What is time?

[commonsense]

Jake the peg, I would like to hear your theory?

[tao]

It is reported that Saint Augustine said, 'I know what time is, but when people ask me, everything is lost, I cannot answer.' And Augustine is right, because profundities cannot be asked, cannot be questioned. You cannot put a question mark on a mystery. If you put a question mark, the question mark becomes more important; then the question covers the whole mystery. And if you think that when you have solved the question, then you will live the mystery, you will never live it.

[Ethmer]

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"What is time?"

time
n.

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a. A nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future.

b. An interval separating two points on this continuum; a duration: a long time since the last war; passed the time reading.

c. A number, as of years, days, or minutes, representing such an interval: ran the course in a time just under four minutes.

d. A similar number representing a specific point on this continuum, reckoned in hours and minutes: checked her watch and recorded the time, 6:17 A.M.

e. A system by which such intervals are measured or such numbers are reckoned: solar time.

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[mibn2cweus]

Jake? we�re waiting . . .