Different views on Time.

[Super Nade]

Very interesting question, but from a physicist's POV, time is just a parameter (both, in Quantum Theory and Classical Physics). At least that is how I view it.

 

[SilthDraeth]

Originally posted by: Super Nade
Very interesting question, but from a physicist's POV, time is just a parameter (both, in Quantum Theory and Classical Physics). At least that is how I view it.

True.

Time is simply a parameter to measure a constant cyclic interval and compare it in relative relationship to another interval, cyclic or non cyclical, constant or erratic. Use the constant as the point of reference to make all measurements against.

Time is normally measured against a constant. If you pass a measured constant current through an object, and it cause the object to oscillate, the oscillation will create a pattern. Increasing the current may increase the oscillation, thus changing the pattern.
You want to create a non changing oscillation, one that remains a constant. Then you simply count how many oscillations happen as you draw a circle, or walk around the block.

The oscillations are then your unit of time, since they remain a constant, while the activities you do are the variable.

That is all time is.

 

[Super Nade]

I've asked my professors before, i.e why time is just a parameter and not an operator in quatum mechanics, but I never did get a satisfactory answer.

 

[mjrtoo]

Of course time exists, how else would we set our alarm clocks, or schedule our Tivo boxes. Or how would we measure how old the universe is if subdivisions of a moment didn't exist? I think the only way that time does not exist is if our entire reality is an illusion.