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Droz
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What exactly is TIME?
#7934659 - 01/26/08 12:04 PM (16 years, 6 days ago) |
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We can't touch it, we can't hear it, we cannot control it.
It's already in play. The beginning has begun and the end will be closing in on you.
We can only perceive time the best we can, we can measure it, we live in it and there is no escaping it.
So what exactly is it? Is it due to the rotation of the earth around the sun, is the sun putting off some sort of bio-genetic frequency that alters our body to grow then decay?
What exactly is it? Time?
Time for us to start thinking!
Peace, Droz
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im_on_a_boat
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Re: What exactly is TIME? [Re: Droz]
#7934680 - 01/26/08 12:10 PM (16 years, 6 days ago) |
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a badass song by pink floyd
a magazine
a fundamental quantity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time
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Jack Albertson
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Re: What exactly is TIME? [Re: Droz]
#7934690 - 01/26/08 12:10 PM (16 years, 6 days ago) |
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Douglas Adams:
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Horace Mann:
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between Sunrise and Sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.
Personally i think time is everything. We live by time and worship it. It could be the one true god.
-------------------- Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose.Man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time TRANSCEND
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Re: What exactly is TIME? [Re: Droz]
#7934699 - 01/26/08 12:12 PM (16 years, 6 days ago) |
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I think time is only a manifestation of man to try and keep order. If we didnt exist, things would happen as they would without any worry of time. We cant change the past, no. But past is only a classification we use that denotes a time line. Yeah, the sun of another galaxy might have exploded, but it cant unexplode just because of the changes that occured in the explosion, not because you cant go back in time.
...did that make any sense?
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Time in and of itself does not exist. It's a man-made way of measuring distance.
Think about it... time passes. What is that? It's the earth moving around the sun. It's a measure of distance. A year is equal to the distance the earth travels as it orbits the sun.
Another way of looking at it... You ask someone "How far away is (so and so place) from here?" And they respond "About 2 hours" Huh? Time is distance.
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Re: What exactly is TIME? [Re: Droz]
#7934721 - 01/26/08 12:17 PM (16 years, 6 days ago) |
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Time is a dimension, similar to but different from the three spatial dimensions that we are used to.
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Re: What exactly is TIME? [Re: boxcarguy07]
#7934738 - 01/26/08 12:20 PM (16 years, 6 days ago) |
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We measure time by the rotation of the earth around our sun; movement through space. Time is arbitrary because there are no absolutes that we can fixate on. The universe is a giant fractal mechanism, and our current disposition towards time is just a small fragment of it.
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Re: What exactly is TIME? [Re: Droz]
#7934759 - 01/26/08 12:25 PM (16 years, 6 days ago) |
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It's a concept which humans use to quantify the gradual changes that occur to what is happening. What is currently happening is reality--everything else is memory and fantasy.
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Re: What exactly is TIME? [Re: boxcarguy07]
#7934762 - 01/26/08 12:25 PM (16 years, 6 days ago) |
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Quote:
boxcarguy07 said: Time in and of itself does not exist. It's a man-made way of measuring distance.
Think about it... time passes. What is that? It's the earth moving around the sun. It's a measure of distance. A year is equal to the distance the earth travels as it orbits the sun.
Another way of looking at it... You ask someone "How far away is (so and so place) from here?" And they respond "About 2 hours" Huh? Time is distance.
You cant measure age by how may times youve orbited the sun. I dont think man made time, they only try to capture it.
-------------------- Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose.Man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time TRANSCEND
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Re: What exactly is TIME? [Re: Droz]
#7934770 - 01/26/08 12:26 PM (16 years, 6 days ago) |
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People were getting greedy, so Coyote invented time so that they would be busy and not have the opportunity to get bored and accumulative.
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Diploid
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Re: What exactly is TIME? [Re: Droz]
#7934832 - 01/26/08 12:38 PM (16 years, 6 days ago) |
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Someone (not me) once said that time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once.
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Re: What exactly is TIME? [Re: Droz]
#7934834 - 01/26/08 12:38 PM (16 years, 6 days ago) |
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Time could be a manifestation of the way we are intertwined and entangled with our surrounding, whatever its scale.
Because of the way we are intertwined it then seems to transform according to some known principles from which we built a model; in this context it is convenient to call it a dimension. Still we first postulated its nature from everyday experiences, we did not derive it.
We have yet to derive time and give it an explanation according to some bigger, better, stronger theory. Until then we are stuck with our limited understanding.
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Re: What exactly is TIME? [Re: Diploid]
#7934840 - 01/26/08 12:39 PM (16 years, 6 days ago) |
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Quote:
Diploid said: Someone (not me) once said that time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once.
That was John Archibald Wheeler if I recall correctly.
Edited by deimya (01/26/08 12:41 PM)
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Veritas

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Re: What exactly is TIME? [Re: Diploid]
#7934854 - 01/26/08 12:41 PM (16 years, 6 days ago) |
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Probably Woody Allen, though some say that he stole the quote from Einstein.
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backfromthedead
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Re: What exactly is TIME? [Re: Droz]
#7935195 - 01/26/08 01:45 PM (16 years, 6 days ago) |
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DURATION
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Re: What exactly is TIME? [Re: Droz]
#7937104 - 01/26/08 08:03 PM (16 years, 6 days ago) |
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I've got one...try defining distance for me. What is it?
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Re: What exactly is TIME? [Re: trendal]
#7937219 - 01/26/08 08:28 PM (16 years, 6 days ago) |
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distance is space traversed.
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MushroomTrip
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I would go for a conventional method that aids one in appreciating certain coordinates.
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Re: What exactly is TIME? [Re: Veritas]
#7937311 - 01/26/08 08:47 PM (16 years, 6 days ago) |
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Veritas said: It's a concept which humans use to quantify the gradual changes that occur to what is happening. What is currently happening is reality--everything else is memory and fantasy.
How about astral projection, is that fantasy as well?
Reality can be experienced not only through the waking state ime.
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Re: What exactly is TIME? [Re: deranger]
#7937328 - 01/26/08 08:51 PM (16 years, 6 days ago) |
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Astral projection has YET to be proven as real (or unreal ) As far as we know by now, it's only a mind thing. And yes, I have experienced it and it feels darn real, but the fact is that, for example, so does schizophrenia.  So yeah, let's stick to what's a fact.
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