What is time????????

[Flying Tigers]

Im sure I know and I could even give a you an exetremly good definition yet I can't seem to operate in it. For a examples(or list) im alway late to school or a class, Im don't do my homework because im afraid of long it takes me to it, this
is not just school im never seem find time to do things I want to do(or remember:(. Im super smart not that i can find the "time" to prove it.

[heero yuy 95]

Um, sorry I really can't come up with a good definition. All Iknow is that time is time. And that guy who sang "time is on Your side" was totally lying. BTW you have a cool avatar.

[Mr. SmartyPants]

something that started when the universe began...

this could get really philosophical

[Lochaber Axe]

The span of a heart beat...

The minute twitch of the earth...

This is what time is. Time is nothing more than an increment humanity has created to simplify the world. There is no such thing as measurements, be it length, width, volume, distance, since it is all humanity's creation. The universe would not define itself that way if it was asked.

It is not necessarily important to know these measurements, since organic beings aren't bound by these. A machine must be limited by measurements, but a man can walk all he wants to without knowing how many miles he has left.

In short... time is unimportant.

[ClosetOtaku]

"Time" is the consciousness that events have sequentiality, causality, or some other notion that "this came before" or "this came after". The sense, however, can mislead us. Einstein demonstrated that Time was a physical property of the universe, and is relative to the inertial frame of reference of the observer (the "twin paradox", for example), and can be influenced by factors such as velocity and gravity. Two (or more) observers can draw equally valid conclusions about the juxtaposition of two events, coming to completely different answers, and both be "right". So, even Time itself is not absolute in any regard.

In a spiritual sense, Time is for our benefit, allowing our relatively simple minds to be able to grasp routine concepts without going loony. Existential ideas are another matter completely. For example, we know God exists apart from Time. Sit for five minutes and think about what it means for God to be eternal, without beginning or end. At no point can you say, "Well, what about before that" where God is concerned and get what we'd consider to be a rational answer. How we will stand around the Throne and worship for eternity, to the average human mind, can seem simply incomprehensible, but we know this to be true.

Time, then, will disappear when God brings the Universe and all matter to an end ("the end of time", we call it, appropriately). It's foreign to His nature. For us, though, our flesh can't handle that Reality, at least not yet. Apparently, our spirits will be able to, in a way we just can't quite grasp at the moment.

My two cents. Your mileage may vary.

[Warrior4Christ]

"Time is what stops everything from happening at once."

[Nate]

Time is nothing but motion. Think about it. If "time" were to stop, motion would stop, correct? And if motion were to stop, then "time" would stop.

Even atomic clocks, the most accurate clocks there are, are based on the resonance of atoms (nothing but movement). Just as a day is based on the earth's rotation around its own axis, and a year is based on the revolving of the earth around the sun.

Time is only an illusion, based completely on the motion of objects.

[Togira Ikonoka]

time is what god made it to be when in the bible as through his deciples it was written when he made the earth and everything on it he took a time span of 7 days to make it there fore time exists.

[Technomancer]

Time is best defined not by Newton or Einstein's ideas of motion, but instead by the idea of irreversible processes. If we were to run Newton's equations backwards in time (for negative t), all that would happen is that the direction of motion would change and everything else would still be consistent. Such a system is reversible. However, if we look at how energy is lost or gained in a system, we find that time flows only in one direction. A cloud won't run backwards into a smaller point, and spilt milk won't fly back into your cup. Energy has been lost in those systems, and hence they are irreversible

[Heart of Sword]

Time? What time? My theory is that "time" doesn't even exist...it's just a concept...we just made up a way to measure our days, minutes, hours, years, etc....just my theory though.

[Slater]

Time is the 4th dimension. and you know, that's not too hard to think of... look at a time-line... that'a a graph of the dimension t with points marked on it.

[Arnobius]

Time, What Is Time....

That's easy. It's a Blind Guardian song

[Warrior4Christ]

Also a magazine.


