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Guys (and gilrs) what do you define time as? Everyday you talk about it, you use phrases such as "there's no time left" but isn't it infinate? So post away :p

Time's what you make of it.

an instance or single occasion for some event; "this time he succeeded"; "he called four times"; "he could do ten at a clip"
an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities); "he waited a long time"; "the time of year for planting"; "he was a great actor is his time"
a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something; "take time to smell the roses"; "I didn't have time to finish"; "it took more than half my time"
a suitable moment; "it is time to go"
the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
clock time: the time as given by a clock; "do you know what time it is?"; "the time is 10 o'clock"
clock: measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time; "he clocked the runners"
fourth dimension: the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event
assign a time for an activity or event; "The candidate carefully timed his appearance at the disaster scene"
a person's experience on a particular occasion; "he had a time holding back the tears"; "they had a good time together"
set the speed, duration, or execution of; "we time the process to manufacture our cars very precisely"
meter: rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
regulate or set the time of; "time the clock"
prison term: the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned; "he served a prison term of 15 months"; "his sentence was 5 to 10 years"; "he is doing time in the county jail"
adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time; "The good player times his swing so as to hit the ball squarely"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Attempting to understand the nature of Time has always been a prime occupation for philosophers and scientists. Perhaps as a result of this considerable discussion, it is difficult to provide an uncontroversial and clear definition of the nature of time. This article begins by looking at some of the main philosophical and scientific issues relating to time.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time

Time (officially capitalized TIME) is a weekly American newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report. A European edition (Time Europe, formerly known as Time Atlantic) is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and (since 2003) Latin America. An Asian edition (Time Asia) is based in Hong Kong. A Canadian edition (Time Canada) is based in Toronto. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIME

In computational complexity theory, the complexity class DTIME(f(n)) or TIME(f(n)) is the set of decision problems that can be solved by a deterministic Turing machine using time O(f(n)), and unlimited space.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIME(f(n))

Time is one of the more famous songs from the Dark Side of the Moon album by Pink Floyd. It is noted for its long introductory passage of clocks chiming and alarms ringing, followed by an eerie two-minute passage dominated by Nick Mason's rototoms. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(song)

Time is a concept album by Electric Light Orchestra. It was released in 1981 (see 1981 in music). In 2001 it was reissued with three additional tracks that were B-sides of singles from the original album.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(album)

Time or in Albanian Ora is a political party in Kosovo founded in the summer of 2004 by Veton Surroi, a famous Kosovar publicist. At the last legislative elections, 24 october 2004, the party won 6.2 % of the popular vote and 7 out of 120 seats in the Assembly of Kosovo and together with the Democratic Party of Kosovo forms one of the strongest oppositions in the region. Ora stands for a independent, free and democratic Kosovo.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(Kosovo)

In baseball, when the ball is dead, no runners may advance beyond bases they are entitled to, and no runners may be put out. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(baseball)

This article is about a Unix command. If you are looking for Unix's means of representing points in time, see Unix time.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(Unix)

Time was formed in 1971 by Adolf Dado Topić (vocals) after leaving his previous band Korni Grupa. The original line-up consisted of, in addition to Topić, Tihomir Pop Asanović (organ), Vedran Božić (guitar), Mario Mavrin (bass), Ratko Divjak (drums) and Brane Lambert Živković (piano and flute). Time frequently changed line up and after three albums and many tours disbanded in late 1977 and Topić started his solo career. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(rock_band)

Time is the last studio album by the "classic" Klinik lineup of Dirk Ivens and Marc Verhaeghen. Due to mounting tensions and musical differences, Ivens left shortly after the recording to pursue a solo career as Dive.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(Klinik_album)

An expression used to stop the action on a hand. Equivalent to "Hold it."
www.homepokertourney.com/poker-glossary.htm

For practical purposes, the same as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The notation formerly used to identify time Greenwich MeanTime. The word "Zulu" is notation in the phonetic alphabet corresponding to the letter "Z" assigned to the time zone on the Greenwich Prime Meridian.
www.srh.weather.gov/srh/jetstream/append/glossary_z.htm

meter, as in "3/4 time."
memory.loc.gov/ammem/hrhtml/hrgloss.html

Typically used to indicate a specific Time of Day (local time zone). When used in a Criteria box, "Morning" means between 12:01am and 11:59am, "Midday" means 10:00am to 4:00pm, "Afternoon" means 12:00pm to 5:00pm, and "Evening" means 5:01pm to 11:59pm
www.wcsra.org/terminology.php

Who knows what time really is? Whatever time is, in the Orrery Sky pages we refer to local time (ie of the location from which one wants to observe the sky). In the other pages, we use US Central Standard Time (which is Universal Time (or Greenwich Mean Time) +6 hours).
www.scienceu.com/observatory/facts/glossary.html

the Center for the Tsunami Inundation Mapping Effort, to assist the Pacific states in developing tsunami inundation maps; this Center is a part of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory.
www.csc.noaa.gov/products/tsunamis/htm/cascadia/terms.htm

isikhathi (Z) Forefinger or forefinger and second finger tap top of wrist.
www.aaanet.org/sla/jla/brookes_dictionary/t.htm

