(September 28, 2009 at 3:19 am)Saerules Wrote: Consider the incredible practical uses of time being non-linear, Rhizo... the possibilities are endless Though how one would solve the time-travel paradoxes that would seem to be involved... I know not...
As for time itself... I've no certainty as to how one even defines what time is... I do not even see how one could define time. We seem to use it as a measuring device... but what is that substance that we are using? Time must exist though, as more than a concept...
Change takes time to occur... without change (and the transition period): nothing could occur. The question is not if time exists as more than a concept (because it must)... the question is this: What is this 'time' that exists?
Time is a dimension as described by the theory of General Relativity, if this fact was not true, GPS systems would not work, for example.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_...ity_on_GPS
Time can also be expressed as the gradual increase in entropy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(arrow_of_time)
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