Are we prisoners of time?
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What a great philosophical question!\n\nIndeed, none of us can escape from time.  It’s everywhere and unstoppable.  \n\nBut that doesn’t make us prisoners, I don’t think.  \n\nTime is an artificial construct that was invented by humans to keep track of… well, time.  When we were just Neanderthals, I don’t think our ancestors worried about time too much.  It simply was just not important to them.  Later on, people started counting days, and artificially decided to make it 24 hours per day, 60 minutes per hour, etc.\n\nGiven it’s only an artificial construct, I don’t think it’s capable of making anyone prisoners.  The only difference is what we do with the time in our lives.  As to whether “time” still exists after death, that’s another topic of discussion for another day.
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You must stop disseminating this information.  We are working hard to alter the past to create a better present for ourselves. We are a small group working behind the backs of the Imperial Crown now that they've outlawed time travel. Any written evidence of our presence will be picked up by the Crown and used to track our movements.  It is your corrupt present that brought these tyrants to power.  We are seeing their empire crumble in our present by the small inobtrusive adjustments we are now making in your world (cattle mutilations aside).  Please allow us to finish our work if you care about ending the enslavement of the future of mankind.   \n\nP.S.  High gas prices.  Sorry, that's us too.  We needed it to weaken the baddies.  Long story, but it involves Al Gore, decendent of Algor, Imperial leader. He was involved in the "gas collective" power grab of 2011. It is very important that it never happened - so sorry, but the oil conglomerate must retain it's power.\n\nP.P.S   Be nice to us, or we'll make sure you were never born!
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It is called the equation of time. It isn't really statistics though.
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Time does not move.  It appears to move.\nOur perception of time is based upon the logic centers of the mind.  With training, the mind can be suspended and at that point, time no longer has meaning.\nWhat humans associate with memories, we perceive as the past.  What our logical mind plans for is perceived as the future.  We live in the moment Now.  Our awareness is far less than perfect, so we tend to think in terms of time.\nOne of my favorite movie quotes is by Joel Grey’s character Master Chen in Remo Williams:\n“Time is a confidence game invented by the Swiss.”
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Do you really think you'll find an answer as to why the arrow of time exists on answers.yahoo.com?  For that matter, you won't get a satisfactory answer by polling the entire cal-tech faculty.\n\nBut I will think about it for the next few years... again.
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No, I don't think ANYONE could handle it.  No books!? And - as to whether it can correct inmates... do people actually DO 20 years of SOLITARY confinement?  That's almost sick.  I think people would go crazy after 6 months... if not much much sooner.  So, if by 'correct' you mean, 'make go crazy and perhaps be even more dangerous and certainly more expensive to take care of' then yes.
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Are you referencing the time dependency of the Schroedinger equation?  Or are you implying quantization of time?
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no, because time is only a mesurement that we humans have come up with.  if anything, you can't travel through time because there are an infinite number of universes constantly being created.
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time is something that humans have created so, no
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No. Time is connected to space in our own definition. Time is based on earth's revolution around the sun, and rotation on its axis. so it is relevant only to our own perspective.
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time machine can be created if we somehow catch the light rays which are currently present. what i want to say is that whatever is happening during this particular second is characterised by light rays. if we keep record of light rays of say  1st feb 2001 we can go back to that day.
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yes, it is called TIME
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What is time? We tend to measure everything by our learned standards.  Can you even try to imagine the Big Bang?  We as a race (human) know so little.
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Fact 3 can hardly be proved to be right or wrong, and was  many times illustrated to be possibly wrong without failing any other facts we know. Our perception of time might be an illusion, free will might be an illusion, and the "time" and "change" might just be just like sliding our view across a  completely static picture. My favorite reference to this is in Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut.
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Have we entered some time-warp back to the 80s?
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I believe that true time is simply another dimension we just haven't figured out how to move in any but one direction. Time as in seconds, minutes, etc are nothing but a random measurement we have placed on that axis; more random than how we chose inches, feet, or meters for the other axis'.
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What a debatable query! Very much suited to my interests. :)\n\n            First things first. Doorman proposed a fabrication that amused me. My beloved, time can bear itself in energy, yet memory hold itself solitary in such consideration. Memory is another term one is to consider in terms of biological structures, not energy. Were time to store itself in such energy one to explode by the time they get old XP. Yet your proposition holds itself true in one aspect. We forget. Like we lose energy. Yet memory holds itself in alliance to life, an indescribable, unphysical term.\n\n            Now for my proposal. We bear to our knowledge the sphere of our vision. What we see, we believe. Yet we go on FORWARD in time. Like a fluid. Space-Time-Continuum...\n\n            In accordance to one of Einstein's theory, the time holds itself in a stretch of another dimension all together. We know so much of time, yet in reality we know N-O-T-H-I-N-G.\n\n           Ask me why? The answer bears itself in utmost simplicity. We can only conclude on matters we are able perceive in correct mannerism. We do not bear such a sense organ nor are we able to implement over 4% of our brain, so as to perceive the concept of time in proper ideology. Therefore we cannot forge a concept concrete enough to bear the yoke of your question.\n\n          Yet we can ALWAYS speculate! In such speculations, we can come to many ways to rewind time. Suppose time IS a fabric. A vast expanse of infinite non-molecular material. If we are to possess a way to make a cut in this fabric, we can gain access to two different periods in time.\n\n          Now here's the boomer. What if time DOES repeat itself? Now stick to me while I take you to a psycho flight. Seatbelts on? good.\n\n         So far we have considered time to be a concept in whose relation we all exist. Now imagine this. WHAT if time is relative to every individual? No-one has been able to explain the term 'life'. Maybe this is because life IS time? What we consider time is the fabruication of us mortals. What if time exists independently for everyone? When one perishes, he is actually going to REPEAT his so called 'life'. Perhaps he period from the Big Bang to the collapse of the universe has repeated itself millions of times already!\n\n             Now thats a speculation. No-one can state it correct or incorrect, for one doesnot bear such perception. Perhaps we are just the play-stuff of a larger colossal existence. Then again, what is existence?