What is time?

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22 June 2009

What Is Time

Introduction

Since the very beginning of the human history and up to the present times , the question of time has been a matter of the major philosophical and mathematical concern . Where scientists sought to establish the single and universal definition of time as applied to astronomical and geometrical linear concepts , philosophers tried to reconsider the relevance of time through the prism of its relativity , instability , and its relation to eternity . Given the continuous evasiveness of

time and its never-stopping nature , it is difficult to deny that the concept of time comprises numerous features that are not always readily visible to researchers . Simultaneously , our growing dependence on time turns the latter into the critical component of our daily functioning . In reality and taking into account numerous ideas about time , time is an intangible category which in our world is directly associated with the movement of space bodies around the earth , and which also exemplifies a relative measure of events

Really , the whole history of mankind is associated with the continuous search for the single and universal definition of time . For years and centuries hundreds of scientists , archeologists , anthropologists philosophers , and religious adherents sought to create a clearer vision of time . In the light of its evasiveness , and given the intangible nature of time , it was more and more difficult for humans to come to a simple and common agreement with regard to the definition of time . Now as...