What is time?

[angiebear]

Tick tick tock goes the clock, as both it and yourself propel ever forward along the arrow of time. A second passes. You are still there. Nothing has changed. You have just become another second older.

One day the clock will tick, and your heart will stop beating forever. No-one can escape the fate of death. Death and time are inextricably linked.

But what are they?

That is the ultimate question that i wish to pose in this new thread.

 

[Fenny]

42

 

[dani]

Someone needs to see a shrink very soon

 

[somehuman]

time is a calibrated unit in which the earth travels around the sun

An interesting side note is there are both 60 minutes in an hour and a degree

 

[Headswirl]

You need to ask this question to one of our more intellectually gifted members.

With say an IQ of 140 or more.

 

[Pompal 09.]

Hmmm.... Does anyone know a member that might qualify? :???:

Anyone? :???:

Bueller? uch:

(Dam... never a Mensa member around when you need one... **sigh**)

 

[NotInsaneINC]

I once had my IQ tested

got my results and attended my first MENSA meeting and my last.

Turns out at 14 most the members did not drink

IQs tend to be over rated when it comes to common sense

 

[TheSoyEatsYou]

That's the problem with IQ tests: if one isn't educated that doesn't mean they are, or are not, intelligent........

I took one test that had me count how many green objects were in one photo, then answer on the next page......I'm blue green colour blind so I didn't see ANY green objects.....how is THAT a measure of intelligence? (it was supposed to test your short term memory).

Time is a theoretical method of breaking up our day into segments.

I still don't quite get (even though it has been explained to me) why travelling at FTL will cause you to experince time differently.

 

[Scarecrow Man]

If we were blind, would we have a concept of time?

We divided the day because we could see the sun appear to move across the sky and the month because we saw the moon in different phases.
We may have remembered and recorded how some cycles repeat themselves but it would have taken longer to recognize them.

Maybe we wouldn't have been obsessed by time and something else would have evolved to guide us?

 

[michelenergy]

Better check your math, CG.


The answer is obviously
69

 

[Chetco]

69 is the best!

**Note to self- Art Mann is NOT a Douglas Adams fan**...

 

[rainbow153]

I remember Elvis was 42 when he died, back then he seemed so old and had been irrelevant for years to me.
Today I wish I could be 42 again, it would feel so young.

 

[greatdeals_007]

WRONG!!!! If you were right, then no earth would equal no time...but I'm sure it would still pass even if our entire galaxy never existed. Time is the passage of events. What you are talking about is a human abstraction of the measurement of the passing of events. :



As for death...no ones ever come back from it to report. IMO, death is it...the parts of our body that make us live cease to function properly. Once the brain loses its ability to transfer electrical impulses through our neurons, thats it...end of story...prepare for your molecules and atoms to be recycled into something else. I don't really understand why people think that we have this everlasting "soul" thing but animals and plants, which are made up of pretty much the same stuff we are, do not have them.


And yet I still find myself trying to be a good person, even against things I may selfishly want. Why? I don't have a fear of a bad afterlife or reincarnation as an inferior creature. Who am I being good for? I guess, for myself. I'm the only one who can really decide if what I do is good or evil, right or wrong.

(what a ramble)

 

[Ashille]

Hey Prim0, you're going to piss off a lot of religious fanatics if you keep talking like that.....I think what people are referring to as the soul is reinforced by the fact that supposedly we lose 21 grams at the moment of death. So, your soul weighs 21 grams lol.....

You're actually referring to "brain death" not death itself. Death in layman's terms is when your heart stops beating but that is only the beginning of death. Brain death actually begins to occur approximately 4 minutes after the heart stops beating.

These days with modern resuscitation techniques, millions of people every day are brought back from death.

When you read up on near death experiences that "bright light" that so many talk about seeing is those neurons starting to misfire and the moving into the light is the brain or parts of the brain that make us...us....are actually starting to fade. Kind of like the term "falling asleep". We don't actually fall......

But yeah, we all end up as worm food and there is no heaven, hell, paradise, reincarnation etc. Maybe if more people realized this there'd be a lot less problems in the world......

 

[Lebeautemps]

Hey tboy... you're going to piss off a lot of religious fanatics if you keep talking like that...

:na:

 

[paladin]

just religious fanatics? My goal is to piss off everyone eventually lol

 

[Reggie K]

 

[hvn_fun2]

Who would be around to care?

 

[Me!!!]

1...Isn't that loss of weight when the soul leaves the body thing from the last Dan Brown book? I'm pretty sure that's fiction. I can't believe that anybody has conducted an accurate verifiable test that the body actually loses mass at the moment of death.

2. I could care less about pissing people off. They have their beliefs, I have mine. I don't judge them on theirs...they can piss off about mine.

3. Near death experiences can also be triggered by stimulating a certain part of the brain. I'm saying that there is no actual evidence of an afterlife. No one has actually been beyond complete death and come back again. (that I've heard of).

When my time comes, I'm either be proven right or wrong and I'll deal with that when the time comes.

 

[Tressa Marie]

For one...all the other civilizations the exist, have existed, or will exist through the universe. Look at the odds...with all of those galaxies...all of those stars...all of those planets...so many that are similar to ours...even a one in a trillion chance of life beginning and surviving to our level of technology on another planet out there are almost gauranteed! Look at the ego it takes to think that only on earth has life arisen. I'm sure all those ETs would therefor be around to care.

Ha!