What is time?

Question

What is time?

Answer 1

Shut the **** up!!!!!Dork,,,,,,muhahahahahahahaha

Answer 2

Time is a human construct used to separate events. As far as we know, only humans have a concept or need for time. As near as we can tell, animals live in the here and now, while they might appear to know when it is time to eat, that behavior can usually be explained by the fact that as they digest their last meal, they develop the need for the next. Since we tend to feed our pets the same amount at the same time each day, the time between feedings tends to be the same from day to day.

Humans however, have developed the ability to recognize things that happened earlier and anticipate things that might happen later. Early man recognized that the earth went through cycles that were similar, but differed in subtle ways. As they developed record keeping methods, they were able to measure the periods between similar events. The most obvious time measure is a day. The next most obvious period is a month, one complete cycle of the phases of the moon as observed on the earth. After months come seasons which are measured by the position of the sun in the sky at sunrise.

Our system of measuring time in 60 minute hours and 60 second minutes comes from the Babylonian base 60 number system. Today, we have very accurate methods of measuring what we call the passage of time. While these measurements are based on the vibrations of certain atoms, we convert those vibrations into seconds, minutes and hours because the usage is pretty much universal and cannot be changed after centuries of common use. Perhaps once mankind leaves the earth for space living, we will develop a different time counting scheme.

Answer 3

There are two distinct views on the meaning of time.

One view is that time is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a dimension in which events occur in sequence, and time itself is something that can be measured. This is the realist's view, to which Sir Isaac Newton subscribed, and hence is sometimes referred to as Newtonian time.

A contrasting view is that time is part of the fundamental intellectual structure (together with space and number). Within this structure, humans sequence events, quantify the duration of events and the intervals between them, and compare the motions of objects. In this second view, time does not refer to any kind of entity that "flows", that objects "move through", or that is a "container" for events. This view is in the tradition of Gottfried Leibnizand Immanuel Kant, in which time, rather than being an objective thing to be measured, is part of the mental measuring system.

Answer 4

Time is something that is basically visible at the instance you look at your watch or clock.
In the Einstein theory of special relativity when a clock is moving you dont read time the same way as when the clock is not in motion.
In General Relativity theory time is intertwined with space.
In Strings theory time shakes continuously.
In Biological life processes time eventually come to an end .
Even though we cannot exactly define it, there is,however , a certainty when your clock stops so does your biological life .
on earth.

Answer 5

Time is relative. Time passes differently for everything. On this planet, it passes in secconds, minutes, hours, days... But on another planet, if there is inteligent life that can calculate time, they may have longer seconds, and shorter minutes. Time is simply the theory of how one moment passes into another.

Answer 6

Time is a scale of events, a progression of occurrences and happenings.

Answer 7

Intervals between events.

Answer 8

Just one way of expressing the unit of Energy (I live in natural units)

Answer 9

yeah man, time doesn't really exist. humans thought it up to explain changes. my cat, for example, has no idea what time is. which can explain why he's always late.

but seriously folks!

if time doesn't exist, well then time travel is really impossible... which blows!

Answer 10

time is the relativistic separation of events according to one's frame of reference, that does not occur simultaneously with other events.

Answer 11

Time is a figment of our own minds.