What is time???

[Uncle Fester]

What is time?

So how would you answer this question to an 11 year old?

I have a definition but I'm curious if any of you care to respond first.

Here's a magazine article from Alan Alda's childhood question "what is a flame".

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencein...ientists-.html

[Wes]

I suppose explanations of entropy and non-symmetry of decay are out.

[Uncle Fester]

I suppose explanations of entropy and non-symmetry of decay are out.

Not sure if an 11 year old would understand that.

[Fezz]

"Time just is!"

[fjpod]

I would tell a young person..."time...is on your side..., yes it is."

[Uncle Fester]

How about- Time is a measurement that allows us to experience the third dimension where we have depth.

[vcom]

Time is the space between two moments.

[Wes]

How about- Time is a measurement that allows us to experience the third dimension where we have depth.

Or: time is the fourth dimension that allows us to experience the other three dimensions as a continuum?

[thelittlestnixon]

From my good friends at wikipedia:
"Time is a dimension in which events can be ordered from the past through the present into the future, and also the measure of durations of events and the intervals between them."

But, i prefer: time is what lets us know we're late.

[finefocus]

Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.

[Joe Zewe]

Time is the group that backed up Morris Day back in the 1980s. See Purple Rain.

[Wes]

Time is the fire in which we burn.

[fjpod]

Time is a magazine.

[fjpod]

Time is what you get when you rob a bank.

[manoj_verma]

Time ..............A Myth , A Lie.
The Only Tool ,capable in making anybody ,anything OLD .

[Fezz]

Time is emit spelled backwards!

[Fezz]

Time is something that you wish you could save in a bottle!

[Fezz]

Time is the 4th track on Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of The Moon album.

[Fezz]

Time is something that has come today according to the Chambers Brothers!

[optilady1]

Time is what sags on women and looks rugged on men. You ******s.

I wrote b u g g e r s!

[fjpod]

Time is what sags on women and looks rugged on men. You ******s.

I wrote b u g g e r s!

If you really wrote ******s, you wouldn't have covered it up.

[gmc]

Or: time is the fourth dimension that allows us to experience the other three dimensions as a continuum?

Unless you're Billy Pilgrim. For him, time isn't linear.

[Steve Machol]

According to The Rolling Stones, time is on their side.

[obxeyeguy]

Time is the moment to ponder the future, or remember the past.

[kentmitchell1961]

Time is relative, the longer the relatives are visiting, the more time slows down...