What is time? I truly do not understand what time is. Does anyone know?

Time is a function of space and position. It is a numerical representation of the space between two objects, one of which is the reference point. It is also a function of what is called "the observer" and "the observed."

The observer is the reference point. The observed is the second position. Thus, when a second elapses in time, it has gone from number 1 to number 2. It moves from position 1 to position 2 and it can only happen if those two points exist and the movement is observed by an observer. If there is no observer, there is no time because there is nothing to validate the existence of either space or position. In order for something to occur, it must be witnessed is what I am saying.

Time, most of all, represents change. Change occurs when time elapses. A change from 1 to 2 in our example.

Change is relative to the observer - and what this means is, time is based on our perception. Sometimes, you experience or observe the same interval of time as being longer then other such equal intervals. In other words, you feel like an hour passes very very slowly one day and then the next day, the same hour passes so quickly it went by like a blink of an eye. Thus, time is a personal experience and it can change, depending on how we experience it and how we observe it changing.

Thus, we can conclude then that:

Time itself is a function of space and position and requires an observer and the observed.

Time results in change

Change is relative to the observer

How time occurs is subjective and dependent upon our experience of it

Equal intervals of time can be experienced differently, depending upon how we observe it and how we feel about it. Thus, time itself is maleable because our feelings, can change how we perceive experiencing it.

When there is no observer, there is no observed and that means time cannot exist unless it is first observed and experienced.

These principles lead to a much larger view of the universe in general. We know, for example, scientifically, that the universe is about 13.5 to 14 billion years old. At least, that is what we believe based on current scientific understanding - and that number has been slowly reduced over the years. At one time, maybe 30 years ago, astronomers and cosmologists figured the age was 18 - 20 billion. So the estimates are revised and refined. Now the fact is, that we did not exist 13.5 billion years ago. So the question really is: How did 13.5 billion years pass by, how did it occur, if there was no one to OBSERVE it happening?

Ahhh, we have made a faulty assumption! We said "No One" was there to observe it happening. This is the misnomer in our thinking - "if humans were not there, then it didn't happen." Right? If we were not there to observe it, it never happened. But - BUT! What if there has always been something there that has always been an observer? If it is not a human being who has been, am I referring to aliens? Not really. I am referring, of course, to God. God is the only eternal being who could have been there from the beginning to witness the first second of existence and all that has taken place since then, througout the universe. And if you don't like the term "God," then let us say that there has to be some kind of intelligent force or being that has been the observer all along.

From a quantum physics standpoint, something cannot exist UNLESS it is FIRST OBSERVED. 13.5 billion years could not have happened if it was not observed and experienced by some intelligent force or being over that entire time. Thus, I argue, that God exists or an Intelligent Force, because there must be an observer in order for time to have ticked away all these eons since the functional creation of the universe.

I like this deep thinking. Time is a period between two events. In my point of view, time is all subjective because what can seem long to someone can feel extreemly short for another. Einstein took an example of a boy courting a girl, how it seems like an eternity. As for me, deeply thinking, there is no such thing as time only now, now is the only thing tangible and concrete that means 'now' is the only time there is.

Despite developments in experimental science, Aristotle's consideration of time in the Physics is still a helpful consideration. You'll find it in the last few chapters of Book 4 of the Physics. He calls time "the number of motion according to the before and the after."

By saying it is "of motion", he says that it is something that does not exist without motion, yet it is still not the same thing as motion. A sign of this is that one thing can move more or less in the same time.

That it is called "the number" of motion is somewhat difficult, but Aristotle wants to point to the numerability of time. Number also has the notion of measuring, and time seems to measure motion.

The "before and after" in the definition is not the before and after of time (that would put the defined in the definition), but rather of motion. Natural motions have a natural before/after (think of gravity: it goes from up to down), and then time is what measures this and is consequent to it.

Newton contradicts this understanding of time with his "absolute time" which is always going, regardless of motion. Einstein seems to disprove Newton's view and show that time is more closely related to motion, as Aristotle thought.

Time is an illusion thought up by humans. Before humanity, there was no 4:32 or 17:54! There were only Sun at that position, Sun at this position.

Time is a way of how we keep track of when there will be light and darkness.

All the really long explanations are probably about time as in the events which have taken place, as in past and future

It's the human way of perceiving movement....of space. When we look out into space, we are seeing back in time as well. But on a more local level, we dissect it into measurable cycles of the moon and sun....but it's still basically movement. But you can't talk about time without referring to space. Perhaps it's the movement that gives us a sense of duration with our weak human animal skills. Light seems to be the only thing free of time since it can be many places at once. Still....time, to me; a mere human....is just entropy enacting its revenge on the universe....keeping it balanced. :]

Time is a illusion caused by the position of the sun and gravity. It is completely a construct of the human mind and exists only to keep us sane. It has been scientifically proven that it doesn't exist.

Time represents a way of documenting everything. The way I see it, its just been made so that we have reference points. People can say, 'that happened in 1945' or 'I was born in 1992' and everyone knows what it means. We invented 'time'.

Its also something that stupid *** fools do in prison ;D

'Time' exists in 'thought' only!

That is why it is fcuking up the scientists!

'Gravity' also!!!

They cannot get around that one either!

They are a bit slow... but are catching up, slowly!

Hey, they 'just' discovered Consciousness!

"Consciousness is the ground of all being!" - Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics

Essentially, that is all 'time' is, a 'thought'/imagination!

As I explained in my response to your 'Cogito' question.

All perception is Now!

peace

The distance between two arbitrary points.

If you can understand the arbitrary you may understand time.