I heard about einsteins theory of relativity (or something), like if ur in a different planet vs on earth, one person may grow older faster than other guy? well this still doesn’t make sense to me. the way i see time is that its just a way of keeping count of somethings age. but scifi movies and einsteins theory is like saying time is affected by speed?
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Time is what clocks measure.
If you take a look at what a clock actually does, if you open up a clock and take a cold scientific look at the empirical evidence, you will see cogs turning or a crystal oscillating. You will see that the clock features some kind of regular cyclical motion along with something like gears or a counting device, and it gives some kind of display of the thing we call “the time”. However all that’s actually happened is that cogs etc have moved, and the big hand has moved along with the little hand.
The point is that there is no actual thing called time that’s literally flowing. Instead light moves, planets move, people move, hearts move, blood moves, lungs move, air moves, electrochemical signals move in nerves and brains, and so on. Everything moves, including pendulums and cogs in clocks, and oscillating quartz crystals and electrons in the circuitry within the watch upon your wrist. It’s a measure of motion.
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