Is time linked to matter only?

Question

If it is definable, and based upon experience [ie subjective or objecive and has 'yardstick' measurability - is time therefore only linked to matter?

what about thought/memory/idea and emotion?

Answer 1

Time is just a measurement. Man has no affect on time although time can appear different to humans based on thought and emotions etc.

Answer 2

Its what you put into your time that matters

Answer 3

don't worry about time.

it's just the thing that stops everything happening at once ;)

Answer 4

Time was just a measurement invented by humans to help carry out their daily activities in a regular manner. You define time only in terms of doing some activity. If we try to associate time with ANYTHING else we end up only getting confused as there are more questions than there are answers to it.

Answer 5

Actually time is linked to space.  Einstein defined it as: Space/time.

Answer 6

Time is linked directly with matter - thats proven with experiments. The closer to the speed of light an object travels at the slower time passes by for it. Fly a clock around the world and it will return marginally slower to a stationary identical clock.

With this direct link between time and matter and all thought/memory and emotions stemming originally from matter in the first place I would say time is linked to everything :)

Answer 7

Yes.

Time only exists within the 3-dimensional Matter-reality of the physical universe.

Thought is the process by which the Mind tries to make sense our personal & subjective reality.

Memory is a component of Thought, but also has a physical grounding & is housed in each cell of our physical body.

Idea is Imagination & therefore a componant of Thought.

Emotions are the Minds way of interpreting the body's feelings reactions to situations.

Mind, or Consciousness, has been proven to be an energy which pervades the time-space continuum, & is in itself timeless.

Mind is not to be confused with Brain (as it all to often is): the Brain is the body's control mechanism & accesses Mind & Memory, but does not contain them.

I hope this enlightens rather than boggles your mind!

LOL ;-)

Oh, & everything is Subjective, there is ultimately no such thing as true Objectivity because as soon as something enters our awareness it becomes part of our Subjective reality.

Answer 8

time , space, matter, energy, they are all the same.A unified field theory as yet unwritten will provide the mathematics

Answer 9

Good question. The definition I accept for 'time' is it is that which seperates a series of events. For events to come to the attention they would usually have some substance and matter of any description fits the bill. So, I say yes to your question, and now will hunker down to avoid the flak.

Answer 10

Very good question, let me answer you with an article I just finished and not on my site yet, see below:

Exponential Growth...

And doubling in time?

One of the most basic maths, we thought understood to be the fundamental true in the process of exponential growth and it's progress somehow we can't get it in our head.

For if we could, then we would 'see' why the same amount of food we intake cost twice as much for the same amount today then 10 years ago - how could it cost more today???

For example, rice cost twice as much today compare with prices 10 years ago and yet world food output increase more now then 10 years ago, while there were no exponential lost of agriculture land worldwide - was our maths wrong???

We add the quantity of money in the banks, the food we consume, the production of goods we use, the population and housing growth rates per year in percentage terms, we say the growth is exponential.

Money in the bank growth at a percentage, electricity production and usages growth at a steady percentage worldwide.

The true is exponential growth in time need for quantity to increase in size by a fixed constant.

Time is the factor need for quantity to double in size (by 100%) is also constant.

Let's take population growth for example, we increase in the height of buildings if population doubled in the city and doubled the number of buses on the road, we are better off, but are we???

There is an important difference between percentage growth and the doubling ratio by law of nature.

For example: Take the size of a 1-cubic centimetre cube with a cross section of 1 sq centimetre - i.e.: if we cut 1 face of the cube, that face is 1 sq centimetre.

Compare this to a cube which has doubled in size, a cube with 2 centimetres on each side.

Its cross-sectional area would be 2 x 2 (or 4) sq centimetres and its volume will be 2 x 2 x 2 (or 8) cubic centimetres. For the same density it would have 4 times the cross section and 8 times heavier.

The volume (and its weight) multiplies much more than the corresponding increase of cross-sectional area. China realized that the same principle can be apply to their population growth.

In 1978-1980 and again in 1984, researchers (and physics professor Albert A. Bartlett) highlighted the analogy with bacteria growths - the bacterium in a jar paradigm.

Bacteria growth by division, one bacterium becomes two, and 2 becomes 4, and 4 becomes 8 and so on .....

Suppose the division time of this bacterium is 1 minute - the steady growth rate.

And 1 of this bacteria got in a bottle at 11:00am and that grow started till the bottle is full of bacteria at 12:00 noon.

The professor ask you to consider this scenario (and outline the type of hypothesized chain events) - When was the bottle half-full ???

It was found that at 2 minutes before noon, the bottle was only a quarter (1/4) full ???

Question time:

If you were the intelligent bacterium in that bottle, what time would you realize that soon you will run out of space???

Can you sense the danger at say 11:55am when the bottle was only 3% full (1/32) and had 97% of open space???

Or suppose at 11:58am one of you intelligent guys suddenly realise that soon you will run out of space, and start getting your brain to work.

Luck was on your side that at the nick of time @ 11:59am when the bottle was half full, you have the technology ready to transport your people to 3 new empty bottles nearby - with 3 times the space that you had ever known.

You intelligent bacterium are smart as now with 4 bottles, you knew that if you don't do something now will fill up again.

The professor ask you again:

Suppose now you are actually human being, with your advance technology and now with 7 continents (including sub-continents), when will you fill them up???

Would you realize the size of your population @ 5 billion too much???

Or 6.5 billion to little???

What about 9 billion in a generation's time???

Do you still wonder why the same food cost more now???

Global warming will not annihilate mankind but human will.

Regards

Bill

http://www.freeuknetwork.co.uk/Definitio...

Bill

Answer 11

Time is the measurment of movement from one point in any given space to another point in space . Matter is linked to time only by the fact that matter allows us to observe the movement of time . Thought/memory/ ideas and emotion are at their most basic are chemical actions and reactions , therefore are made up of matter .

Answer 12

just go and read The Self-Aware Universe by Amit Goswami Ph.D

Answer 13

Time is a concept of humankind ,there is only change in matter and energy that progresses .Since we can't deem how much every object has changed and existed since we last observed it ,also to give accuracy to our purposes we conjured up such a definition .

Answer 14

Matter is linked to time