Is the speed of time one second per second?

Question

Think about it.

Answer 1

Sure, time over time is unity. We call that a tautology.

Answer 2

good question! for those of us on earth, yes--but then again, think about how relative time is to your frame of reference. if you are just sitting and watching an interesting movie or reading a really great book your time passes much more quickly than someone who is waiting in line to pay a bill. also, on other planets days can be longer or shorter so the time there would not be dependent upon a twenty four hour clock like we have, because all a second is is 1/60 of a minute, which is 1/60 of an hour, which is 1/24 of a day.

thank you for getting my brain going this morning :o)

Answer 3

Actually, the answer to that isn't always as obvious as it sounds when you consider the theory of relativity.

Remember that a stationary observer looking at a person traveling at very high speeds will perceive time passing at a much slower rate for the traveler, though time will appear normal to a person stuck in the traveling frame of reference. To put it more practically, you could travel into space at close to light speed (assuming the means were available), be gone for only an hour by your watch, and return to earth to find that a century has passed.

Answer 4

The speed of time is variable. Someone who is moving at high speed or in an intense gravitational field would experience time at a slower rate relative to an outside observer.

Answer 5

Your velocity through time and velocity through space sum up to the speed of light. BUT velocity is reference frame dependent. In your own personal reference frame you are at rest, So time passes for you at the speed of light. However someone in a difference reference will perceive you moving and themselves at rest. Therefore from their vantage point your passage of time will be slowed.

A freely moving observer will always experence the passage of time at the speed of light becuase in their reference frame they are at rest!

Special Relativity!

Answer 6

KennyK is right.
At rest and without the effect of gravity, we all move through time at the speed of light. Since the speed of light is the universal speed limit, when you move through space, you use part of that speed to move through space and part through time, experiencing what is known as "time dilation".

Answer 7

time is an interval between event, plenty of events take much less than one second, the answer is, no.

Answer 8

You are confusing two distinct uses of time, making your implication meaningless. Sorry.

Answer 9

The term speed of time has no meaning.

Hence there is no answer.

Answer 10

No, time is only relative, there is no measure of a measure.