Time the image was taken, PST
physics.usc.edu/solar/FITS.html

Units are hours:minutes:seconds in UTC (Universal Time Coordinated).
messenger.jhuapl.edu/missiondesignLive/manueverdescriptions.html

(Bowie): Song on ALADDIN SANE (1973) which was banned by the BBC due to its explicit reference to masturbation (...falls wanking to the floor...) It was performed on the 2 nd US Tour, the Japanese Tour and the 3 rd UK Tour. The offending phrase was edited out of the sole ABC TV screening of the ZIGGY STARDUST - THE MOTION PICTURE in October 1974 but was reintroduced for its 1983 release. ...
www.5years.com/encyt.htm

The amount of time consumers spent reading or looking at their newspaper both on weekdays and Sundays. One of three elements comprising the Reader Behavior Score, along with frequency and completeness.
www.readership.org/institute/definitions.htm

Duration as measured by some clock. Atomic clocks give the most accurate measure of time. Less regular timekeepers are those based on the rotation of the earth and other bodies of the solar system.
amsglossary.allenpress.com/glossary/browse

The term ``time'' is used in the sense of ``simulation time'' and expresses an elapsed time since a reference date. These time values follow the convention for time coordinates supported by the COARDS [2] and CF [3] metadata conventions.
www.ccsm.ucar.edu/models/atm-cam/docs/time-manager/node3.html

services support synchronization of clocks in a distributed system. This is the same as the distributed time service in the Distributed Computing service category.
www.opengroup.org/architecture/togaf7-doc/arch/p3/trm/tx/tx_objec.htm

at which the seminar will be held
www.msci.memphis.edu/~franklin/learning_concepts.html

Time is not an elementary concept. We do not have a sense for time. Time is a concept based on elementary concepts. We observe distance, velocity and oscillatory movements but not time. In physics we say that time is distance divided by velocity. Do not confuse "time" with a sequence of events. Several sensations are stored in the order they occurred. That is primary information, it is something existing in our brains or the computer memory of an artificial intelligent system. ...
www.intelligent-systems.com.ar/intsyst/misuse.htm

Theosophy speaks of absolute undivided time or duration, and of manifested or divided time: the former as causal or noumenal, the latter as effectual or phenomenal, and therefore mayavi or illusional. "Time is only an illusion produced by the succession of our states of consciousness as we travel through eternal duration, and it does not exist where no consciousness exists in which the illusion can be produced; but 'lies asleep' " (SD 1:37). ...
www.theosociety.org/pasadena/etgloss/tho-tre.htm

The times used in Part I are in Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST). AEST is the mean solar time on the meridian of longitude of 150 degrees East. For Australian Central Standard Time (ACST) subtract 30 minutes from the times given. For other time zones make the appropriate adjustments. No adjustments have been made in this book for Daylight Saving, also known as 'Summer Time'. When daylight saving is in force, the time is one hour ahead of AEST. ...
www.quasarastronomy.com.au/article08.htm

In the History Lab learning center we examine time in its biological, geological, and mechanical/physical forms. Other aspects of time, such as change, chronology, perceptual vocabulary and dimensions can be applied to all three of these "faces" of time.
www.washingtonhistory.org/wshs/columbia/articles/0101-s1.htm

A request by a player to suspend play while he decides what he's going to do. If a player doesn't request time and there is a substantial amount of action behind him, the dealer may rule that the player has folded.
www.gambleversity.com/poker/poker-glossary-term.php

This variable is set to true when the player first types a command. If at no time during the processing of that command it is set to false, two things will happen. Firstly, the variable TOTAL_MOVES will be incremented by one. Secondly, the eachturn functions will be executed if they exist.
jacl.sourceforge.net/guide/definitions.html

on Target; the scheduled time that a flight is to attack a given target; especially important to attack on time when several flights are attacking other targets in the same general area.
skyraider.org/hook/glossary.htm

This is the number of months a job lasts each year multiplied by full time (1) or part-time (.5) status. All part-time jobs are coded as half time. We estimated part time, full time status of existing jobs based on information from the 1993 household survey and conversations with local people. The number of months is entered in the column labeled Seasons.
www.taiga.net/sustain/lib/models/scenarios/baseline/datadefinitions.htm

[A23/B37] Generally, Kant defines time as "a determinate form...in which alone the intuition of inner states is possible", adding "and everything which belongs to inner states is therefore represented in relations of time....space and time are such that they belong only to the form of intuition, and therefore to the subjective constitution of our mind, apart from which they could not be ascribed to anything whatsoever". ...
www.texttribe.com/text/kant_glossary.htm

Every person, society and environment is located in time and is changing through time. Our perceptions of time as past, present and future are also important for social enquiry and action. These perceptions draw on past events that influence our present. They need not, however, determine our future. We can perceive a range of possible futures that can assist our decision-making.
members.ozemail.com.au/~mghslib/subjects/society%20culture/Glossary.htm

Nice, i'm presuming it was copy and paste? LOL well how abt this, there's no such thing as exact time is there?

Time's what you make of it.

