do we move through time or does time move through us?
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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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You are traveling in time as you read this, You may adjust how fast you are traveling by slowing or increasing your velocity. Alternatively you may do so by subjecting yourself to a strong gravitational field. You may not travel in another direction. No matter how you adjust your travel through time relative to an outside observer from your own viewpoint time will seem to pass at the same pace.\n\nPlease consider becoming a member of my group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EarthII/
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Say yes or no if we did those things a century ago.\n\nOR\n\nSay whether or not we did those things a hundred years ago.
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Traveling forward in time is called "Day Dreaming"\n\nTraveling backwards in time is called "Reminiscence"\n\nWhy, we have this magnificent faculty of imagination that allows us to conceive of things that have yet not come. Time travel is going to be hard, we cannot reach anywhere near the speed of light and Time for some reason, just move in one direction - forward. We have never seen a broken vase collect it's broken pieces together to form a completely whole on its own. We have never experienced Time moving backwards.\n\nParallel universe, yes, nice concept. Would you consider the angels, demons, and the spiritual realm as a parallel universe or alternate universe? If there is a parallel universe, there would be a point or a place where the two can meet and if we can find this portal, we could perhaps slip into another world. But it is all just conjectures and no solid evidence today.
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Time has to pass means that, in order for change to occur, one must allow time.  Times are changing means that the customs of a particular period are altering into something more relevent to the current period.
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Time is a creation. It exists because we keep it. Distance is a constant, something inseparable from the fabric of reality.
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The past is only an abstract thought. It is only in your mind because it has already happened. It is intangible. It cannot be 'held' or 'changed'.\nThe future is also an abstract thought, it hasn't happened yet. It is only in your mind that it exists. It cannot be 'held', either.\nThe present is an infinitly small amount of fleeting time between the future and the past. Infinitly small - it really doesn't exist at all. \nSo time exists in the abstract thinking of your consciousness. \n\nI follow the supersymmetry and string theories that everything is energy - everything.
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time is not linear and people can shape shift, remote veiw, and time travel. For the answer to your question, simply sit and meditate upon it, it will become clear....you already know.
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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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Time is always now, now, now. We only really are certain about the present; our memory & evidence of the past, and our ;assumptions about the future. The past and future dont really exist, because they  dont exist now. The past used to exist, but doesnt exists now except what we know about it. The future will exist but doesnt exist now and so we don't experience it. \n\nTime continues on at a steady pace all the time as far as we know. There are theories that time has relation to other things, that time is affected as you approach the speed of light, but we haven't fully explored this theory. \n\nTime exists as more then that but only as a concept. We have words for many things that don't exist or that exist only as concepts.
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Neither are true - we ALL live in the present, no matter where we are!\n\nRegarding the 12-hour difference example you gave...it all depends on what's called the point of reference.  Here's an illustration.  Suppose someone is riding in a car traveling down the highway at 55 miles per hour.  You are passing them in your car, which is going 60 MPH.  As this is happening, you both pass a construction worker on the side of the road.\n\nHow fast are you moving?  It depends who you ask!\n*The construction worker, from his point of reference, would say 60 MPH.\n*The driver of the car you are passing, from HIS point of reference, sees you moving at (60-55) = 5 MPH\n\nWho's right?  They both are!  (from their point of reference)\n\nNow, let's ask the person in Japan the answer to your question.  He would say you are wrong - he is living in the PRESENT, and the Latin American is in the past.\n\nLet's ask the person in Latin America the same question.  He would ALSO say you are wrong!  he is living in the PRESENT, and both you and the person in Japan are living in the FUTURE!\n\nWho's right?  Everyone!  No matter who you ask, anywhere in the world, they are living in the PRESENT!\n\nMake sense?  Hope this helps.
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Theoretically possible. See: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/time/through.html
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According to Einstein, all time is relative, actually.  The simple act of moving through space changes time relative to everyone.  It's only near the speed of light, however, that the effect really becomes noticeable.  As you approach the speed of light, time slows to a stop.  You wouldn't directly notice it, but the rest of the universe would seem to be slowing to a stop, in your perception.  I could explain it here, but Wikipedia sums it up rather nicely:
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scientifically there is no past present or future. they are only words we use in referrence while using our standard clocks. time is measured by differently by how you use it. if we lived on jupiter instead of earth our referrence of a year would be way longer.\n\non a scientific note you are write but it is important to use past present and future referrence so that you dont get instances confused. time is usually organized in chronological order becuase that is how we veiw things in first person instead of thinking outside of the box.\n\npast is usually meant as in referrence to something that has already happened.\n\nnow is usually referring to an even that just happened or is currently happening or will happen in the close future.\n\nfuture is often referred in long distances like weeks,months,years,decades,centuries,and milliniums.\n\nI realize that when you say "the universe was born just now" you are referrering on a larger scale of time. as in billions of years. your just shortening your meaning of that referrence of relation to our daily lifes to something that we can logically think about.
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well, we all assume that time flows in one direction and one thing follows another. Maybe that's just the way we see it. Try to imagine that you were a cartoon, 2D on a page, you have no concept of the 3rd dimension. If we could se everything that had happened at once, time wouldn't be linear but I digress. In effect non-linear time means that one thing would not necessarily come after the other e.g. I wrote this 'before' you asked the question.
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Einstein said we are living in the past time, that means we have not "now time"!\nSo, nobody can not answer, what time is it! maybe we can ask, what time was it!!
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Time is more of a playing field than a player. It is the stage on which everything happens and not an active participants. So, to answer the question: Nowhere/Everywhere. It doesn't have to move because it always exists everywhere, cronologically speaking.\n\nSocially speaking: Time flies when you are having fun.