happens for it to rach the minute hand and so on. The same thing with rythm. Rythms are the number of beats. Beats are events measured to help tell time. Thats my view of time.

Answer 3

This requires a fairly long answer.
To paraphrase something I read a long time ago, time is basically the fact that something persists.
If nothing moved, the concept of time would be irrelevant.
Motion makes time apparent.
Time is a phenomenon that only exists in the physical universe. Therefore if there were no physical universe, time would not exist.
If you believe in a spiritual universe, that universe would not have be subject to time.
If God created the universe, He created tim at the moment He created the universe.
It follows then that time didn't exist before the moment of creation.
So much for the question: What did God do during all that time prior to the beginning of creation? - There wasn't any. Without a physical universe there is no need for time.
Time, energy, space and physical particles are the result of creation. All are required for the existence of the universe. Eliminate any single one of those components and you don't have a functional physical universe.

Answer 4

Very good question. Unfortunately, I don't believe that humans will ever understand the true nature of time because we are trapped within it. We cannot step outside of "time" in order to observe it from another reference point. Nor do we have any reference point that exists outside of the "time" that we are attempting to characterize.

Consider physical dimensions as an example. Let's say that there were beings that exist in two-dimensional space. They have length and width, but absolutely no height. They can move left, right, forward, and back...they can turn around, etc...yet they have no concept whatsoever of "up" and "down". It would be impossible to explain to such a being what it is to exist in three-dimensional space. Perhaps these creatures have the cognitive abilities to conceive of a third dimension, but they could never characterize it or understand it's nature because they are trapped in two dimensions.

Much like we will never be able to transfer our physical being from three-dimensions to two-dimensions, I don't believe that we will ever have the ability to escape our own timeline. Consider that for as much knowledge as humans like to think we have obtained, we still don't know any more about the nature of time than we ever did....only a lot more unproven theories.

Answer 5

Really, time is a measurement. A long
time means a great amount of time, but you can't
measure time like a solid or a liquid. It
isn't like distance, a road is solid. "Empty"
space is determined as distance. So time does not have density or mass, or other measurements
of physics unrelated to seconds, minutes,
or hours. And it does exist, a person in
Greenwich Village or another time site
or type of site would agree.

A great amount of time is a relative term
meaning a tree is old if it lives 400 years. And
yes, rings determine the age, sorry Kent.
But a person is old if the person is 90 or 100.
The person's age can be proven by a legitimately
foolproof document.


......I'm never gonna get off of here today


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Answer 6

God created time when He created the earth and the solar system (Genisis 1:1). Time is closely realated to light as God created light before He created any form of light source, then He declared the evening and the morning to be the first "DAY". In Hebrew, the original language of the Bible, the word "day" translates to "Yom", meaning a 24 hour period. For the next 3 days (24 hour periods), God made the earth and heavanly bodies (stars and planets, not angels). These heavanly bodies were set in motion as determined by the length of day already established. God gave us time as a means to measure the space between happenings, and by which to measure time travel (since nobody has ever stopped time, every moments that passes brings us into the future--"time travel").

In short, time is a means of measuring a thing that God put in place that only He can fully understand.

Another intersting thing to consider concerning the time/light relationship; is that what you see when you look at something is not really the object itself; it is a refection of light. When you look at your girlfriend/boyfriend you don'y acually see THEM, you see the light that refects off of them, which is why you can't see in the absence of light. Light then travels onward into infinity (assuming it is not cut off, like when you're inside a closed room). Distance in outerspace is measured in "light years" which is determined by the distance light can travel in one year. So, if one was to instantaineously remove himself 100 lightyears from the the earth, he could then look back and see what happened on the the earth 100 years ago. Angelic being view past events in this fashion. I realize I may have gone slightly off the subject, but I believe them to be very closely linked; so much that without the one, it would be difficult to explain the other. I hope I gave a heplful insight.

Answer 7

Time exist because of planetary orbits. Even out side of the solar system time is present on a grand scale. It takes 25,000 for the great year.

The great year ends 2012. We are linked to creation enabling the body to be in sync according to this specific orbit. The big picture Is the astrological clock that function within us creating our personality. We use our personality with our free will. Free will is fate. Astrology is Destiny or Gods will. God has left rules to guide our free will. Free will can delay Destiny but destiny cannot be stopped because it's connected to time.

The Jesus talks about destiny as the disciples always tried to distract him from it with their free will,but he always answered saying the time has not yet come for the son of man, Knowing his destiny. Also Revelations talks about silence in heaven about the span of an half an hour.

Perhaps this is not the answer you anticipated but now you have more insight.

Answer 8

While time is a "relative" term. For the most part is is a reference to a linear concept. It is also on of the many dimensions that do exist in theory, just one of 268 according the the math problem the just worked out and it you wrote the equation down in small print it would run the whole length of manhatten Island. (ref: Yahoo 3/21/07)

Answer 9

Its a form of measurement to get the most accurate information to get from point A to point B. That's all it really is.

If you lived in a different space/time, another galaxy, another planet and it had an entirely different set of rhythms and rotations and you had an entirely different life span.. then, you would measure everything relative to your space/time.

Time is just a word to describe a measurement based on relativity or we wouldn't be able to land astronauts on the moon, let alone accurately send satellites to explore our Universe.

Remember, the moon is moving further away from the Earth and the rotation of the Earth used to be just 4 hours and is slowing down.

We won't notice it because our life spans relative to these longer events in the continuum of space/time is just a speck of time in comparison.

Answer 10

The period between sunrise to the next sunrise is obviously there, and it indicates a certain measurement to us humans.
I guess that was a logical reason or a call to name that measurement - Time. and so on and so on. but time can also be looked at as manipulative, since many people today refer to time as "the biggest enemy". you can see how this can psychologically affect us in many ways. besides, time is not accurate anyway on our planet, by the "time" you figure that out if ever, and before your 100 years old, wouldn't you ask yourself, what difference does it make?

Answer 11

Time is an affectation of gravity. The atomic clocks on Earth do not run at the same speeds because they are at different distances from the Earth's center.

Time is a series of events happening in sequential order.

Time is the progress of entropy.