Is time a mirage?

Philippines
December 22, 2006 6:53pm CST
I've been thinking lately, is time really a mirage and just an illusion? 1 Earth day equals 24hours, and 1 Earth year equals 365 days. 1 revolution/orbit around the Earth by the moon equals 1 month. 1 revolution/orbit around the Sun by Earth equals 1 year. We know that the Earth is slowing down and we need to adjust the clock to compensate for that. So, 1 Earth day will slow down as time passes by making 1 Earth year longer than the past. Just correct me if I am wrong here. So, my question here is, if we adjust the time according to the speed revolution of the Earth and the speed of the Earth orbiting the Sun, then there is a time difference here, right? So, the way we measure time is in variable not constant but it depends on many factors. Time is relative to an object in motion, therefore there is a time variable here. So, now then, what if in the past, the Earth was spinning faster and the orbit of the Earth around the Sun was much faster in the past. So, it then follows that time before was much faster than today. Our 24hours today relative to the time in the past, might only measure around 8hours. Our 1 year today relative to the the time in the past, might only measure 200 days. Relative to the time in the past, a person today age 24 years old, might measure 50years old according to "time frame" units in the past. Biologically, relative to our time, he is 24 years old. The dilemma starts here: How old is the Earth really? We say it is 6 billion years old. But, you need to ask, relative to what year and to what time? Relative to this time today, because the Earth is slower than the past, we will say "6 billion years of age". For me, time is not constant but a variable. My age today doesn't measure my age in the past. Whats your take here?
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@vikceo (1301)
• India
23 Dec 06
you looks like talking as another einsteen.. really interesting thing but you know in my elementry class i read that really there is no absolute concept. everything has to be realive to something else to be significant. and same is the stroy with time. it is generally defined as a quantity speed of light takes to cover a 1 meter of distance in space. here it is constant term and could be used to measure things relative to it.
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• Philippines
23 Dec 06
Light may be a constant in a vacuum, but it varies through different mediums. Light can slow down due to strong gravity. Even through the vacuum of space, light travels variably because space vacuum is not truly empty after all. I believe there are some instances that light is able to travel faster where there are totally no resistances to the photons. Where PV=1 (Polarized Vacuum), where 1 is the speed of light in our solar system at 300 000 000 m/s, at PV=0.5, light would have traveled twice its speed. I believe there are galaxies and solar systems in which the vacuum is polarized at 0.5, making that galaxy appear to be red shifting. Lesser than 0.5, the galaxy would be invisible. At PV=1.5, the galaxy might appear to be blue shifting.