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Can you define "time" without using "time" as a reference?
That means without using ANY term that has a correlation with "time," such as "past, present, future, yesterday, today... etc..." Give it a try, it's tricky, if not impossible!
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The indefinite continued progress of existence and events regarded as a whole.
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WhatMakesYouThink
ImNot
Posted Nov 12th, 2008 at 11:40AM
"That which is measured by clocks" If it's good enough for Einstein, it's good enough for me.
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lilt
Posted Nov 12th, 2008 at 11:41AM
Sand through the hour glass.
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msterling45
Posted Nov 12th, 2008 at 11:41AM
events put into a chronological order
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Bob57
Posted Nov 11th, 2008 at 4:03PM
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.
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K95724
Posted Nov 12th, 2008 at 1:49PM
It is a perceptual measurement of distance between one event and another.

It is subjective and can vary perceptually between one observer and another observer.

Ultimately, it, like space, is unReal.
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Caprile
Posted Nov 12th, 2008 at 11:42AM
Time is the farthest distance between two places.
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EricS
Posted Nov 11th, 2008 at 11:46PM
A human (therefor flawed) measurement of existence. ;-)
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levin60kitty
Posted Nov 11th, 2008 at 4:38PM
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.
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peterson1964
Posted Nov 11th, 2008 at 3:11PM
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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MegJgeM
Posted Nov 11th, 2008 at 4:10PM
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 objects.

Is this cheating?

:-)
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Tinkerbell2
Posted Nov 11th, 2008 at 4:11PM
a component of a measuring system used to sequence events
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StudentofLife
Posted Nov 11th, 2008 at 4:52PM
Nope.
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Hibi8cuS1oO
Posted Nov 11th, 2008 at 5:15PM
How about: Measuring the frequency of natural rhythms like: breaths, blinks of an eye, heartbeats, the sun, the moon... and seeing how many times one of those rhythms repeats during any given Event.
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angelwings626
Posted Nov 11th, 2008 at 5:24PM
the amount of space from point to another.
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Drumsong
Posted Nov 11th, 2008 at 6:06PM
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::
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doom333
Posted Nov 11th, 2008 at 7:19PM
The measurement of movement as a whole in context to movement of the world.
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winstonwelles
Posted Nov 11th, 2008 at 8:24PM
Well in terms of objective 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"
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kleisse
Posted Nov 11th, 2008 at 8:38PM
I dunno. Something humans made up to help make sense of the world.
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Waiwera
Posted Nov 11th, 2008 at 9:53PM
Time is:
A method of spreading out events in a linear fashion, so the relationships between causes and effects are more readily apparent.
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