In various forms, this question seems to come up a lot on scienceforums, stirring considerable debate.
Answers include:
- time is something defined by any clock
- time is something defined by only certain kinds of clocks
- time isn’t defined by clocks of any kind
- time is a dimension that cannot be translated into other dimensions
- time is a dimension that can be translated into other dimensions
- time in quantatized (eg: can only be measured in multiples of 5.391 × 10-44 sec)
- time has something to do with increases in disorder/information/entropy
- there is no such thing as time – it’s just a psychic construct to prevent everything from being perceived at once
- Zeno’s paradox
- time exists, but can’t be meaningfully discussed in any natural language
Perhaps this discussion would benefit from if it left its various parent threads, and continued here. What’s do you believe time is, or is not, and why?
