Time as a basic concept is real, yes.
To humans, time passes which causes events to unfold and aging to occur.
Scientifically, time is also real.
I also somewhat agree with "gravity creates time". Sort of. There's certainly a relation. I mean, if you stay just outside of a black hole's event horizon, time with slow for you dependent on the mass of black hole (I forget the relation between mass and how much it slows time). So in theory you could sit on the edge of an event horizon for 10 minutes and when you come out, 10 years has passed for people on Earth (again, dependent on the mass of the black hole).
Time can be measured, so its real.
I heard somewhere that time is the fourth demention and we living in the third move through it or something.
"You know the guy who came up with the first watch - how'd he know what time it was? [I]He just made it up.[/I]"
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=338Oo6p7Elk[/media]
[QUOTE=Corndog Ninja;33113224]"You know the guy who came up with the first watch - how'd he know what time it was? [I]He just made it up.[/I]"
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=338Oo6p7Elk[/media][/QUOTE]
He is awesome. I like his old theme song better than the new one.
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;33104101]Time is not a unit.[/QUOTE]
Time is a measure of change.
Time is 11:07
[QUOTE=JustGman;33014790]Time doesn't stop or slow down for anything, fall back/spring forward is pointless and retarded.[/QUOTE]
Actually, time dilates exponentially as speed of the observer nears the speed of light. And if I remember rightly, it also dilates in a bell curve as you near a black hole.
This is just plain silly.
Time is a measurement dependant on the frame of reference that you(or it) are currently in. It's the rate of things, it just depends on a bunch of factors as to how fast it goes relative to everything else.
If we were to start talking about time as passing at the same speed in all places(Mr.Sexy Black Hole) then you could argue that it's just a thought tool for humans.
And philosophy is for faggots.
[QUOTE=Man Without Hat;33116424]Actually, time dilates exponentially as speed of the observer nears the speed of light. And if I remember rightly, it also dilates in a bell curve as you near a black hole.[/QUOTE]
A bell curve? No. The proper time interval between events in two reference frames increases monotonically as the gravitational potential difference between the frames increases.
Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey
I know @Zakkin beat me to it, but oh well
DMT is a hell of a drug.
Time is just a word.
Humans didn't invent time, we just invented a way of measuring it.
Time is what stops everything from happening all at once.
I like the theory that we are in one everlasting moment. And time travel is impossible because everything is occurring right now. We just invented a way to measure "time" for our own benefit, based on days, rotations of the earth etc.
[QUOTE=Lukasaurus;33168571]I like the theory that we are in one everlasting moment. And time travel is impossible because everything is occurring right now. We just invented a way to measure "time" for our own benefit, based on days, rotations of the earth etc.[/QUOTE]
That doesn't make sense, you're just confusing language. If different "days," different instants of the rotation of the earth exist, then different moments exist by the usual understanding of what constitutes a "moment."
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I like Dr. Manhattan's claim in Watchmen that "time is simultaneous" but his language is imprecise. What he means is that every moment exists as part of a great big four-dimensional object that is the time evolution of the entire universe, and we only see three-dimensional slices of the entire thing. The problem with his language is that simultaneity depends on frame of reference.
Screw time, let things be.
[video=youtube;GmMxCGCkcwE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmMxCGCkcwE[/video]
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