What is your understanding of Time?

New Delhi, India
August 15, 2020 8:36pm CST
Time, as we know it to be on our watches and clocks is just one way of understanding Time. It may be called physical time or measurable time etc. We also use Time or the word Time with different meanings, for example, "We are living in bad times". Philosophers and thinkers have pondered a lot over Time and written about it as well. So, how do you understand Time?
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• United States
16 Aug 20
Time is an illusion to me as I work in the dark and sleep in the light. Time is lost to the either as days seem to fade away in the blink of an eye. Leaving only the question of, " where did the time go?". As my friends and relatives ask, can you spare time? Choices take time. Some seconds and others a lifetime.
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@sabtraversa (12437)
• Italy
18 Aug 20
I guess the physical time doesn't start or end, just like the clock, it's a circle, while the other type of time is what we call a period, an era, and it's usually seen as a straight line with events that start or end it. We don't really perceive time, we perceive change, so we rely on the events/changes that occur to define time, sometimes it goes in circles (sunrise and sunset repeat themselves), sometimes it's linear (someone's life).
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• New Delhi, India
18 Aug 20
How about considering that Time is a construct of humanity and different cultures have constructed their conceptions of differently over the course of history? For example, Time for Renaissance Italy was different as compared to Time as it was for Mughal India.
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@sabtraversa (12437)
• Italy
18 Aug 20
@kunalanuk I don't know about that but it would be interesting to read how each culture interpreted time, but I would guess it still has to do with change, with each culture choosing different parameters depending on what they had, needed, believed in and so forth.
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• Agra, India
16 Aug 20
Time is one thing that always moves at its own pace
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@Janet357 (75678)
16 Aug 20
According to.Einstein, it does not exist. According to me, time is the reason why we buy a watch or wall clock.
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@lazydaizee (6704)
• United Kingdom
17 Aug 20
All I know about time is that it goes too fast these days.
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• Indonesia
16 Aug 20
We will look from the point of view of the ancient people or the historical side. The ancient people knew the clock as it is today. there is no time that is really precise as a reference for calculating even milliseconds. They handle tofu the name of an hour, one minute, or one second. Moreover, knowing that one second is equal to one atomic vibration. They sometimes don't care about things like that. They only understand the meaning of time periodically. timing like modern people do, never crossed their heads. We have based our current society around the concept of how to measure time because we divide it into "tasks". So, at a certain "hour," we do something, and then something else.
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@sophie09 (34278)
• Indonesia
16 Aug 20
Time flies by too fast these days
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@jayanth_77 (7180)
• India
16 Aug 20
Times can be good and bad. Its how we face them makes the difference.
• India
16 Aug 20
Something that flies so quickly when we are happy and refuses to even walk when we are sad.
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