concept of time

[rh71]

Where did the concept of time keeping come from ? By whom and how was it invented ?

What a great way to keep track of events / scheduling ! They even figured out daylight vs. nighttime vs. zones vs. DST! Amazing !

 

[Norrlands]

Time.gov should give you all the answers you need.Time.gov

 

[K1052]

Is someone trying to make Lifer today?

 

[Reel]

Next question: where did the concept of wasting time come from?

 

[Gravity]

I guess as the sun rose and set, cycles of days and nights passed someone must have asked, how many times have I dont this? why do I keep doing it and how long before I stop doing it?

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: K1052
Is someone trying to make Lifer today?

LOL... I feel like a kid again.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Now this could be an interesting topic.

Does time even exist? If so, what is it "made" of? Someone will respond with chronons, but chronons are as well evidenced as the deus ex machina particles from Star Trek. If time has no objective reality, how do we perceive it? Is it an artificial construct, or is it something beyond our comprehension? Something we are aware of, but have as much ability to understand as a squirrel would the principles of that transformer it is about to jump on....ZAP! Poor Mr. Squirrel. He saw, yet he could not understand.

Lets hope we fare better

 

[rh71]

You know how they say: ____ has withstood the test of time ?

Well HTF did time withstand the test of time ? What geniuses they were!

 

[IGBT]

It's a human concept used to measure our life events and life it self. Otherwise it doesn't exist...

 

[FrOsTxxbYtE]

Originally posted by: IGBT
It's a human concept used to measure our life events and life it self. Otherwise it doesn't exist...

interesting...
:clock:

 

[K1052]

Time stands still for no man.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Originally posted by: IGBT
It's a human concept used to measure our life events and life it self. Otherwise it doesn't exist...

How do you know this though?

 

[Vic]

The railroads invented the concept of time zones less than 150 years ago.

As for time itself, IMO it exists but is not made up of any particles. Time is change. Because of gravity, we live in a universe of constant movement, therefore change is constant and cannot be avoided. Our measurements of time are abitrary concepts that we have created in our efforts to better understand this constant changing.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Originally posted by: Vic
The railroads invented the concept of time zones less than 150 years ago.

As for time itself, IMO it exists but is not made up of any particles. Time is change. Because of gravity, we live in a universe of constant movement, therefore change is constant and cannot be avoided. Our measurements of time are abitrary concepts that we have created in our efforts to better understand this constant changing.

In this sense though spacial dimensions could be artificial constructs too. Movement happens, solid objects exist (or seem to) and therefore dimensions may be "created" as a framework to explain it. Interesting to think the Universe isn't much more than an artificial construct, or perhaps better worded, our limited framework for "reality" in an ultimate objective sense. The root problem is that we are limited beings, and I believe we are capable of understand exactly what we are capable of understanding. That does not mean we place constraints on what can exist however.

 

[Rob9874]

When did time begin, and what started it? And what came before it (if something can exist before time). Will time ever end? If you think about it enough, you will go crazy. I have anxiety attacks sometimes when I think about how long time will continue. Not 10,000 or a million years down the road, that's conceivable. I'm talking about after the universe has died. What happens?

 

[IcemanJer]

Originally posted by: ReelC00L
Next question: where did the concept of wasting time come from?

ATOT, clearly.