What is time, does it flow, and if so what defines its direction?

Answer by Timothy for What is time, does it flow, and if so what defines its...

March 8, 2021, 10:54 am

I don't know the answer to the first 2 questions but I have an answer to the third one. Let's say you have a 2 dimensional hyperbolic plane tiled with heptagons and one of those heptagons you call the...

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Answer by mmesser314 for What is time, does it flow, and if so what defines...

June 4, 2020, 4:12 pm

I will adopt a different viewpoint than other answers. The flow of time can be used in relativity.Some answers above and this answer to Does it actually take infinite (observer) time for someone to...

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Answer by Clock for What is time, does it flow, and if so what defines its...

March 3, 2020, 2:01 pm

I got bumped off my question (it being perceived as a duplicate of this one) so I'll leave an answer here as a parting shot. John Rennie mentions that time flows in a direction at the rate of one...

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Answer by zane scheepers for What is time, does it flow, and if so what...

March 29, 2019, 12:36 pm

What is time? Ask ten different people and you'll get ten different answers. This is how I understand it. The word time is a term describing temporal motion. Time is what we do. Time doesn't flow, we...

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Answer by Deschele Schilder for What is time, does it flow, and if so what...

July 20, 2022, 12:49 am

Alright, let me too give it a try:What do physicists mean by time?Let me start with a quote by Hermann Weyl:The world simply is, it does not happen. Only to the gaze of my consciousness, crawling up...

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Answer by L.Gyula for What is time, does it flow, and if so what defines its...

January 5, 2019, 2:51 am

If you want a short answer, then:Physicists mean a coordinate axis mostly, when they talk about time . Also in relativity theory we are measuring time in meters!How does time flow?I would say rather:...

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Answer by Árpád Szendrei for What is time, does it flow, and if so what...

January 5, 2019, 2:41 am

Of course John Rennie's answer is right, as well as John Duffield's answer. Both answers are correct mostly, and technical. But let me try to explain it in a more simpler way. So please let me try to...

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Answer by John Duffield for What is time, does it flow, and if so what...

May 30, 2018, 12:45 am

What is time?As Einstein said, time is what clocks measure. And if you take a look at what a clock actually does, if you open up a clock and take a cold scientific look at the empirical evidence, you...

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Answer by John Rennie for What is time, does it flow, and if so what defines...

July 31, 2020, 7:32 am

What do physicists mean by time?We’ll start with the easy question what do physicists mean by time.Note that it’s easy to get mixed up between the concepts of time and the flow of time. When...

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