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Some people on this thread have denied that time is real. But science has demonstrated that time is relative and passes more slowly for objects moving at higher rates of speed relative to slower objects. Additionally, time moves at different rates of speed depending on the strength of a gravitation field. The further you move away from the surface of the earth the faster time passes due to the pull of gravity being slightly weaker the further you move away from the earth. It has been demonstrated that even a difference of one foot of altitude results in measurable differences in the rate of the passage of time.
Physicists used extremely accurate atomic clocks to calculate how time flows more slowly the closer someone is to Earth. The researchers found that even a height difference of around 1 foot (33 centimeters) causes a measurable change in the passing of time. For example, if one twin spent 79 years living at an altitude 1 foot higher than her sister, the first twin would end up approximately 90 billionths of a second older, the researchers found.
The scientists measured this by using super-sensitive clocks, each made of a single charged aluminum atom that vibrates between two energy levels over a million billion times per second. They placed one clock at a higher elevation in the lab than the other, and found, just as Einstein predicted, that the higher clock ran slightly faster than the lower clock.
Some people on this thread have denied that time is real. But science has demonstrated that time is relative and passes more slowly for objects moving at higher rates of speed relative to slower objects. Additionally, time moves at different rates of speed depending on the strength of a gravitation field. The further you move away from the surface of the earth the faster time passes due to the pull of gravity being slightly weaker the further you move away from the earth. It has been demonstrated that even a difference of one foot of altitude results in measurable differences in the rate of the passage of time.
Physicists used extremely accurate atomic clocks to calculate how time flows more slowly the closer someone is to Earth. The researchers found that even a height difference of around 1 foot (33 centimeters) causes a measurable change in the passing of time. For example, if one twin spent 79 years living at an altitude 1 foot higher than her sister, the first twin would end up approximately 90 billionths of a second older, the researchers found.
The scientists measured this by using super-sensitive clocks, each made of a single charged aluminum atom that vibrates between two energy levels over a million billion times per second. They placed one clock at a higher elevation in the lab than the other, and found, just as Einstein predicted, that the higher clock ran slightly faster than the lower clock.
The philosophers might not accept that, but science wins out.
Time. You mean like the time I wasted reading this. I think everybody has heard about this time explanation, and using this to imagine a time machine. You better live for now, yesterday is gone forever.
Unfortunately, none if this is at all my experiences. No where is anything regular. So, all this is, is another myth wrapped with some scientific jargon. It sounds good though.
Objects inertially in motion are, in your experience, jerky?
Time is simply Change. Without Change there would be no Time. Time is measurable because Change occurs with reliable Regularity: years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds, etc.
Time is simply Change. Without Change there would be no Time. Time is measurable because Change occurs with reliable Regularity: years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds, etc.
No, you are describing clocks, not time. And even clocks are irregular. So your comments have no basis either in science or common experience.
When I was still in high school, my geography teacher had a device that made time go much slower. Other classes seemed long and boring but he somehow managed to make geography class last for what seemed like forever. Never experienced anything like this again since high school.
In science, clocks are more important than actual human experience. In philosophy, real human experience takes precedence over clocks. The difference is that living is different and more interesting than a mechanical clock.
Time is a space in which you exist. Your body is a clock starting from your first breath to your last. On your last breath time will stop of your body and mind. In the moments it took to read this millions of stars and planets have already died and stars have been reborn in the time and space in the universe. The scope of what time is can not be measured only know that you cant change time only events :-) Those who look to control time or understand it are wasting their time. Time is only existence but it would be nice to see all events of time and the future ones. Because in the future I predict you will read this and think of me typing it pondering at what time did you read it in the future. 2 minutes from now 2 million years from now. But was it time :-) Which is why you have the time stamp feature wouldnt it be nice if all of time and events had that.. Maybe it does in GOD blue print. Enjoy.
No, you are describing clocks, not time. And even clocks are irregular. So your comments have no basis either in science or common experience.
Nope, time requires change. He is describing what time essentially is. You are analogizing it to an object which you understand, but missing the point. Without some change somewhere, there is no time. It has nothing to do with clocks nor humans. Nor existence per se, thought it seems inseparable therefrom.
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