What is time? And what makes it slower the closer it is to Earth?

Question

Wild questions yes. Just interested in what you all have to say.

Answer 1

Time is strictly a consequence of motion. In theory, a mass with absolute zero motion does not experience time, though it is impossible to achieve absolute zero motion in our universe. A mass that is traveling at a high velocity will experience time faster than a mass traveling at a low velocity.

I have no idea what your second question means.

Answer 2

i would say units to measure how the cycle of life moves on. Being bored makes it slower. lol.  )

Answer 3

Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.  The more things are happening, the more time there is.

Answer 4

This is a very simplified answer and really inadequate but the best I can do without a diagram, or, even better, a chalkboard.

Time is the measure of the sequence of events.

Space and time are acutally one - spacetime.

Gravity is the bending of spacetime. The more spacetime is bent, the slower time is. So Earth bends spacetime because of gravity. A black hole bends space time vertical so that it has an undefined slope and it stops time.

If the idiots I first explained this way to could understand that, you should be able to. But then I had a chalkboard to explain it to them.

Answer 5

Long before the advent of Energy, there was Time. No matter how it's measured, Time is universal.  Time has no beginning, it is never ending, and always occupies the present.

Answer 6

Time is believed to be totally relative to our position in space. It is thought to be the by- product of a "warp" in the space- time continuum caused by gravity.

This "warp" is believed to be, for us, our  position in space relative to a "black hole".

Sounds good?