• Question: Can you define time?

    Asked by mondon to Hermine, Katy, Laura, Nathalie, Paula on 16 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
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      Nathalie Pettorelli answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      Hi there,

      What an intersting question – I had to have a look at wikipedia to see what definitions were proposed, and my answer is: no, I can not properly define it. Which makes me belong to the category of people seeing time as “part of a fundamental intellectual structure (together with space and number) within which humans sequence and compare events” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time). Funnily, I’m also a big fan of Kant 🙂

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      Hermine Schnetler answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      Hi Mondon

      It’s a unit of measurement which accrues value by counting events of a repetitious nature (such as the cycles of a swinging of a pendulum)

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      Paula Salgado answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      Mondon, that’s a very, very hard question… and you just made me realise I don;t think I can… So to help both of us have a better idea, here’s the Wikipedia link:

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time

      Hope that helps! 😉 It helped me understand it better!

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      Katy Mee answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      It’s hammer time….

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      Laura Dixon answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      Time’s actually really hard to define as its relative to the units you’re measuring in. I know physicists have a complicated definition of time involving a ‘nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession’ 😛 I’d try to simplify that into time is the passing of events, which is still quite ambiguous! lol

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