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Is time real or relative?

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Relative
67% 341 votes Total: 507 votes
Real
33% 166 votes
  • 1 of 24

    by Ian Loft

    There is a powerful but simple truth in the statement time flies when you are having fun'. This is one simple concept of relative time since it is a fact that time is a scienti...read more

  • 2 of 24

    by Geoff Weed

    While it may be tempting to argue that time is not relative, that it is a finite and completely inexorable, doing so also goes against that which some of the brightest minds of ...read more

  • 3 of 24

    by John Graham

    When I was young, time stretched on before and forty-year-olds were, I believed, on the edge of extinction. Now, as a seventy-five year old, I measure forward time in decades an...read more

  • 4 of 24

    by Liz Moore

    Time is most definitely a relative concept. Think back to when you were younger. Didn't time seem to move much more slowly? The wait for the end of the school year, a birthday,...read more

  • 5 of 24

    by G.B. McBride

    Time is a relative concept, even biblically speaking. Let us think about this for a minute. God created the Heavens and the Earth in 7 days; however, my Bible does not have a ti...read more

  • 6 of 24

    by David Maloy

    I am of the notion that we live in a multiverse. The Big Bang only explains the beginning of our current universe and not whether or not it's the first. If there is more than ...read more

  • 7 of 24

    by David Pickett

    Time. Its' purpose its' place its' life. Wait, what was that last one? Its' life? Well time can be changed and time will eventually end. At the end of time it shall be Armageddo...read more

  • 8 of 24

    by Reveigh Gautier

    It is difficult to make this argument longer than it needs to be, and to clutter it with an unlimited amount on information would be a waste. Like other individuals who belie...read more

  • 9 of 24

    by Adam Dorado

    If time was a real then it would be a prime number in a supersetted malformation in the context of super-semmetrical preclusions. The temporal inclusion we have come to hate is...read more

  • 10 of 24

    by Taha Saeed

    Time: What are you time? The nothingness that masses from one even after another? Are you infinite? I have yet to decide if you are infinite or not. you are just a concept that...read more

  • 11 of 24

    by Tristan Moorhen

    TIME IS RELATIVE...relatively speaking. One dictionary defines time as "the distance between two events." I like this definition. It's short and sweet, making it difficult to ...read more

  • 12 of 24

    by Kelly Piercy

    Is time real or relative? The simple answer is, the answer cannot be known; therefore, it must be relative. Heisenberg demonstrates that we cannot know anything to any degre...read more

  • 13 of 24

    by Stephen Carter

    The hardest thing to get your mind around concerning time is that it is not solely a subjective awareness of an action's 'duration', or the 'direction' of duration. Time is as m...read more

  • 14 of 24

    by William Prest

    Is Time Real or Relative? TIME: WHAT IT IS AND IS NOT Our unique position in the cosmic fabric has deceived us into thinking of time in certain ways. At certain levels of ...read more

  • 15 of 24

    by Moshe ben-Avraham

    In the articles "Exploring the theory that time does not exist" it has been suggested that time does not exist. Although this view may at first seem attractive, the view becomes...read more

  • 16 of 24

    by William Conner

    Time is relative and be can proved as such with one simple statement. Perception is reality. Many of the descriptions we see about time persuade us to believe it is a constant...read more

  • 17 of 24

    by Joseph Whalen

    Time is real subjective. As with anything that is measured there must be a standard to base that measurement on. Time is no different, what is different is that the standard w...read more

  • 18 of 24

    by Dawnn Heiliger

    I think we all know that there is certainly a real element to time, as it is measurable. Whether or not our modern ways of measuring time are man made is irrelevant, for the sun...read more

  • 19 of 24

    by Ravi Nayar

    We can bring in very cogent arguments & proofs that time is indeed relative from a very scientific point of view. But in this day and age of tabloids that is not going to make m...read more

  • 20 of 24

    by Lee Stephens

    "Time is perceived only by the living" Time is only relevant to living things that can perceive change. There is really no past or future. There is only an ever-changing pr...read more

  • 1 of 17

    by Doc Meson

    Time is definitely real, only our experience of time is subjective. We can observe this by focusing on how we perceive time - distinguishing two events. We use all our senses...read more

  • 2 of 17

    by Robert D. Twitchell

    Does time exist without a clock? The question of whether time exists in a real or relative sense is more of a philosophical exercise than scientific and must be considered on...read more

  • by 2011 AD

    The so called Christians can't or are afraid to explain creation even though it is all laid out in the Bible. First off I will back track somewhat. Every culture has been ab...read more

  • 4 of 17

    by Gary C. Gibson

    Time really seems to be relative, and relatively real. Time is considered to be unified with space in the modern context, and hence is called space-time. One may as well ask if ...read more

  • 5 of 17

    by Steven Garrett

    Time is Ambiguous and cannot be universally defined and applied: Time is Concrete & Relative; Time is Practical & Abstract; Time is Finite & Infinite. But even more, from an...read more

  • by Roxanne Dubarry

    In the very beginning of time itself: God created the heavens and the earth in actually six twenty-four hour days. He also established Saturday, the Sabbath day to be a day of r...read more

  • 7 of 17

    by Mac Mcleod

    My definition of time is that it was created to measure change. When you think about time, what is it really, it is not a thing, it is a measuring devise. The most accurate cha...read more

  • 8 of 17

    by T.C Leonard

    As sure as 7:30 comes to ruin every morning of my existence, time is a very real part of our world and universe. We may lead haphazard lives, but take a look at everything else...read more

  • 9 of 17

    by Maria Rodriguez

    I believe time is real I mean,we do so much during the day and time just goes by like you can never imagine, but if you notice once you come across your schedule and you plan yo...read more

  • 10 of 17

    by AMERICAN MAN

    ~=THE MAGICAL 'E'=~ E = MC2 encapsulates time - in transit; but an 'event' - that is real: Start I...'-events-'...I finish although many events occur, the transition of thei...read more

  • 11 of 17

    by Emo Roxas333

    I think of time as a real thing that effects everyone, everything, and of course all ideas. Time can be measured and is a variable in many things such as living organisms, ide...read more

  • 12 of 17

    by Brian Hurren

    Time, time has come to pass. Time.The so called fourth dimension. I think that time, as we experience it, is actually an illusion. It is some kind of quantum effect caused by so...read more

  • 13 of 17

    by Tami Roxanne Barker Norman

    Time is an interesting subject and time is also a highly debated subject based upon it's theories and meaning. I am no expert on time, and I deffinently can't say that I am a pr...read more

  • 14 of 17

    by Stephen Carman

    Carl Sagan once described time in terms of shapes of two dimensional objects. One was a triangle the other a rectangle and still another a circle (for example). He gave life to ...read more

  • by Michael Allen Carvell

    Time is real enough every aspects of our lives are set by and times set forth what every we are doing at that time. Time is how we each plan our life daily to live work sleep an...read more

  • 16 of 17

    by Rex Coker

    The existence of all mankind has evolved through the first words of the book of Genesis,"In the beginning"!God started the measurement of time.The first day he created the H...read more

  • 17 of 17

    by Aparna Guru

    Time is the most inquisitive thing to be analyzed. Time and space are interrelated. They can not be studied alone. Wherever there is space or a place, there is a time. The fact ...read more

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