Time - Fluid ?

It depends if you are waiting at the hospital, or talking to a beautiful cat.
Del

If this is true, what will we do when the washer wears out??

I think they covered this in the Red Dwarf episode, "Out of Time"....

My favorite was the episode called "Backwards" and the look on the cat's face after coming out of the bushes.

The Plank time, something like 5.39106 × 10⁻⁴⁴ seconds. All time lengths are supposed to be exact multiples of that. No? S.M.

If time is considered as a flow, then velocity is the variable that controls it.As an object approaches C, "Time" slows down.From the perspective of the observer in motion,everything is ticking along at a normal rate, but many years can pass a stationary observer in the same interval.

Like an observer standing beside a river,watching a line of leaves float by,versus an observer on a boat traveling on the river at almost the same speed as the leaves.

The clock on the boat ticks ever time a leaf passes the boat,and the clock on the shore ticks ever time a leaf goes by.

If the boat slows down, the tick rate(time) speeds up.If the boat speeds up, the tick rate slows down.The boat can never reach or exceed the speed of the floating leaves(C),but if it could, it would in effect,stop time totally,or travel back in time, but that would require more energy than is in the entire universe.

The tick rate is the same for the guy on the shore,regardless of the speed of the boat.

There! Clear as mud?

Einstein was fulla "stuff". Time can neither speed up nor slow down as it's a dimension (one of the four that we exist in.) The speed of light, or the velocity of anything, is totally irrelevant to time as A. the speed of light is a variable not a constant and B. it exists as an element of content within the universe as we know it. (ie four dimensions... if there are more than four, they will still be dimensions, not elements.)

It's funny that you use the word "irrelevant" when pouncing on relativity!

Show your work...

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Entropy? As time flows, entropy in the universe increases.

When entropy equal infinity, time will stop. If I remember my thermodynamics correctly.

Entropy is rubish
Del

It all runs downhill!

You must be a young person. I experience entropy every day when it's time to get out of bed.

entropy is a constant for whatever the ambient temperature is so if the earth warms up does time speed up?

Wibbly wobbly timey wimey.

I'll explain later. I promise.

An instant.

(For whatever sense that makes)

Time does not "flow" Time is a dimension, one of the four dimensions in which we exist.

Bed time for me!

I'm an expert on this. The drop is how long it takes for the spurt to occur when the drip is under pressure. (ex-spurt)

"flow drop"???Did you mean like a drop/droplet of water? Like a unit of time? If that's what you meant by the question, then I'd have to say there is none.

Asking what a time drop would be is like asking how much a piece of Length or Width or Height is. Time is arbitrarily divided by humans into various segments - but that's for the convenience of humans and has no relation to reality. You cannot divide a dimension into pieces because by itself it has no actual presence as we understand the term. Dimensions are only descriptive place markers in the world we exist in. (Like map coordinates)

If poets studied physics they would think up less qwestionable, but more dull, metaphors.

Time is marker of movement and process - if in the end universe had come to standstill, had become "frozen" and all all processes stopped time would have stopped too ?

Time is marker of movement and process - if in the end universe had come to standstill, had become "frozen" and all all processes stopped time would have stopped too ?

Surely there would be some grumpy being that would say "it's been ages since anything good has happened around here."

I think it is Time to name our Sun...I'm not even sure if it has a number.