My View On Time

[cosmicluck]

Today, we use time in a majority of uses. From cooking food to counting down to the new year. But in my eyes, we are viewing time incorrectly and impractically.

 

For example:

 

If you are on the east coast of the US at noon, and on the other side of the earth its dark with night, according to humans it is a different "time".

 

The very meaning of time is being thrown out in this example. We don't use time in a scientific sense, we use it in a hypothetical sense.

 

Time is woven into the fabric of space, it is a constant, therefore if you are on one side of the universe, the other side is the same time. Understand so far? So the way we use time today is completely different than what it really means. The only reason we use different time is to tell whether it is day or night.

[Anubis-UK]

go back a couple of thousand years and the civilizations all followed the solstice and their calendars where all timed by it (Chankillo in Peru for example)

 

Nearly all ancient monuments where built using the Solstice as their guide, even the great pyramid on the solstice shows up with a shadow on its sides revealing that it actually has 8 sides not 4 (not a lot of people seem to know this, but it only happens briefly on the solstice)

 

Timing on earth is just another method of controlling us to follow set protocols and making it easier to do so in my opinion ie. get up, go to work, finish work, over and over

 

Daylight saving???? HUH! SAVE DAYLIGHT? Daylight is daylight, you get what you are given by the Sun!

 

We dont actually use the Sun as our clock anymore because we have created our own "Standard Time" we would probably be far more relaxed and our lives would have a much better flow to them if we just followed Solar time!

[elfmotat]

Time is woven into the fabric of space, it is a constant, therefore if you are on one side of the universe, the other side is the same time.

 

This is completely untrue. See Special Relativity.

[hypervalent_iodine]

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[too-open-minded]

Time is perception.

[elfmotat]

Time is perception.

 

What is this nonsense supposed to mean?

[too-open-minded]

Time is what you perceive it to be. Its relative to your own perception.

 

Special relativity, like you said to look at. Their is no absolute defined state of rest, we had to find a constant frame of reference with that being the speed of light and when things move faster than the speed of light it has an effect on time. I see where you were going with that, telling the OP to look at special relativity and that time is not constant.

 

Although I think your misunderstanding the OP, Or maybe I am. Although from what I understand he is saying time is not the incremental system we know relatively to us, with years and days etc. Time is something much more than we can perceive.

 

I don't fully understand special relativity, although if the OP is right and what I do understand is right. Time is a variable that needs to be better understood.

[elfmotat]

Special relativity has absolutely nothing to do with "perception." It makes concrete quantitative predictions about how the universe works.

[too-open-minded]

I don't know the in depth structure of SR but am I atleast right about the jist of SR being that the speed of light is a constant we can use to determine things about the universe?

[Mike Smith Cosmos]

I don't know the in depth structure of SR but am I atleast right about the jist of SR being that the speed of light is a constant we can use to determine things about the universe?

Many of the older Scientists like Sir Issac Newton felt there was some universal clock ticking somewhere Which ticked out the time that everything would adhere to.

 

Along came Albert Einstein and said No . Time is relative , namely relates to itself , or to something or somewhere else. His Theory of Relativity explains his belief on this related time , which is what is used by many scientists when particles are moving at very high speeds with relation to one another. If you are not moving very fast with relation to your surroundings this does not matter.

 

What does matter is : Is there a universal clock ? or is Time totally relative. ? Or are there perceptive issues , to do with time ? These questions do present interesting Answers !

[swansont]

Today, we use time in a majority of uses. From cooking food to counting down to the new year. But in my eyes, we are viewing time incorrectly and impractically.

 

For example:

 

If you are on the east coast of the US at noon, and on the other side of the earth its dark with night, according to humans it is a different "time".

 

Not according to people who know what they're talking about. The people who are charged with official timekeeping use universal coordinated time (UTC), or, if their governments haven't officially gotten with the program, they use Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)