so what is time?

[milefile]

Oh those... like in your avatar?

 

[Jugend]

you get it mile..

 

[milefile]

Maybe he lives on the planet in my avatar?

 

[Jugend]

Mabye he does. Or at least he has a cosy hunting-cabine on it where he can hunt zlorghs.

 

[Talentless]

Time , time , time
See what´s become of me

 

[milefile]

We have so much time, and so little to do! Strike that, reverse it.

 

[Danoff]

Any takers? What is space?

 

[milefile]

For starters, defining it as seperate from time is impossible. It is that in which things move, as is time.

 

[Klostrophobic]

Time is nothingness. Wow, I'm deep. Ponder that for a moment.

Space, also is nothingness. Everything is nothingness--even nothingness itself.

 

[ledhed]

Time is a pure pain in the butt..its all relitive though..or is it ?

 

[Talentless]

Time is a unit of measure invented by humans for convenience. If there is something to which the moniker can be applied, it was probably discovered late into human evolution.

An ancient gut saw that less of his kind were torn to bits at certain levels of day light and conditions in nature, as well as noticing some foods were more available ar certain times, and he started time around it.

To nature, 300 cycles of the sun is a week, maybe.

Time's nothing.

 

[Duke]

You guys are confusing the units of measuring time - created by mankind in relation to the observed natural phenomena - with time itself.

Time flows in one direction, at a varying rate, without regard to the scale of measurement applied to it. It exists outside that frame of reference.

 

[Danoff]

kilometers were certainly invented by man, but space exists.

In this dicussion, consider time no differently than you do any direction in space. It is another medium through which we move. Except, we cannot alter our velocity.

 

[milefile]

Originally posted by danoff
we cannot alter our velocity.

Theoretically.

 

[Duke]

Actually, we can alter our velocity through time, just not our direction. If you travel in 3-space at relativistic speeds - a healty percentage of c - time compresses for your frame of reference. So if you spend, say, 20 years traveling at 80% of the speed of light, 30 years will have passed on Earth while you're making your circuit. 20 and 30 aren't the right numbers, but I'm too busy to look up the equation for time dilation at the moment.

 

[Danoff]

you are correct neon. I meant "we" being normal people hanging out on the surface of the planet. I'll try to be more accurate in the future.

 

[regulate]

Originally posted by neon_duke
Actually, we can alter our velocity through time, just not our direction. If you travel in 3-space at relativistic speeds - a healty percentage of c - time compresses for your frame of reference. So if you spend, say, 20 years traveling at 80% of the speed of light, 30 years will have passed on Earth while you're making your circuit. 20 and 30 aren't the right numbers, but I'm too busy to look up the equation for time dilation at the moment.

ah its like when you do that (the whole near light speed traviling thing in the quote above), with little kids, and when you come back 20 years later, they've aged a whole lot more.

 

[Mopar Muscle]

time is sythetic, and it is how we tell it to be. <~~ give that some thought and you will get it.

 

[Mopar Muscle]

No replies? I guess you are still thinking.

 

[Danoff]

I disagree, time is no more synthetic than space is.

 

[Mopar Muscle]

Originally posted by danoff
I disagree, time is no more synthetic than space is.

what is space? what is beyond the earth's atmosphere? man sure as hell didn't make that! time did not exist untill two eople saw the sun go down and said "let's call it a day."
(ok, that was a pretty corny joke)

 

[Spock]

time only ends when everythings dead, because noone can say it continues, imo

 

[Timmotheus]

Originally posted by Mopar Muscle
what is space? what is beyond the earth's atmosphere? man sure as hell didn't make that! time did not exist untill two eople saw the sun go down and said "let's call it a day."
(ok, that was a pretty corny joke)

No, no, no, no, NO!
A unit to measure time did not exist until sentient life evolved. Time always has and always will exist.

 

[Danoff]

what is space? what is beyond the earth's atmosphere? man sure as hell didn't make that! time did not exist untill two eople saw the sun go down and said "let's call it a day."
(ok, that was a pretty corny joke)

This is the issue that duke was hinting at. You're talking about a unit of measure of time. We're talking about the dimension of time. Whne you say space is beyond the earth's atmosphere you're missing what I'm saying there too.

I mean space, as in distance. As in, the space in between you and your computer monitor. I mean the physical 3 dimensions we use to move around in.

 

[Justproof]

 

[Duke]

There's a board for testing. Oddly enough it's called the Test Forum. Give it a go.

 

[Justproof]

I think much of the difficulty is the result of us actually consciously thinking in the context of an instant of time, and projecting this onto the world around us

just a thought

 

[Mopar Muscle]

Originally posted by danoff
This is the issue that duke was hinting at. You're talking about a unit of measure of time. We're talking about the dimension of time. Whne you say space is beyond the earth's atmosphere you're missing what I'm saying there too.

I mean space, as in distance. As in, the space in between you and your computer monitor. I mean the physical 3 dimensions we use to move around in.

Aah, I see said the blind man to his deaf wife who was sewing socks for their shinless son.

But yea, the universe is mecanical and mathematicly logical.

 

[Mopar Muscle]

TROGDOR strikes again! buwa ha ha haa!

 

[regulate]

uh...no.