I think it might actually be a particle that we can't see because it goes away too fast and gets here too soon. — James Riley
So, a particle of time has speed, which is defined by the particle of time — jgill
A logical and qualitative structure that exists relative to a localised flow of energy/entropy, or distribution of attention and effort? — Possibility
The concept of time, how would one best describe it? — unintelligiblekai
The term "Directional force of energy" sounds really fit for a "clear" conception of time. If I understood you correctly, This is related to motion and it's necessary function of being dynamic? — unintelligiblekai
In the elementary equations of the world, the arrow of time appears only where there is heat. The link between time and heat is therefore fundamental: every time a difference is manifested between the past and the future, heat is involved. In every sequence of events that becomes absurd if projected backwards, there is something that is heating up.
If I watch a film that shows a ball rolling, I cannot tell if the film is being projected correctly or in reverse. But, if a ball stops, I know that it is being run properly; run backwards, it would show an implausible event: a ball starting to move by itself. The ball’s slowing down and coming to rest are due to friction, and friction produces heat. Only where there is heat is there a distinction between past and future. Thoughts, for instance, unfold from the past to the future, not vice versa - and, in fact, thinking produces heat in our heads...
Clausius introduces a quantity that measures this irreversible progress of heat in only one direction and... he gives it a name taken from Ancient Greek, entropy...
Clausius’ entropy, indicated by the letter S, is a measurable and calculable quantity that increased or remains the same but never decreases, in an isolated process....
Within the reflections in a glass of water, there is an analogous tumultuous life, made up of the activities of a myriad of molecules - many more than there are living being on Earth.
This tumult stirs up everything. if one section of the molecules is sill, it becomes stirred up by the frenzy of neighbouring ones that set them in motion, too: the agitations spreads, the molecules bump into and shove each other. In this way, cold things are heated in contact with hot ones: their molecules become jostled by hot ones and pushed into ferment. That is, they heat up.
Thermal agitation is like a continual shuffling of a pack of cards: if the cards are in order, the shuffling disorders them. In this way, heat passes from hot to cold, and not vice versa: by shuffling, by the natural disordering of everything. The growth of entropy is nothing other than the ubiquitous and familiar natural increase of disorder.
This is what Boltzmann understood. The difference between past and future does not lie in the elementary laws of motion; it does not reside in the deep grammar of nature. It is the natural disordering that leads to gradually less particular, less special situations. — Carlo Rovelli, ‘The Order of Time’
So then when we think of time, The typical understanding of it is primarily Psychic and unconscious. It is popular to describe time as a concept but it seems to me that when I hear that statement from the regular crowd, they do not portray signs of contemplation of what they mean by that. — unintelligiblekai
Is time merely a concept or the interpreted signals of what the world may be like to the senses? and by the world I mean experiences of physics in motion. — unintelligiblekai
You already understand what time is. Does that make it "beyond a concept"? Depends what a concept is. If a concept must be definable in words, then perhaps. — Banno
The Persistence of Memory contains a self-portrait over which is draped a 'soft watch'. For Dali, these 'soft watches' represent what he called the 'camembert of time', suggesting that the concept of time had lost all meaning in the unconscious world. The ants crawling over the pocket watch suggest decoy, an absurd notion given that the watch is metallic. These 'paranoid-critical' images reflect Dali's reading and absorption of Freud's theories of the unconscious and its access to the latent desires and paranoia of the human mind, such as the unconscious fear of death alluded to in this painting...
...The watches, which he says are:"nothing more than the soft, extravagant, solitary, paranoiac-critical Camembert cheese of space and time... Hard or soft, what difference does it make! As long as they tell time accurately.
The Persistence of Memory alludes to the influence of scientific advances during Dali's lifetime. The stark yet dreamlike scenery reflects a Freudian emphasis on the dream landscape while the melted watches may refer to Einstein's Theory of Relativity, in which the scientist references the distortion of space and time.
...The pocket watches are not the only references to time in the painting. The sand refers the sands of time and sand in the hourglass. The ants have hourglass-shaped bodies. The shadow that looms over the scene suggests the passing of the sun overhead, and the distant ocean may suggest timelessness or eternity.
...Three of the clocks in the painting may symbolize the past, present and future, which are all subjective and open to interpretation, while the fourth clock, which lies face-down and undistorted, may symbolize objective time.
...The denuded, broken branch in the painting, which art experts identify as an olive tree in the context of other Dali artworks, represents the demise of ancient wisdom as well as the death of peace, reflecting the political climate between the two World Wars as well as the unrest leading to the Spanish Civil War in Dali's native country.
Is time merely a concept or the interpreted signals of what the world may be like to the senses? and by the world I mean experiences of physics in motion.
Then again with my own word. The concept of time, how would one best describe it? — unintelligiblekai
And secondly, why shouldn't time be finite? IS there some logicla contradiction here that prevents it? — Banno
Since time is only a measurement taken from now, to as far back or forward as one likes, there is no end to how far back or forward one may go. — Present awareness
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