What do YOU make of it?

an instance or single occasion for some event; "this time he succeeded"; "he called four times"; "he could do ten at a clip"
an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities); "he waited a long time"; "the time of year for planting"; "he was a great actor is his time"
a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something; "take time to smell the roses"; "I didn't have time to finish"; "it took more than half my time"
a suitable moment; "it is time to go"
the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
clock time: the time as given by a clock; "do you know what time it is?"; "the time is 10 o'clock"
clock: measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time; "he clocked the runners"
fourth dimension: the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event
assign a time for an activity or event; "The candidate carefully timed his appearance at the disaster scene"
a person's experience on a particular occasion; "he had a time holding back the tears"; "they had a good time together"
set the speed, duration, or execution of; "we time the process to manufacture our cars very precisely"
meter: rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
regulate or set the time of; "time the clock"
prison term: the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned; "he served a prison term of 15 months"; "his sentence was 5 to 10 years"; "he is doing time in the county jail"
adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time; "The good player times his swing so as to hit the ball squarely"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Attempting to understand the nature of Time has always been a prime occupation for philosophers and scientists. Perhaps as a result of this considerable discussion, it is difficult to provide an uncontroversial and clear definition of the nature of time. This article begins by looking at some of the main philosophical and scientific issues relating to time.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time

Time (officially capitalized TIME) is a weekly American newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report. A European edition (Time Europe, formerly known as Time Atlantic) is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and (since 2003) Latin America. An Asian edition (Time Asia) is based in Hong Kong. A Canadian edition (Time Canada) is based in Toronto. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIME

In computational complexity theory, the complexity class DTIME(f(n)) or TIME(f(n)) is the set of decision problems that can be solved by a deterministic Turing machine using time O(f(n)), and unlimited space.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIME(f(n))

Time is one of the more famous songs from the Dark Side of the Moon album by Pink Floyd. It is noted for its long introductory passage of clocks chiming and alarms ringing, followed by an eerie two-minute passage dominated by Nick Mason's rototoms. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(song)

Time is a concept album by Electric Light Orchestra. It was released in 1981 (see 1981 in music). In 2001 it was reissued with three additional tracks that were B-sides of singles from the original album.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(album)

Time or in Albanian Ora is a political party in Kosovo founded in the summer of 2004 by Veton Surroi, a famous Kosovar publicist. At the last legislative elections, 24 october 2004, the party won 6.2 % of the popular vote and 7 out of 120 seats in the Assembly of Kosovo and together with the Democratic Party of Kosovo forms one of the strongest oppositions in the region. Ora stands for a independent, free and democratic Kosovo.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(Kosovo)

In baseball, when the ball is dead, no runners may advance beyond bases they are entitled to, and no runners may be put out. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(baseball)

This article is about a Unix command. If you are looking for Unix's means of representing points in time, see Unix time.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(Unix)

Time was formed in 1971 by Adolf Dado Topić (vocals) after leaving his previous band Korni Grupa. The original line-up consisted of, in addition to Topić, Tihomir Pop Asanović (organ), Vedran Božić (guitar), Mario Mavrin (bass), Ratko Divjak (drums) and Brane Lambert Živković (piano and flute). Time frequently changed line up and after three albums and many tours disbanded in late 1977 and Topić started his solo career. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(rock_band)

Time is the last studio album by the "classic" Klinik lineup of Dirk Ivens and Marc Verhaeghen. Due to mounting tensions and musical differences, Ivens left shortly after the recording to pursue a solo career as Dive.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(Klinik_album)

An expression used to stop the action on a hand. Equivalent to "Hold it."
www.homepokertourney.com/poker-glossary.htm

For practical purposes, the same as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The notation formerly used to identify time Greenwich MeanTime. The word "Zulu" is notation in the phonetic alphabet corresponding to the letter "Z" assigned to the time zone on the Greenwich Prime Meridian.
www.srh.weather.gov/srh/jetstream/append/glossary_z.htm

meter, as in "3/4 time."
memory.loc.gov/ammem/hrhtml/hrgloss.html

Typically used to indicate a specific Time of Day (local time zone). When used in a Criteria box, "Morning" means between 12:01am and 11:59am, "Midday" means 10:00am to 4:00pm, "Afternoon" means 12:00pm to 5:00pm, and "Evening" means 5:01pm to 11:59pm
www.wcsra.org/terminology.php

Who knows what time really is? Whatever time is, in the Orrery Sky pages we refer to local time (ie of the location from which one wants to observe the sky). In the other pages, we use US Central Standard Time (which is Universal Time (or Greenwich Mean Time) +6 hours).
www.scienceu.com/observatory/facts/glossary.html

the Center for the Tsunami Inundation Mapping Effort, to assist the Pacific states in developing tsunami inundation maps; this Center is a part of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory.
www.csc.noaa.gov/products/tsunamis/htm/cascadia/terms.htm

isikhathi (Z) Forefinger or forefinger and second finger tap top of wrist.
www.aaanet.org/sla/jla/brookes_dictionary/t.htm

Time the image was taken, PST
physics.usc.edu/solar/FITS.html

Units are hours:minutes:seconds in UTC (Universal Time Coordinated).
messenger.jhuapl.edu/missiondesignLive/manueverdescriptions.html

(Bowie): Song on ALADDIN SANE (1973) which was banned by the BBC due to its explicit reference to masturbation (...falls wanking to the floor...) It was performed on the 2 nd US Tour, the Japanese Tour and the 3 rd UK Tour. The offending phrase was edited out of the sole ABC TV screening of the ZIGGY STARDUST - THE MOTION PICTURE in October 1974 but was reintroduced for its 1983 release. ...
www.5years.com/encyt.htm

