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Is distance actually just another measure of Time?
I have been thinking about the concept of Distance and it seems like it would be possible to simply call Distance another way of measuring Time.
What do you guys think?
6 Answers
- Roger KLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
Not really.
Distance is a physical separation of two points. You can travel that distance if you want, or not travel it if you don't want to. You can use many different methods of conveyance, and many different paths to move from one point to the other,
There is nothing explicitly physical about time. There is not even a really good way to define what time <<is>>. You cannot choose to not allow time to pass. It will always march forward like it or not. There are not multiple paths for it to take.
You can make choices that influence what happens later on, but things will occur one way or another.
- 7 years ago
Time is actually the 4th dimension.
As in 4-D.
You seem smart so i won't explain to you the fundamentals, but its like the fourth parameter while referring to something. For example- **3cm to the right of X-axis** this is just 1-D with only one parameter. **latitude 33degrees longitude 44degrees** here we have 2 parameters thus 2-D
Similarly to refer to an object in free space rather than in a straight line or a plane we will require yet another variable, i.e., 3-D.
Now the 4th dimension is nothing but pointing out where it is in "time".
Thought for your day. It's really fun to ponder about.
As you can now see they are the same thing but yet they're worlds apart
Source(s): Books, and the Discovery Channel. - Steve BLv 77 years ago
No, 100% wrong = distance is not even a vector quantity ... so it's not even like saying 'width is another way of measuring height, which is another way of measuring depth'
As you approach the speed of light, both your time vector and and 'depth' vector (size measured in the direction you are moving) measured RELATIVE to a stationary observer change (time slows, depth reduces) .. however your height and width DO NOT change ..
- L. E. GantLv 78 years ago
Yes.
If you have a standard "speed".
So, if someone walks at 4 miles per hour, one mile is equivalent to 15 minutes.
It just gets a bit clumsy, if people use a different base line from you -- then you have to convert the baselines as well as the distance or time.
- ?Lv 78 years ago
It is in the sense that "time as a certain speed". That's in quotes because many have referred to the speed of light as the speed of time. If some event occurs one light year away, it will not have occurred for you until another year passes. Until then that event might as well not exist because there is no way of telling what happened.