what is time

I have always thought of it as the passing of the body form one moment to the next

Thanks to Bill I am now posting this here also, maybe I'll be a bit more active in this group than others

RedSoxpawn wrote:

what is time

I have always thought of it as the passing of the body form one moment to the next

Thanks to Bill I am now posting this here also, maybe I'll be a bit more active in this group than others

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According to Minkowski (yes, I know that Einstein bloke had something to do with it as well) time is just another dimension. That doesn't explain why it is a one way street. 

I think it is a one way street because you can't do back, but didden't they prove it was possible?

If time is "just another dimension" then it should be possible to move either way through it. Another puzzle is that my time dimension may well be one of your distance dimensions depending on our relative positions, velocities and accelerations. Oh the joy of relativity!

ohboy, I just love time, atleast this is something to talk about

isn't time in the 5th or 4th demention so what happen's if you leave it will you die or can't you you don't know what happened because it's instant but you stay there forever? confusing huh?

Time should be the fourth dimension. Kaluza and Klein came up with a way to unite relativity and quantum mechanics via a fifth dimension. That is all neat and tidy but it didn't convince the physicists (thay can be a bit cantankerous at times). The current wonder theory is superstring theory which attempts to do the same job with 11 dimensions! Being a simple minded physicist I prefer the simplest theory so I'll go with Kaluza and Klein.