What is time?
This question is fundamental to the quest of this bulletin board. If we don't know what time is, how can we traverse it?
The question has been raised time and time again in any number of arenas, with no ultimate resolution. Can we do better?
Please, no spiritual or metaphysical interpretations - however interesting they are, they won't help us on a basic, physical level. Math is welcome - I'd be interested to see what physics has come up with to date.
So, on with the show.
We know the rate of time experienced by an observer depends on their velocity. But is this time an entity by itself, or the sum of the effects of other forces, etc.? People say time is a 'dimension' of its own. What are the differences between a temporal and a spatial dimension? What would the experience of time be like if there were more than one temporal dimension?
A lot of questions, focused around a single topic. I look forward to the discussion.
This question is fundamental to the quest of this bulletin board. If we don't know what time is, how can we traverse it?
The question has been raised time and time again in any number of arenas, with no ultimate resolution. Can we do better?
Please, no spiritual or metaphysical interpretations - however interesting they are, they won't help us on a basic, physical level. Math is welcome - I'd be interested to see what physics has come up with to date.
So, on with the show.
We know the rate of time experienced by an observer depends on their velocity. But is this time an entity by itself, or the sum of the effects of other forces, etc.? People say time is a 'dimension' of its own. What are the differences between a temporal and a spatial dimension? What would the experience of time be like if there were more than one temporal dimension?
A lot of questions, focused around a single topic. I look forward to the discussion.