what is time?

Answer 1

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 human intellectual structure (together with space and number) within which we 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 Leibniz and Immanuel Kant, in which time, rather than being an objective thing to be measured, is part of the measuring system used by humans.

Answer 2

Time is a dimension of matter as opposed to a
changing or flowing entity. Nothing can exist
outside of the present in real terms, which
encompasses the immediate sum of existence and
is always now. As time does not flow or change,
however, concepts such as past and future
events do not exist. In abstract logic only,
the past has had an effect on the present which
in turn creates future probabilities. What the
observer sees as the flow of time is really
only a change in position relative to some
other change in position.

Answer 3

Time, conscious experience of duration, the period during which an action or event occurs. Time is also a dimension representing a succession of such actions or events. Time is one of the fundamental quantities of the physical world, similar to length and mass in this respect. The concept that time is a fourth dimension—on a par with the three dimensions of space: length, width, and depth—is one of the foundations of modern physics. Time measurement involves the establishment of a time scale in order to refer to the occurrence of events. The precise determination of time rests on astronomical and atomic definitions that scientists have established with the utmost mathematical exactness.

Physicists agree that time is one of the most difficult properties of our universe to understand. Although scientists are able to describe the past and the future and demarcations such as seconds and minutes, they cannot define exactly what time is. The scientific study of time began in the 16th century with the work of Italian physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei. In the 17th century English mathematician and physicist Sir Isaac Newton continued the study of time. A comprehensive explanation of time did not exist until the early 20th century, when German-born American physicist Albert Einstein proposed his theories of relativity. These theories define time as the fourth dimension of a four-dimensional world consisting not just of space but of space and time.

Answer 4

Time is a dimension that enables two identical events occurring at the same point in space to be distinguished, measured by the interval between the events.

Answer 5

I am of the belief that 'time' is a "tool", a concept with which our minds order the way we perceive the world into a series of causes-and-effects. Humans are hardwired to seek out patterns and explain them in terms of 'cause-and-effect'; and the concept of time provides a backdrop with which we could distinguish 'cause' from 'effect' since 'cause' is always thought to occur before the 'effect'. Time then is a crucial part of how we perceive the world, for it is the ruler with which we gauge change.

Answer 6

1. An imagination of mind.
2. A modification in space.
3. A factor that influences your life.

Answer 7

Time is the path that every object walks on. So it can be measured. Looked from the God's eyes time may be something different like another dimension or something.

Answer 8

Time does not exist beyond our shared mental construct.

It is how we mark the passage of events and even the days of our lives. One cannot hold a minute or an hour, yet at the end of our days it is the most precious of commodities.

Answer 9

although I know nothing, I can say you what less I have understood.

Great people say : Time is Illusion.
Past and future are non-existent in the present. We live in illusion

I can say that when the relative universe is expanding, the quantity that measures its expansion and other properties is Time. Time is relative, when you sleep there is no time, no space.

Answer 10

Time is NOT REALITY. Time is an artificial device of man which measures experience in a lineal fashion. (past, present, future.)

The Universe is timeless. That time is, in any sense real, is nothing more than the imaginative "spin" we put on "things/events" as they hahppen in our lives.