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[Maddad]

Time is so common a human experience that we do not consider what it is. We know what it is; it is the regular spacing of events in our life. Yet when we use the word regular, we are using time to define time. As soon as we try to define time without using a word that embodies it, we are no longer so sure what we mean by time.

What do you think time is?

[Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe]

Gee...

You pick the easy topics.

.....I dunno.

Everything atrophies and we gauge the aging with clocks, calendars and how many beers we had before closing time.

Identifying segments of time is a human invention, milliseconds to eons...I guess we feel more in control if we can bottle passing, (and to passed) - moments - but it's all an illusion.

Relativity theory says time slows down as we approach the speed of light, but is speed a manmade creation? I don't think the photon cares if it travels 186.282 Mph...or if we tag along...we slow down aging. Time Lord stuff.

Maybe, the atoms sintering off elements on a regular basis, (carbon-14 decay, cesium clocks etc...), is nature's time keeper and time does exist.

I dunno.

[Centaur]

Time is nature’s way of making it appear to us that everything is not happening all at once.

[Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe]

Dimensional physics says that there may be alternate realities slightly different or radically changed...just a razor's width from our noses.

I'm fishing for the one without Miley Cyrus.

[Brian Perry]

Time is A nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future.

An interval separating two points on this continuum; a duration:

[Paulie pchris00]

Aug 28, 2009 22:07:43 GMT -6 Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe said:

Relativity theory says time slows down as we approach the speed of light, but is speed a manmade creation? I don't think the photon cares if it travels 186.282 Mph...or if we tag along...we slow down aging. Time Lord stuff.

Time as explained by the last of the Time Lords.




"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a nonlinear, nonsubjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey... Stuff."




And, just to be safe, don't blink.