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Originally Posted by CraigD
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? |
One answer that I've heard a couple of
times, little pun there, is that time is really only the passage from one universal existence into the next and following universal existence. What this preception does is eliminates not only time but also all observed motion. I personally don't buy into the idea but I thought I would just throw it out there for discussions sake.