The amount of time consumers spent reading or looking at their newspaper both on weekdays and Sundays. One of three elements comprising the Reader Behavior Score, along with frequency and completeness.
www.readership.org/institute/definitions.htm

Duration as measured by some clock. Atomic clocks give the most accurate measure of time. Less regular timekeepers are those based on the rotation of the earth and other bodies of the solar system.
amsglossary.allenpress.com/glossary/browse

The term ``time'' is used in the sense of ``simulation time'' and expresses an elapsed time since a reference date. These time values follow the convention for time coordinates supported by the COARDS [2] and CF [3] metadata conventions.
www.ccsm.ucar.edu/models/atm-cam/docs/time-manager/node3.html

services support synchronization of clocks in a distributed system. This is the same as the distributed time service in the Distributed Computing service category.
www.opengroup.org/architecture/togaf7-doc/arch/p3/trm/tx/tx_objec.htm

at which the seminar will be held
www.msci.memphis.edu/~franklin/learning_concepts.html

Time is not an elementary concept. We do not have a sense for time. Time is a concept based on elementary concepts. We observe distance, velocity and oscillatory movements but not time. In physics we say that time is distance divided by velocity. Do not confuse "time" with a sequence of events. Several sensations are stored in the order they occurred. That is primary information, it is something existing in our brains or the computer memory of an artificial intelligent system. ...
www.intelligent-systems.com.ar/intsyst/misuse.htm

Theosophy speaks of absolute undivided time or duration, and of manifested or divided time: the former as causal or noumenal, the latter as effectual or phenomenal, and therefore mayavi or illusional. "Time is only an illusion produced by the succession of our states of consciousness as we travel through eternal duration, and it does not exist where no consciousness exists in which the illusion can be produced; but 'lies asleep' " (SD 1:37). ...
www.theosociety.org/pasadena/etgloss/tho-tre.htm

The times used in Part I are in Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST). AEST is the mean solar time on the meridian of longitude of 150 degrees East. For Australian Central Standard Time (ACST) subtract 30 minutes from the times given. For other time zones make the appropriate adjustments. No adjustments have been made in this book for Daylight Saving, also known as 'Summer Time'. When daylight saving is in force, the time is one hour ahead of AEST. ...
www.quasarastronomy.com.au/article08.htm

In the History Lab learning center we examine time in its biological, geological, and mechanical/physical forms. Other aspects of time, such as change, chronology, perceptual vocabulary and dimensions can be applied to all three of these "faces" of time.
www.washingtonhistory.org/wshs/columbia/articles/0101-s1.htm

A request by a player to suspend play while he decides what he's going to do. If a player doesn't request time and there is a substantial amount of action behind him, the dealer may rule that the player has folded.
www.gambleversity.com/poker/poker-glossary-term.php

This variable is set to true when the player first types a command. If at no time during the processing of that command it is set to false, two things will happen. Firstly, the variable TOTAL_MOVES will be incremented by one. Secondly, the eachturn functions will be executed if they exist.
jacl.sourceforge.net/guide/definitions.html

on Target; the scheduled time that a flight is to attack a given target; especially important to attack on time when several flights are attacking other targets in the same general area.
skyraider.org/hook/glossary.htm

This is the number of months a job lasts each year multiplied by full time (1) or part-time (.5) status. All part-time jobs are coded as half time. We estimated part time, full time status of existing jobs based on information from the 1993 household survey and conversations with local people. The number of months is entered in the column labeled Seasons.
www.taiga.net/sustain/lib/models/scenarios/baseline/datadefinitions.htm

[A23/B37] Generally, Kant defines time as "a determinate form...in which alone the intuition of inner states is possible", adding "and everything which belongs to inner states is therefore represented in relations of time....space and time are such that they belong only to the form of intuition, and therefore to the subjective constitution of our mind, apart from which they could not be ascribed to anything whatsoever". ...
www.texttribe.com/text/kant_glossary.htm

Every person, society and environment is located in time and is changing through time. Our perceptions of time as past, present and future are also important for social enquiry and action. These perceptions draw on past events that influence our present. They need not, however, determine our future. We can perceive a range of possible futures that can assist our decision-making.
members.ozemail.com.au/~mghslib/subjects/society%20culture/Glossary.htm
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&defl=en&q=define:time&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title

that post killed my scroll wheel!

Haha use Page Down

it's someting that's only noticeable when it's running out. something to do with red-shift maybe.

/talking shite

OOOH! Is this going to be a classic temporal absolutist - relativist debate! Because I did Philosophy and that would be really cool. Though my Analytic contempt for metaphysics prevents me from contributing.

Edit: wow, that OOOH! makes me look gayer than Alan Carr and Dale Winton at a Christmas party with the entire Manchester United squad.

[]http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&defl=en&q=define:time&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title[/url]

that post killed my scroll wheel!

Nice, i'm presuming it was copy and paste? LOL well how abt this, there's no such thing as exact time is there?

It is, and why wouldn't there be such thing as exact time? There can be exact time as much as there can be an exact distance. Linear time is the fourth dimension.

Time what is time
I wish I knew how to tell you why
It hurts to know
Aren't we machines
Time what is time
Unlock the door
And see the truth
Then time is time again

100 points to anyone who can name the artist and album!

