OK-this is a huge question with many possible replies. Is it simply directional as physical phenomena suggests? No. I doubt if anyone believes that as we can visualise past experience through memory and constructs of knowledge.
In another related question, I pointed out how religions employ the past to insinuate universal authenticity-the Mormons recruit everyone after death, Islam recruits real or imagined religious figures to insinuate its relationship to infinity, Christianity, after its prophets death, recruited YHWH for the same or similar purposes. He might have been limited in time, but not his time in infinity.
But there are so other understandings and metaphors of time: subject entirely to physical phenomena through the Big Bang: connected to autobiographical memory through external events and affect (Freud).
Time, it never returned once it goes.
Time is world most prestigious thing that never make any difference between a poor or rich.
Yes but one knows its important and utilized it but other not.
another thing, we always hear that if you can change your time...you can change your life
Peter, time is measured as interaction between two physical objects usually through the observation of an observor. Velocity therefore comes into the equation.
Time can therefore be viewed as the result of the Big Bang, when matter emerged and separated.
First of all I'd say that time is an abstract concepts invented by human race to measure the "distance" (not spatial) between two or more happenings.
And to be honest I don't thing that this directional notion of time and the fact that we can visualize past events don't go along well together. In my opinion our ability to memorize is due to evolution for it wouldn't have ended well for any species if it had to try out it's food for the first time each time and to figure out that a predator is a predator every time a predator occurs. Being able to resort to heuristics is a crucial part of surviving I guess...
I think it's the fact that the concept of time is used extensively as metaphor in so many different ways and fields that makes it so hard to really define it. A physician will argue with the Big Bang and different happenings that followed etc... while in religion when talking about time there are often the notions of limited time on earth as a living human being and infinity after passing away and so on and so forth.
Time as a concept that can be talked and thought about is quite abstract I'd say but actually most things in nature occur, disappear and reoccur (so on and so forth) in more or less exact intervals. So time is a quite important part of every living beings life.
And at least just to get this straight: I don't claim to define time in any kind of way. This was just some thinking on it!
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I've come across a paper on RG that suggests that Time is a sort of force. Is this at all possible as I do not think the idea should be rejected out of hand? It has merit.
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