what makes time?

Answer 1

movement within space.

dumbasses thumbs-downing me, I'm actually right, how much temporal physics have you studied? My answer is succinct, but still accurate. Morons.

Answer 2

Everything takes time, so I suppose something has to make it, otherwise we'd run out in no time.

Seriously, though, time is an integral and inseparable part of space-time which forms a universal manifold that inflated about 13 billion years ago in the "Big Bang". Space-time parametrizes the dynamical degrees of freedom of all processes. The space-time expansion itself is well described by modern physics (General Relativity), but the compact state of existence it erupted from is poorly understood.

Answer 3

The question is a little flawed and thus hard to answer. "what makes time" implies that time is a substance that is continually being "made" In fact time is one thing, having one point of origin and by nature, one point of ending. You could ask, "What made time?" and I would say time began at the beginning, you can't have any series of events without it. Before time there was nothing. Or you could ask "What affects time?" in order to understand it more. And to that I would reply that only a few known things in this universe actually affect time, either to slow it down, or warp it. The force of gravity has the power to slow time, the absence of gravity makes time move at it's "normal" rate (a rate that is probably not existant because everywhere there is time there is mass and everywhere there is mass there is gravity which slows time.) Time is not constant, and never has been. Extreme conditions on a universal scale can cause time in distant places to move very fast compared to other places.

Answer 4

Nothing necessarily 'makes' time, but it is that dimension and property of space time that keeps everything from happening at once.

Answer 5

time is relative. in meaning time is a human based subject on measering the amount of "time" or space in between certain events.