What is 'time'?

[Dextersmate]

Time is 8.44 mate

Not now bud,you,re wrong.

 

[dronefromsector7g]

Time... she flexes like a whore

Guys its not funny. Either answer the OP with mature answers or log off. Just grow up please.

Falls wanking to the floor...

Her trick is you and me, Drone

I'm tired of this stuff. Just think about it. It's pathetic. We're supposed to be responsible adults here.

 

[Damocles]

Time is a part of the fabric of the Universe, in fact we call this fabric "spacetime" as a way of representing the fundamental ingredients.

At the simplest possible level, time is just observed entropy. Entropy is the thermodynamic variable that states that the older something becomes the more disordered it must get. For example, when you were first created all of your cells were in the right place and working and none of them were cancerous. As you passed through time, your entropy increased and many of your cells died or were modified in some way to become more disordered. This is why we age, how mechanical/electrical stuff ages and how stars blow up.

At a little more complicated level, time is cross-direction to space on a two dimensional (x and y axis) grid. The reason that the speed of light is 186k miles a second is nothing to do with light itself and is instead to do with the interaction of space and time. We all know that increasing the speed of something is harder the heavier it is. I can throw a tennis ball but I can't throw a car because it is more massive. Mass is the "drag" on the speed of objects in the Universe and the faster they go the more mass they accumulate. Just as if I roll a ball bearing to you it isn't very heavy but if I shoot it at you out of a large gun then the force you are hit with increases.

The speed of light is the maximum speed because it has no mass. Because light travels at the maximum speed possible through space then it doesn't experience the effects of time. That's a somewhat inaccurate example because light doesn't technically "move" either but forget that for now, the point is to show the relationship between space and time.

Here's a better way of explaining it. Think of two power gauges that are linked together with the maximum any one can reach being 100%. So normally we might experience 50% speed of time and 50% movement through space. As we increase the speed of movement through space to 80%, our speed through time drops to 20%. This is sort of a consequence of relativity and was a great discovery.

Time is different things depending on the person you ask. I would say that time is change and without change time does not exist. This is also why I believe the Big Bang needed no creator - because time was "invented" at that point thus the idea of cause and effect (a law that is a consequence of time) had no meaning.
With that said, time is a real thing that is built into the fabric of the Universe and effects us daily.

 

[Dextersmate]

Guys its not funny. Either answer the OP with mature answers or log off. Just grow up please.

Falls wanking to the floor...

Her trick is you and me, Drone

I'm tired of this stuff. Just think about it. It's pathetic. We're supposed to be responsible adults here.

You,re on your own there.

 

[BigJimLittleJim]

I do not believe there is anything predetermined, it's all random and chaotic

Apparently random and apparently chaotic, but only because the chain of events is so complex. Think of throwing dozens of rubber balls into a box and watching them bounce around all over the place, colliding with each other. It looks random and chaotic, but their movements are determined by the initial speed and direction the balls entered the box, the makeup of the box structure, the air within the box, the makeup of the rubber compounds, any spin on the balls and the laws of physics. Given that particular set of variables the balls will always behave in exactly the same way. The universe, to my mind, is much the same, only with a much more complex set of variables.

and what the fuck is a multiverse out of science fiction?

It's a fairly well accepted theory that there may be an endless array of alternate universes within which all possible scenarios are played out. Basically multiple boxes that you throw the rubber balls into, but in one you throw the second ball slightly harder whilst in another you throw a wooden ball in instead and so on.

It's not that well accepted

Not by me, but if it keeps the nerds amused :)

(Not you Irwell, the boffins making this shit up instead of inventing something useful like hovercars)

 

[BimboBob]

Do I have time for a wank before Metallica or should I wait until after?

 

[BigJimLittleJim]

Time is a part of the fabric of the Universe, in fact we call this fabric "spacetime" as a way of representing the fundamental ingredients.

At the simplest possible level, time is just observed entropy. Entropy is the thermodynamic variable that states that the older something becomes the more disordered it must get. For example, when you were first created all of your cells were in the right place and working and none of them were cancerous. As you passed through time, your entropy increased and many of your cells died or were modified in some way to become more disordered. This is why we age, how mechanical/electrical stuff ages and how stars blow up.

At a little more complicated level, time is cross-direction to space on a two dimensional (x and y axis) grid. The reason that the speed of light is 186k miles a second is nothing to do with light itself and is instead to do with the interaction of space and time. We all know that increasing the speed of something is harder the heavier it is. I can throw a tennis ball but I can't throw a car because it is more massive. Mass is the "drag" on the speed of objects in the Universe and the faster they go the more mass they accumulate. Just as if I roll a ball bearing to you it isn't very heavy but if I shoot it at you out of a large gun then the force you are hit with increases.

The speed of light is the maximum speed because it has no mass. Because light travels at the maximum speed possible through space then it doesn't experience the effects of time. That's a somewhat inaccurate example because light doesn't technically "move" either but forget that for now, the point is to show the relationship between space and time.

Here's a better way of explaining it. Think of two power gauges that are linked together with the maximum any one can reach being 100%. So normally we might experience 50% speed of time and 50% movement through space. As we increase the speed of movement through space to 80%, our speed through time drops to 20%. This is sort of a consequence of relativity and was a great discovery.

Time is different things depending on the person you ask. I would say that time is change and without change time does not exist. This is also why I believe the Big Bang needed no creator - because time was "invented" at that point thus the idea of cause and effect (a law that is a consequence of time) had no meaning.
With that said, time is a real thing that is built into the fabric of the Universe and effects us daily.

Rag.

 

[Irwell]

It's not that well accepted

The theory is well accepted in terms of it not having been disproved, it's just a very difficult thing to prove or disprove. There is little evidence to point to it existing, but there is also little evidence to point to it not existing. Hawking is an advocate of the theory.

 

[jay_mcfc]

At the simplest possible level, time is just observed entropy.

That's the simplest possible level?

 

[Lavinda Past]

Guys its not funny. Either answer the OP with mature answers or log off. Just grow up please.

Falls wanking to the floor...

Her trick is you and me, Drone

I'm tired of this stuff. Just think about it. It's pathetic. We're supposed to be responsible adults here.