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Old 01-18-2007, 10:38 PM   #6
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Default Re: Is Time Tangible?

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Originally Posted by ledwix View Post
Time isn't very tangible. It does exist, though. We see its effects and know it's there. Time is actually partially an invention and partially an observed phenomena. It's kind of a concept of continuous existence.

Clocks are able to ticket very precisely at one-second intervals. If time didn't exist, clocks would have no fixed intervals of ticking, because there would be no way to measure how precise the ticks were. There would be no purpose, either. The way in which we measure how precise or accurate something is, or how long something occurs, is called time. It does exist from this logical standpoint. That is because it is being defined as a concept.
Uhm... clocks are only percise because we say they are. They dont just tick on their own you know... Years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds, etc. were concepts developed by man to explain when a specific event happened in relation to another one.
Time is relative to the spin of the planet you are on, so if you lived on say mars for your whole life you wouldnt think time is faster there because to you that is how fast things move.
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