Yes, except when you take into account the effects of Special Relativity. You end up with time being purely subjective to the viewer due to time dilation (even for relatively slow moving objects), and the concept of exact time breaks down on a universal scale.

Spatial curvature also makes exact distance difficult to determine, due to the fact that the measured distance between two objects and the perceived (and by perceived I mean calculable based on what we know) distance between two objects is almost always different. If you were to look at a distant star and calculate its redshift and luminosity, and a few other factors, you could determine accurately it's distance from us. However, were you to then take an ASSLOAD of meter sticks and place them one after the other while flying there, you would find the number to be off by a considerable amount.

Dang, it sucks when people show up that know more about this than me. It makes me look foolish. Though, I was educated about this dimension-y stuff by the interweb so it's to be expected.

Is this that time dilation stuff you were talking about? I'm posting near the speed of light?

It is, and why wouldn't there be such thing as exact time? There can be exact time as much as there can be an exact distance. Linear time is the fourth dimension.

Yes, except when you take into account the effects of Special Relativity. You end up with time being purely subjective to the viewer due to time dilation (even for relatively slow moving objects), and the concept of exact time breaks down on a universal scale.

Spatial curvature also makes exact distance difficult to determine, due to the fact that the measured distance between two objects and the perceived (and by perceived I mean calculable based on what we know) distance between two objects is almost always different. If you were to look at a distant star and calculate its redshift and luminosity, and a few other factors, you could determine accurately it's distance from us. However, were you to then take an ASSLOAD of meter sticks and place them one after the other while flying there, you would find the number to be off by a considerable amount.

Dang, it sucks when people show up that know more about this than me. It makes me look foolish. Though, I was educated about this dimension-y stuff by the interweb so it's to be expected.

Is this that time dilation stuff you were talking about? I'm posting near the speed of light?

Heh, gotta love the time warp.

Time is an illusion; Lunchtime doubly so. :)

Time what is time
I wish I knew how to tell you why
It hurts to know
Aren't we machines
Time what is time
Unlock the door
And see the truth
Then time is time again

100 points to anyone who can name the artist and album!

Blind Guardian
Imaginations from the other side

Anyway, time is our perception of the natural law of action-consequence.

Meaning time is how we perceive transformation and change.

Time is loss of information. Until we can find something better, time is defined as increasing entropy.

The problem is that, on the fundamental level, every interaction works backwards and forwards. If you have a film of two particles colliding or whatnot, it is impossible to tell which way the film is rolling, forwards or backwards.

time is my enemy.

Guys (and gilrs) what do you define time as? Everyday you talk about it, you use phrases such as "there's no time left" but isn't it infinate? So post away :p

Time, child, is the ineffable.
Time humbles philosophers and physicists, leaves them waving their hands and saying "well, you know ..."
Time inspires poetry, the best as well as the worst of poetry.
Time simply is. Except that it also was, but isn't any more, and will be but isn't yet.

If you approach Time humbly, and treat it with reverence, no thing of the physical world can harm you. If it's a God you need, look no further than Time, the ineffable, the lyrical, the intuitively undeniable presence and ruler of all physical things, the God which no scientist dare gainsay.

At the moment, Time is wearing a silly hat and holding a teddy-bear with a frayed ear. She is mumbling something about bed, and I'm happy to take the hint.

Physicists would have us believe time is one of ten dimensions, or something similar. I don't really buy this argument though, and think time is a made-up human concept. Time is a measure of the amount of events that take place between other events. Think about it, if no events actually happened in 5 minutes of this time 'dimension', no bits of quartz moving in watches, no photons or electrons moving in space, no cells getting older... no time would have gone by at all, because everything everywhere would be exactly as it was 5 minutes ago, therefore it would be 5 minutes ago.

Interestingly, what do you think would happen if every sub-atomic particle, every bit of energy was somehow put in the same position as it was 10 years ago. Would we have the same memories as then, would the universe be 10 years younger? Would life in 10 years after that be exactly as it was before everything was moved back? I believe so, but the chances of that ever happening are infinitely improbable. Therefore we will never find out. Hey, it could have already happened!

PS: Please don't reply saying 'haha watches dont actually work like that.' I don't know much about the mechanics of a watch and like most people I don't really care.

pinS
The problem with saying that time is a human concept is that because of relativity we know it has physical reality. Time dilation is a geometric phenomenon.

...

Interestingly, what do you think would happen if every sub-atomic particle, every bit of energy was somehow put in the same position as it was 10 years ago. Would we have the same memories as then, would the universe be 10 years younger? Would life in 10 years after that be exactly as it was before everything was moved back? I believe so, but the chances of that ever happening are infinitely improbable. Therefore we will never find out. Hey, it could have already happened!
Ah, "somehow."
Allow that wishing made it so. It's a huge assumption, requires the omnipotence of allmighty God and access to exact information about the position and momentum of every particle in the universe. By Heisenburg, that information isn't just innaccessible, it doesn't actually exist, for even one particle.
Anyway, allowing that it was possible. You would have created a unity: two things which are identical in every way are both the same thing. It's tempting to go all trashy scifi here, and claim the universe would go into an endlessly recurring ten-year loop, but actually I think such an identity of two states would crush everything (the ten years) between them, and probably collapse the whole dimension.
It's not possible, but if you did it you'd break time. Time would cease to exist, whatever "ceasing" or "existing" might mean in the absence of a sense of time.

