Use of time variable in formulae

[boywonder]

i hope you dont mind an average joe joining in. i have some thought experiments and no one to tell them to .ive seen some intresting things here already. Anyway could somone explain to me why scientist keep using time in formulas to calculate theorys? i mean time is just distance right? i mean what passed objects traveled electron moved from here to there but what passed???? help

[Klaynos]

Time and distance are related, you can consider them to be both directions if you like, but by your reasoning we would only have one spacial direction as well, but we have 3 (often x,y,z). Time is a 'movement' in a different direction.

 

Explain to me, how I could analyse some energy decay of an ensemble which does not move, but only decays with time?