Monday, January 14, 2013

WHAT IS TIME?

1. What is time? We are familiar with all these. My alarm clock would tell me the time to wake up in the morning. The watch on my wrist would tell me that I have just missed my train because I have got the wrong time. But the clocks and the watches can't be time. If they are, and when they cease to exist, time would also cease to exist. But this is absurd.

2. St Augustine says: What, then, is time? If no one asks me, I know; if I wish to explain to him who asks, I know not.

3. Some people would say that time is the movement of the planet earth. But there is also problem here. Planet earth is a body. And body has been shown to be nothing. Can nothing move?

4. What is time?

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