EDIT: If the dimension of time did not collapse, the ten-year tract of time between the two identical states would have to vanish. Entropy, faster-than-light communication, uncertainty -- the proposed action breaks a lot of rules, but trumping that is the fact that this act of god happens between two things that are the same thing. There is nothing and no time between one thing and itself, ergo the action of resetting the universe to a previous state cannot happen.

If even scientist that are researching this every day can conclude what time is, than certainly I can't.

Time is an illusion; Lunchtime doubly so. :)
Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you. ;)

Time is spacetime minus the space.

time is money?

Does anybody really have any idea what the hell it is?

I mean, we have rudimentary explanations now based in our current knowledge of physics, but despite the progress we've made phys still so incomplete that I don't think we have even the foggiest idea what time really is.

Time is spacetime minus the space.How do you know? At least in this universe, spatial dimensions appears to be a prerequisite for time. Seperating the two doesn't make any sense.
EDIT:Does anybody really have any idea what the hell it is?

I mean, we have rudimentary explanations now based in our current knowledge of physics, but despite the progress we've made phys still so incomplete that I don't think we have even the foggiest idea what time really is.Relativity explains what time is & how it works. Whether it's the right explanation or just a functional one, though, we may never know.

Time is of the essence.

Take quantum physics and you can learn all about time!

and maybe fry your brain at the same time... hell, its killing two birds with one stone!

Timely.

People often talk about time as a line.
Time is NOT a line.
Time is a circle.
That's why clocks are round.

[Or was it.. a continuim?"]
Here's a good question for you: Is a circle a continuim? If time were a circle, does that mean all things repeat? Perhaps time itself is a series of overlapping circle on an infinitely inward spiral, becoming less and less each instance of crossing itself, but never depleting entirely. =o

Time is what separates Work and Play. And then after that, Sleep.

time is a wavicle phenominon created by chronons.
chronomiters do not actualy measure chronons however, but only contemplate their own navels synchronisticly.

=^^=
.../\...

Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you. ;)

You don't read a lot of British books, do you?

What does "it" refer to in the sentence "What time is it?"?

an instance or single occasion for some event; "this time he succeeded"; "he called four times"; "he could do ten at a clip"
an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities); "he waited a long time"; "the time of year for planting"; "he was a great actor is his time"
a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something; "take time to smell the roses"; "I didn't have time to finish"; "it took more than half my time"
a suitable moment; "it is time to go"
the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
clock time: the time as given by a clock; "do you know what time it is?"; "the time is 10 o'clock"
clock: measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time; "he clocked the runners"
fourth dimension: the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event
assign a time for an activity or event; "The candidate carefully timed his appearance at the disaster scene"
a person's experience on a particular occasion; "he had a time holding back the tears"; "they had a good time together"
set the speed, duration, or execution of; "we time the process to manufacture our cars very precisely"
meter: rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
regulate or set the time of; "time the clock"
prison term: the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned; "he served a prison term of 15 months"; "his sentence was 5 to 10 years"; "he is doing time in the county jail"
adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time; "The good player times his swing so as to hit the ball squarely"
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Attempting to understand the nature of Time has always been a prime occupation for philosophers and scientists. Perhaps as a result of this considerable discussion, it is difficult to provide an uncontroversial and clear definition of the nature of time. This article begins by looking at some of the main philosophical and scientific issues relating to time.
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Time (officially capitalized TIME) is a weekly American newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report. A European edition (Time Europe, formerly known as Time Atlantic) is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and (since 2003) Latin America. An Asian edition (Time Asia) is based in Hong Kong. A Canadian edition (Time Canada) is based in Toronto. ...
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In computational complexity theory, the complexity class DTIME(f(n)) or TIME(f(n)) is the set of decision problems that can be solved by a deterministic Turing machine using time O(f(n)), and unlimited space.
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Time is one of the more famous songs from the Dark Side of the Moon album by Pink Floyd. It is noted for its long introductory passage of clocks chiming and alarms ringing, followed by an eerie two-minute passage dominated by Nick Mason's rototoms. ...
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Time is a concept album by Electric Light Orchestra. It was released in 1981 (see 1981 in music). In 2001 it was reissued with three additional tracks that were B-sides of singles from the original album.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(album)

Time or in Albanian Ora is a political party in Kosovo founded in the summer of 2004 by Veton Surroi, a famous Kosovar publicist. At the last legislative elections, 24 october 2004, the party won 6.2 % of the popular vote and 7 out of 120 seats in the Assembly of Kosovo and together with the Democratic Party of Kosovo forms one of the strongest oppositions in the region. Ora stands for a independent, free and democratic Kosovo.
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In baseball, when the ball is dead, no runners may advance beyond bases they are entitled to, and no runners may be put out. ...
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This article is about a Unix command. If you are looking for Unix's means of representing points in time, see Unix time.
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Time was formed in 1971 by Adolf Dado Topić (vocals) after leaving his previous band Korni Grupa. The original line-up consisted of, in addition to Topić, Tihomir Pop Asanović (organ), Vedran Božić (guitar), Mario Mavrin (bass), Ratko Divjak (drums) and Brane Lambert Živković (piano and flute). Time frequently changed line up and after three albums and many tours disbanded in late 1977 and Topić started his solo career. ...
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Time is the last studio album by the "classic" Klinik lineup of Dirk Ivens and Marc Verhaeghen. Due to mounting tensions and musical differences, Ivens left shortly after the recording to pursue a solo career as Dive.
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An expression used to stop the action on a hand. Equivalent to "Hold it."
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For practical purposes, the same as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The notation formerly used to identify time Greenwich MeanTime. The word "Zulu" is notation in the phonetic alphabet corresponding to the letter "Z" assigned to the time zone on the Greenwich Prime Meridian.
http://www.srh.weather.gov/srh/jetst...glossary_z.htm

