My head spins when I think about time

[mixfijoe]

TL;DR Summary

Time,

Hi I’m new to this site as well as physics. But it fascinates me.
Is time the creation of movement?

 

[Nugatory]

The best way of keeping your head from spinning is to go with Einstein's definition: "Time is what a clock measures".

There is an analogy with something that Einstein didn't say because it was so obvious: "Distance is what a ruler measures".

 

[Dale]

TL;DR Summary: Time,

Hi I’m new to this site as well as physics. But it fascinates me.
Is time the creation of movement?

In modern science there are two concepts of time. Proper time is what a clock measured. Coordinate time is a coordinate in some coordinate charts (with some specific properties).

Proper time is the physical one, coordinate time is mathematical.

 

[Baluncore]

For me, it is the Earth that spins the non-renewable thread of time.

 

[russ_watters]

Just to nip a common follow-up in the bud; there are processes that aren't motion-based that take time and some can even be used to tell time/as clocks. So we know for sure it isn't required to be tied to motion.

 

[mixfijoe]

Just to nip a common follow-up in the bud; there are processes that aren't motion-based that take time and some can even be used to tell time/as clocks. So we know for sure it isn't required to be tied to motion.

Great answer. But what if everything stop moveing, from the smallest atom to the biggest galaxies. Would time still exist? Or would it stop?

 

[berkeman]

Great answer. But what if everything stop moveing, from the smallest atom to the biggest galaxies. Would time still exist? Or would it stop?

Just Think Timex...

https://therightreflection.com/change/takes-a-licking-and-keeps-on-ticking/

 

[Vanadium 50]

But what if everything stop moveing, from the smallest atom to the biggest galaxies. Would time still exist? Or would it stop?

I think that belongs in Philosophy Forums, next to "If a tree falls in a forest and there's no one to hear it is there a sound?"

 

[berkeman]

Welcome to PF.

Hi I’m new to this site as well as physics. But it fascinates me.
Is time the creation of movement?

Great answer. But what if everything stop moveing, from the smallest atom to the biggest galaxies. Would time still exist? Or would it stop?

You've received good and patient answers to your question, so I'll close this thread for now.

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