Can you define "time" without using "time" as a reference?
20 Answers to "Can you define "time" without using "time" as a reference?"
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Sand through the hour glass.
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yes. the duration of an action.
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The measure of moments in a day repeated on a daily basis. Real time is non linear, that's because your mind bends it around you perception of it, that's why some moments seem to last longer than other moments. Time is a man made Idea.
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Something that continually moves, can't be contained, reversed, repeated nor otherwise controlled.
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The flow of matter from one point to another while gradual changes takes place
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Actually, if one theory is correct (and my gut says it is), time is a pseudo-dimension and does have a smallest possible increment, rather like a photon has a tiny but measurable mass. Put your science goggles on and read this:
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081110/full/news.2008.1217.htmlLike (1)
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Time is:
A method of spreading out events in a linear fashion, so the relationships between causes and effects are more readily apparent.Like (1)
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I dunno. Something humans made up to help make sense of the world.
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Well in terms of ob
jective reality it's just another dimension, and in terms of human experience it is the overall sequence of cause and effect. I'll go with "the dimension through which space "moves" in order to undergo change" Like (1)
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The measurement of movement as a whole in context to movement of the world.
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Time: A device often used to quantify the distance between events.
However, in reality, it doesn't really really exist... why just create it because it's easier than dealing with the truth ::winks::Like (1)
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the amount of space from point to another.
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How about: Measuring the frequency of natural rhythms like: breaths, bl
inks of an eye, heartbeats, the sun, the moon... and seeing how many times one of those rhythms repeats during any given Event. Like (1)
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Time is simply the measurement of movement. When movement speeds up time slows down. Without movement of some sort there can be no time. If there were a cube in space a billion by a billion miles cubed, inside that cube there would be no time. ---That's the scientific explanation but here's the real explanation.
Time is a diabolical plot by space aliens to subvert mankind and turn all humans into space batteries - you'vs no doubt seen the movie Matrix. When one asks a question like the above it indicates he/she has been implanted by space aliens with a chip in their brain.
To remove a chip stand on your head in the commode, flush three times, jump out of the wondow on your head and the chip will pop out of your mouthl.Like (1)
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Wikipedia defines time as a component of a measuring system used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify the motions of ob
jects.
Is this cheating?
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Time is an intangible attribute we assign to events to indicate physical position relative to the sun as the event occurred.
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Time is the farthest distance between two places.
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A human (therefor flawed) measurement of existence. ;-)
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msterling: Firstly, the events themselves are not time.
Secondly, "chronological" refers to time.
peterson: By that definition, we move alternatingly much faster and slower through time as the earth rotates.
My attempt: The dimension through which a straight line between two states of the same object goes. Like (1)
Best Answer (Chosen by Voting):
Posted by rusted Nov 15th, 2008 at 12:29AM
The indefinite continued progress of existence and events regarded as a whole.
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