meter, as in "3/4 time."
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Typically used to indicate a specific Time of Day (local time zone). When used in a Criteria box, "Morning" means between 12:01am and 11:59am, "Midday" means 10:00am to 4:00pm, "Afternoon" means 12:00pm to 5:00pm, and "Evening" means 5:01pm to 11:59pm
www.wcsra.org/terminology.php

Who knows what time really is? Whatever time is, in the Orrery Sky pages we refer to local time (ie of the location from which one wants to observe the sky). In the other pages, we use US Central Standard Time (which is Universal Time (or Greenwich Mean Time) +6 hours).
www.scienceu.com/observatory/facts/glossary.html

the Center for the Tsunami Inundation Mapping Effort, to assist the Pacific states in developing tsunami inundation maps; this Center is a part of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory.
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isikhathi (Z) Forefinger or forefinger and second finger tap top of wrist.
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Time the image was taken, PST
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Units are hours:minutes:seconds in UTC (Universal Time Coordinated).
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(Bowie): Song on ALADDIN SANE (1973) which was banned by the BBC due to its explicit reference to masturbation (...falls wanking to the floor...) It was performed on the 2 nd US Tour, the Japanese Tour and the 3 rd UK Tour. The offending phrase was edited out of the sole ABC TV screening of the ZIGGY STARDUST - THE MOTION PICTURE in October 1974 but was reintroduced for its 1983 release. ...
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The amount of time consumers spent reading or looking at their newspaper both on weekdays and Sundays. One of three elements comprising the Reader Behavior Score, along with frequency and completeness.
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Duration as measured by some clock. Atomic clocks give the most accurate measure of time. Less regular timekeepers are those based on the rotation of the earth and other bodies of the solar system.
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The term ``time'' is used in the sense of ``simulation time'' and expresses an elapsed time since a reference date. These time values follow the convention for time coordinates supported by the COARDS [2] and CF [3] metadata conventions.
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services support synchronization of clocks in a distributed system. This is the same as the distributed time service in the Distributed Computing service category.
http://www.opengroup.org/architectur...x/tx_objec.htm

at which the seminar will be held
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Time is not an elementary concept. We do not have a sense for time. Time is a concept based on elementary concepts. We observe distance, velocity and oscillatory movements but not time. In physics we say that time is distance divided by velocity. Do not confuse "time" with a sequence of events. Several sensations are stored in the order they occurred. That is primary information, it is something existing in our brains or the computer memory of an artificial intelligent system. ...
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Theosophy speaks of absolute undivided time or duration, and of manifested or divided time: the former as causal or noumenal, the latter as effectual or phenomenal, and therefore mayavi or illusional. "Time is only an illusion produced by the succession of our states of consciousness as we travel through eternal duration, and it does not exist where no consciousness exists in which the illusion can be produced; but 'lies asleep' " (SD 1:37). ...
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The times used in Part I are in Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST). AEST is the mean solar time on the meridian of longitude of 150 degrees East. For Australian Central Standard Time (ACST) subtract 30 minutes from the times given. For other time zones make the appropriate adjustments. No adjustments have been made in this book for Daylight Saving, also known as 'Summer Time'. When daylight saving is in force, the time is one hour ahead of AEST. ...
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In the History Lab learning center we examine time in its biological, geological, and mechanical/physical forms. Other aspects of time, such as change, chronology, perceptual vocabulary and dimensions can be applied to all three of these "faces" of time.
http://www.washingtonhistory.org/wsh...es/0101-s1.htm

A request by a player to suspend play while he decides what he's going to do. If a player doesn't request time and there is a substantial amount of action behind him, the dealer may rule that the player has folded.
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This variable is set to true when the player first types a command. If at no time during the processing of that command it is set to false, two things will happen. Firstly, the variable TOTAL_MOVES will be incremented by one. Secondly, the eachturn functions will be executed if they exist.
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on Target; the scheduled time that a flight is to attack a given target; especially important to attack on time when several flights are attacking other targets in the same general area.
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This is the number of months a job lasts each year multiplied by full time (1) or part-time (.5) status. All part-time jobs are coded as half time. We estimated part time, full time status of existing jobs based on information from the 1993 household survey and conversations with local people. The number of months is entered in the column labeled Seasons.
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[A23/B37] Generally, Kant defines time as "a determinate form...in which alone the intuition of inner states is possible", adding "and everything which belongs to inner states is therefore represented in relations of time....space and time are such that they belong only to the form of intuition, and therefore to the subjective constitution of our mind, apart from which they could not be ascribed to anything whatsoever". ...
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Every person, society and environment is located in time and is changing through time. Our perceptions of time as past, present and future are also important for social enquiry and action. These perceptions draw on past events that influence our present. They need not, however, determine our future. We can perceive a range of possible futures that can assist our decision-making.
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Ditto

What does "it" refer to in the sentence "What time is it?"?

