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Fuck off and search it. This shit is posted every fucking day and quite frankly I'm tired of this bullshit.

You have a picture of Albert Einstein, and you're asking if time is a human invention.

Please research before you ask a question.

Time is a scalar quantity that quantifies the relationship between velocity and distance.

Time is our perception of the continuity of the now-snapshots we get from our senses that make up our conciousness, the ability for them to change and former states to be remembered and have impacts on states that are to come, and our ability to predict that future states may continue under certain conditions.

If you imagine existence as trillions of infinitesimal sized points, Time is the line that connects all of these points together to form a continuous path. Depending on your position on polycosmic thought, it may or may not have branches that lead to alternate lines at key points, be able to partially circle back in on itself, or exist in many separate and non-connected lines.

We also know that time is connected to space, and both can be bent or distorted without violating the laws of reality.

TLDR; pic related.

Time is the dimension that, among other characteristics, separates two sets of the same coordinates.

>>4382731
>We also know that time is connected to space, and both can be bent or distorted without violating the laws of reality.

Thats the hard part. How can you bend something that is supposed to be perception? Does time have physical value?

>>4382868
The more something is massive, the slower time is

Time is the constraint in which physical phenomena is allowed to occur. It doesn't matter what our perception of it is.

It's not constant.

>>4382868

time is exactly as physical and real as distance is, no more no less

>>4382711
Time isn't a scalar. Not in relativity at least.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Km7-6-J81k

Prof Feynman
Character of Physical Law - Part 5 - The Distinction Between Past and Future

>>4382979

Well if it always goes the same direction, then it acts like a scalar

>>4382997
No, it's doesn't. Scalar has specific meaning: it's something that retains its value under coordinate transformation. Time does not have this property.

>>4383002

then what is it? Can it be called a vector if it only has 2 possible directions?

Physical forces affect matter and cause them to move through space. Time is something human brains conceptualize to make sense of this phenomenon.

Question!

Does perception of time have relevance to the size of the being? Like a fly "perceives" time slower than say, we do? Or say if there was something the size of a mountain, it would "perceive" time slower than we do?

Also, how was time "created", though? Is there any quantum mechanics bullshit answer yet?

>>4383019
It's one of four components of a vector.

>>4383098
"Perception" of time (whatever that means) has no physical meaning. Time is what's measured on clocks.

>>4383115
There HAS to be some type of measurement of "was" and "will be."

If I move an object from point A to point B there has to be something inbetween that defines the act of moving the object.

>>4383122
I'm not sure what you're trying to say...

>>4382704
Wrong website.
https://archive.installgentoo.net/sci/thread/S4382694#p4382704

>>4382847
I'm okay with this reply.