What is time?

[Ossosuna]

Tick tick tock goes the clock, as both it and yourself propel ever forward along the arrow of time. A second passes. You are still there. Nothing has changed. You have just become another second older.

One day the clock will tick, and your heart will stop beating forever. No-one can escape the fate of death. Death and time are inextricably linked.

But what are they?

That is the ultimate question that i wish to pose in this new thread.

 

[Cycleguy007]

The answer to the ultimate question?

The answer to the ultimate question?

42

 

[Jackielee]

Someone needs to see a shrink very soon

 

[papasmerf]

time is a calibrated unit in which the earth travels around the sun

An interesting side note is there are both 60 minutes in an hour and a degree

 

[Maurice Boscorelli]

You need to ask this question to one of our more intellectually gifted members.

With say an IQ of 140 or more.

 

[Cycleguy007]

You need to ask this question to one of our more intellectually gifted members.

With say an IQ of 140 or more.

Hmmm.... Does anyone know a member that might qualify? :???:

Anyone? :???:

Bueller? uch:

(Dam... never a Mensa member around when you need one... **sigh**)

 

[papasmerf]

You need to ask this question to one of our more intellectually gifted members.

With say an IQ of 140 or more.

I once had my IQ tested

got my results and attended my first MENSA meeting and my last.

Turns out at 14 most the members did not drink

IQs tend to be over rated when it comes to common sense

 

[tboy]

That's the problem with IQ tests: if one isn't educated that doesn't mean they are, or are not, intelligent........

I took one test that had me count how many green objects were in one photo, then answer on the next page......I'm blue green colour blind so I didn't see ANY green objects.....how is THAT a measure of intelligence? (it was supposed to test your short term memory).

Time is a theoretical method of breaking up our day into segments.

I still don't quite get (even though it has been explained to me) why travelling at FTL will cause you to experince time differently.

 

[Auggie]

If we were blind, would we have a concept of time?

We divided the day because we could see the sun appear to move across the sky and the month because we saw the moon in different phases.
We may have remembered and recorded how some cycles repeat themselves but it would have taken longer to recognize them.

Maybe we wouldn't have been obsessed by time and something else would have evolved to guide us?

 

[Art Mann]

42

Better check your math, CG.


The answer is obviously
69

 

[Cycleguy007]

WELL OF COURSE...

WELL OF COURSE...

Better check your math, CG.


The answer is obviously
69

69 is the best!

**Note to self- Art Mann is NOT a Douglas Adams fan**...

 

[Auggie]

I remember Elvis was 42 when he died, back then he seemed so old and had been irrelevant for years to me.
Today I wish I could be 42 again, it would feel so young.

 

[tboy]

Hey Prim0, you're going to piss off a lot of religious fanatics if you keep talking like that.....I think what people are referring to as the soul is reinforced by the fact that supposedly we lose 21 grams at the moment of death. So, your soul weighs 21 grams lol.....

You're actually referring to "brain death" not death itself. Death in layman's terms is when your heart stops beating but that is only the beginning of death. Brain death actually begins to occur approximately 4 minutes after the heart stops beating.

These days with modern resuscitation techniques, millions of people every day are brought back from death.

When you read up on near death experiences that "bright light" that so many talk about seeing is those neurons starting to misfire and the moving into the light is the brain or parts of the brain that make us...us....are actually starting to fade. Kind of like the term "falling asleep". We don't actually fall......

But yeah, we all end up as worm food and there is no heaven, hell, paradise, reincarnation etc. Maybe if more people realized this there'd be a lot less problems in the world......

 

[Cycleguy007]

Hey Prim0, you're going to piss off a lot of religious fanatics if you keep talking like that.....I think what people are referring to as the soul is reinforced by the fact that supposedly we lose 21 grams at the moment of death. So, your soul weighs 21 grams lol.....

You're actually referring to "brain death" not death itself. Death in layman's terms is when your heart stops beating but that is only the beginning of death. Brain death actually begins to occur approximately 4 minutes after the heart stops beating.

These days with modern resuscitation techniques, millions of people every day are brought back from death.

When you read up on near death experiences that "bright light" that so many talk about seeing is those neurons starting to misfire and the moving into the light is the brain or parts of the brain that make us...us....are actually starting to fade. Kind of like the term "falling asleep". We don't actually fall......

But yeah, we all end up as worm food and there is no heaven, hell, paradise, reincarnation etc. Maybe if more people realized this there'd be a lot less problems in the world......

Hey tboy... you're going to piss off a lot of religious fanatics if you keep talking like that...

:na:

 

[tboy]

just religious fanatics? My goal is to piss off everyone eventually lol

 

[Cycleguy007]

just religious fanatics? My goal is to piss off everyone eventually lol

 

[papasmerf]

WRONG!!!! If you were right, then no earth would equal no time...but I'm sure it would still pass even if our entire galaxy never existed.

Who would be around to care?