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Anonymous Wed Aug 3 03:35:31 2011 No.3500180 [Reply] [Original]

What is time?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 3 03:40:31 2011 No.3500194 Last time I checked It's an invention of man so he can keep his shit in check

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 3 03:58:31 2011 No.3500242 An illusion brought on by memory of movement.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 3 04:04:31 2011 No.3500254 10:04 am

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 3 04:06:31 2011 No.3500260 >>3500194 How is time any more invented than distance? Both have arbitrary units invented by humans, but can ultimately be pinned to a natural standard.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 3 04:14:31 2011 No.3500275 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0fV5KF80_Q

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 3 04:16:31 2011 No.3500279 >>3500242 true dat anything after aristotle through ricoeur and my own instincts say so

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 3 04:16:31 2011 No.3500280 File: 36 KB, 620x620, prof-brian-cox_1655646i.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 3 04:28:31 2011 No.3500301 the way we track and enumerate change

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 3 04:49:31 2011 No.3500352 >>3500301 yes, precisely, in a pure vacuum of space with no particles what so ever, there is no time time is only a construct of the observer and the observed. and as we know time is relative

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 3 04:51:31 2011 No.3500356 Time = Distance / Rate

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 3 04:53:31 2011 No.3500361 >>3500180 baby don't hurt me

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 3 05:07:31 2011 No.3500386 >>3500180 Universal quantification of surrounding(For us Humans) perceptible alteration of affairs, events and entities.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 3 05:24:31 2011 No.3500406 anyone with a basic understanding of relativity can tell you this.>>3500352 >>3500301