It refers to the instance or point in which you make the statement puzzling at what hour/minute/second/moment/section of the day it is. If you ask "What time is it?" you do not want to know if the time is regular time or standard. You're obviously not saying "What time is.... the flight from San Andreas to Pittsburgh?"

The "it" refers to a moment stricken within time itself. What time is the point in which you asked what time it was?



B) Now THAT is deep.
*toots his own horn*

Does anybody really have any idea what the hell it is?

I mean, we have rudimentary explanations now based in our current knowledge of physics, but despite the progress we've made phys still so incomplete that I don't think we have even the foggiest idea what time really is.

There is a branch of physics concerned only with understanding and controlling time.
Researchers in this field are known as "stoners." :p

Take quantum physics and you can learn all about time!

and maybe fry your brain at the same time... hell, its killing two birds with one stone!

I'll take quantum physics as soon as I meet a QP dealer and scrape together the, what ... $150? I'm thinking it would be better than ekkies, so it probably costs more?

time is a wavicle phenominon created by chronons.
chronomiters do not actualy measure chronons however, but only contemplate their own navels synchronisticly.

=^^=
.../\...

Now your stone-age signature makes sense. A blindfolded fat man contemplating his herniated navel. Nice! :)
And you mispelled phenomicon.

What does "it" refer to in the sentence "What time is it?"?

Two question marks in one sentence. You will marry me!

"It" refers to the time. The sentence means "what time is the time in this instance?" The use of the specific "it" rules out answers like "time to get a watch" or "five minutes after you last asked."
There is only one correct answer to that question: "Now."

No, you can't actually marry me. I was just trying to get your attention. :)

It refers to the instance or point in which you make the statement puzzling at what hour/minute/second/moment/section of the day it is. If you ask "What time is it?" you do not want to know if the time is regular time or standard. You're obviously not saying "What time is.... the flight from San Andreas to Pittsburgh?"

The "it" refers to a moment stricken within time itself. What time is the point in which you asked what time it was?

B) Now THAT is deep.
*toots his own horn*

The thread is exhausted. The great minds here at work have brought time to it's knees. *vast patronizing irony*

And here's me, knowing full well the thread is history (rotting in the grave of page three,) recklessly baiting the physicists and cosmologists of the big wide internet to come kick my arse.

Think on this: a point in space has it's own time. A unique event at that point is unknown (unknowable) to all other points in space until some 'time' has passed. (Light cone.) Yet events at that point are influenced by events in an infinite past (maybe a finite number of years, but infinitely many unique moments) across an infinite space (yes, perhaps a finite space in hogsheads, but infinite in unique points.)
Sure, time is no more infinite than space. Simply multiplying by infinity a few times makes it no bigger, and again I provoke the theoreticians by saying that time SEEMS bigger to me than space. Time SEEMS bigger to me than all three of the spatial dimensions, or as I like to call them, the Three Stooges.

EDIT: Imagine a two-dimensional space, plus time. Sort of like television, right? and the future is still unknown, the past unchangable. Now imagine a three-dimensional space with no time (harder to imagine, but try) ... that's a static version of our own space-time, and it too is unknowable but only for lack of an observer. 2D + time > 3D. Perhaps I should have said "time is bigger than any one of the physical dimensions."
The Three Stooges: the three physical dimensions in Newtonian space are defined arbitrarily. To define one dimension, take any line. To define a second, you are constrained to lines at right angles to the first. To define the third, you must take a line (THE line) at right angles to the first and second dimensions. Even acknowledging that the three dimensions exist already and are not ordered, each of them is partly constrained by each of the others and uniquely defined by both. The Three Stooges.

Throughout history humans have shortened lots of words and phrases. Thus "there's no time left" is probably a shortened version of "there's no time left of the time that we have allocated ourselves out of the masses of time available to us" :)

Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you. ;)

YAY! :D

Guys (and gilrs) what do you define time as? Everyday you talk about it, you use phrases such as "there's no time left" but isn't it infinate? So post away :p

Time is an integral part of space-time as the fourth dimension. Our perception of it can occasionally be flawed, but this is due to our own minds and not time itself.

Time is on my side. Yes it is. :)

And here's me, knowing full well the thread is history (rotting in the grave of page three,) recklessly baiting the physicists and cosmologists of the big wide internet to come kick my arse.I'm neither, but I'll kick you if you want?

Sure, time is no more infinite than space. Simply multiplying by infinity a few times makes it no bigger, and again I provoke the theoreticians by saying that time SEEMS bigger to me than space. Time SEEMS bigger to me than all three of the spatial dimensions, or as I like to call them, the Three Stooges.Why does it seem bigger?

Guys (and gilrs) what do you define time as? Everyday you talk about it, you use phrases such as "there's no time left" but isn't it infinate? So post away :p

So.. where is Old Zealand anyhow?

So.. where is Old Zealand anyhow?
Haven't seen them post in months...
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Time is a Pink Floyd song.:)