Just wondering .. does time affect energy?

Answer 1

Despite what Einstein said, time is more or less an illusion, and is only a dimension in the mathematical sense.

So, no.

Answer 2

Time is guaranteed to affect the distribution of energy. As eons pass, there will be less imbalance in energy potentials to convert to work. This is an inescapable consequence of the second law of thermodynamics which says that every natural process decreases these differences. In the ref., this increasing entropy is in fact described as a basis for distinguishing the one-way flow of time.

Answer 3

Very broad question... but yes it does, in every way possible!!

In fact energy cannot change form, be quantified, or even exist without the fourth dimension we call time.

The standard unit of energy in physics is a joule, which is equal to a kg*m^2/s^2. (kilogram meter squared per second squared) So without time (seconds) energy cannot be defined.

The total energy in the Universe is held constant. It is only transformed from one form into another. Examples of forms are kinetic, potential, thermal, chemical, etc..

So yes time does affect energy...It defines its existence. However it doesnt affect the overall amount of energy in the universe it only provides a background for it to manifest itself into different forms.

Answer 4

Depends on who answers it. I say yes, more time will either increase energy or decrease energy. There is reaction time to increase or lose energy. You also need time to store or release energy.

One example the stars in the universe. U look into the star above the light it luminates needs light years (time) to reach us. But some of these stars may be burnt out or long gone when we see it. So time will affect energy whether its delusion or not.

Answer 5

Yes, sure.

Time is related to energy as space to momentum.
Time is sharply different from spacial dimensions,
yet very similar to them, which makes people think
that time-space inital symmetry was, perhaps, broken
some time ago in type II phase transiton, which left
only Lorentz subgroup of time-space transformations
invariant to observable laws.

Before that time was no special, and energy did not exist
in the form in which we know it now (like monthly energy bills).

Answer 6

Definitely.
The more time I spend looking at all these ?s, the less energy I have.......!