"If you want more time, go buy the magazine!"

Bonus marks to the person who can tell me where the quote is from.

[Eriana]

Times Magazine?
I don't know.
Time is just another one of God's creations, I agree with this post:

Time is nothing but motion. Think about it. If "time" were to stop, motion would stop, correct? And if motion were to stop, then "time" would stop.

Notice I have to quote other people's posts because I have no words of my own.
I'm just kidding.

[Slater]

*sings* What is time?
Baby don't ping me...
Don't ping me...
No more...

[TurkishMonky]

hmm... i feel this philisophical discusin deteriorating... :-)

Time is based on the observer, as stated last page. Therefore, the time according to you may travel diferently then the time according to me, depending on how fast you go, etc (although hte dfference is miniscule - like .0001 seconds for a solid day of flight as opposed to just standing there (although i haved no idea what the real actual values are, so forgive me))
however, at the current moment i wish i was able to travel for a few hours straight ahead at he speed of light (or is it moving in a circle at the speed of light?) so i could slow down time enough to do my homework for the week....

[Arnobius]

Well, more seriously, time is not just a construct of man, though the units of measurement are (Hmm... why not metric time, for all of you out there who bash the English measurement system). If linear measurements measure the distance from　one point to another, time measures how long you have to twiddle your thumbs or act between events. It can be measured backwards, but only lived forwards.

Time begins at the moment of Creation and involves creation during it's existance (God is Eternal and outside of time. Before Creation, time did not exist, and at the end of Creation, it will no longer exist)

But time shouldn't be thrown off as meaningless. Jesus Christ entered time when he was conceived and lived in time, carried out his ministry in time and his crucifixion and Resurection are also incidents in time, not legend. The Second coming will come at a time we will not expect.

(Is this philisophical enough for you?)

[Flying Tigers]

I do agree with this.

And that guy who sang "time is on Your side" was totally lying. BTW you have a cool avatar.

My grandfather flew a flying tiger in war world2.

Time is nothing but motion. Think about it. If "time" were to stop, motion would stop, correct? And if motion were to stop, then "time" would stop

Basicly time, science, and anything else you can think of other than god and your soul is bilt from math.

[That Dude]

What we call "Time" is a unit of measurement. Now there are varying veiws on what it's measuring but I think that we can all agree to it being a unit of measurement for something.

[Arnobius]

What we call "Time" is a unit of measurement. Now there are varying veiws on what it's measuring but I think that we can all agree to it being a unit of measurement for something.

I would disagree: "an hour" may be an arbitrary division of time, similar to the metric vs English measurement, but still there was still a passage of time whether we measured it or not. Our units are merely for measuring something that exists

[Mithrandir]

Uh huh. And if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

I'll skip past the logical falicies inherent in the "Time is what God made it" argument for the sake of brevity and social equality.

The human concept of time is simply a reflection of man kind's inability to percieve all of reality at once. Nothing more, nothing less. An animal would have a different concept of time than would an average human - however multiple humans can have a differing interpritation of time; it can be scientifically measured by instruments that are designed to (surprise!) measure time the same way each time they are used. Now then, let us assume that humans existed in the 2nd deminsion only. A sphere would appear to us to be merely a circle. A square would appear as either a square or a line (or anything in between) depending entirely on your perspective. Extrapolate that into the discussion of more than three deminsions, and I think you can see what I'm getting at.

Completing the thought is left as an excercise for the reader.

[Warrior4Christ]

[quote="Mithrandir"]Completing the thought is left as an excercise for the reader. ]
I plan to write "the rest is left as an exercise for the marker" on my exams this year.

Sorry, that was completely off topic. What I meant was "this TIME in my exams, I plan to...".
And also, the TIME between when they say "you may now start writing" to "pens down" is not long enough.

[Wakarimashta!]

Time is indeed the name of a popular Magazine.

But the flow of time is often relative to each person. From what I've experienced, the more older you get, the more time seems to pass by than to a child.