Time is based upon the movement of heavenly bodies (things in the sky) and fundamental ratios of Earth dimensions. All of our measurements derive from these movements and ratios of sizes. Our measurements are very Earth centric, but the "agreement" is forced upon us by the natural harmonics and ratios of the physical system that we occupy.
As just one example of how measuring these harmonics gives us time:
The Earth takes a specific amount of time to rotate on its axis. If we look at the shadow of a pillar (obelisk, sundial point, etc.), the amount of time it takes to reach the exact same point on the ground is One Day. The amount of time the sun shines varies from day to day, but it varies in a repeating pattern. It will reach the same amount of "shining time" every 365 days. We call that One Year.
All measurements of time, distance, mass, etc. come from similar measurable cycles.
Going out one more level; the Earth precesses on its axis. The amount of time it takes to go through one cycle of this precession is 25,800 years. The tip of that precession (like the top of a spinning top) will point into a different part of the sky, a different "constellation" as it precesses. Each 2150 years (1/12 of the Great Year) the tip will point into a different specific constellation. That is where we get the different "ages." We are currently at the end of the age of Pisces (the fish) and heading into the Age of Aquarius. What that means is, the tip of the precession was pointing at the constellation Pisces, and will soon be pointing into Aquarius.
Why do we divide the sky into twelfths? Is that arbitrary? No, but I don't remember off the top of my head why. It has to do with the ratio of something. I will have to look it up. But all measurements are based on these harmonics from an Earth centric viewpoint.
While one can transform between the time and space axis within relativity, and indeed it is fundamental that one can do so when one relies on the axiom of the constancy of the speed of light in a Euclidian universe that SR uses, that doesn't mean that measurements of time and space are identical things.
Relativity is a theory (a very good theory that makes a lot of experiments make sense, but still a theory). It is a way of looking at things, it is not Truth itself. The universe doesn't care how we look at things, it just is. When I experience the universe I do not experience time and space as the exact same thing, nor do my measurements of time and space look the same. I have to put them into the framework of the theory of SR to make transformations between them look like the same thing.
Time and space are whatever they are. I don't need to use a four dimensional spacetime to describe them. Indeed, when I do I make mistakes (see the complete incompatibility of QM and GR, or the complete failure of GR in galaxy rotation curves, galaxy interactions, universe expansion, etc.).
So to think that they are the same thing is not necessarily appropriate outside of the scope where that axiom makes sense.
As far as I'm aware, no one has any real clue what "time" is.
It says 2021 on my iPhone. So there is that.
Pretty sure it’s close to the year 10,191…
Time is an agreed upon construct.
Kinda.
Time is based upon the movement of heavenly bodies (things in the sky) and fundamental ratios of Earth dimensions. All of our measurements derive from these movements and ratios of sizes. Our measurements are very Earth centric, but the "agreement" is forced upon us by the natural harmonics and ratios of the physical system that we occupy.
As just one example of how measuring these harmonics gives us time:
The Earth takes a specific amount of time to rotate on its axis. If we look at the shadow of a pillar (obelisk, sundial point, etc.), the amount of time it takes to reach the exact same point on the ground is One Day. The amount of time the sun shines varies from day to day, but it varies in a repeating pattern. It will reach the same amount of "shining time" every 365 days. We call that One Year.
All measurements of time, distance, mass, etc. come from similar measurable cycles.
Going out one more level; the Earth precesses on its axis. The amount of time it takes to go through one cycle of this precession is 25,800 years. The tip of that precession (like the top of a spinning top) will point into a different part of the sky, a different "constellation" as it precesses. Each 2150 years (1/12 of the Great Year) the tip will point into a different specific constellation. That is where we get the different "ages." We are currently at the end of the age of Pisces (the fish) and heading into the Age of Aquarius. What that means is, the tip of the precession was pointing at the constellation Pisces, and will soon be pointing into Aquarius.
Why do we divide the sky into twelfths? Is that arbitrary? No, but I don't remember off the top of my head why. It has to do with the ratio of something. I will have to look it up. But all measurements are based on these harmonics from an Earth centric viewpoint.
Time = space so your almost there but I’m suggesting it’s distance just like science does. Funny how the two terms intermingle
Meh, not exactly.
While one can transform between the time and space axis within relativity, and indeed it is fundamental that one can do so when one relies on the axiom of the constancy of the speed of light in a Euclidian universe that SR uses, that doesn't mean that measurements of time and space are identical things.
Relativity is a theory (a very good theory that makes a lot of experiments make sense, but still a theory). It is a way of looking at things, it is not Truth itself. The universe doesn't care how we look at things, it just is. When I experience the universe I do not experience time and space as the exact same thing, nor do my measurements of time and space look the same. I have to put them into the framework of the theory of SR to make transformations between them look like the same thing.
Time and space are whatever they are. I don't need to use a four dimensional spacetime to describe them. Indeed, when I do I make mistakes (see the complete incompatibility of QM and GR, or the complete failure of GR in galaxy rotation curves, galaxy interactions, universe expansion, etc.).
So to think that they are the same thing is not necessarily appropriate outside of the scope where that axiom makes sense.
As far as I'm aware, no one has any real clue what "time" is.
Can you elaborate on the picture?
There are definitely different timelines with things different in them.
Im with the Mayans, 2012 brought a new beginning age. Seems mostly dark so far.
its 14 521 AF.
All I know is its 5 o'clock somewhere.
keep connecting the dots
we dont
Time is made up.
I’m here it’s now.