TIME is not only relative, it does not exist at all!
TIME has been invented by man to have an orderly scheme of his day and night and other enterprises.
No matter what kind of finite factor physicists put upon time, it is still RELATIVE to man as he invented it. Step back and think.
Does a minute have substance?
Does an hour have more substance?
Does eternity exist?
MAN evolved from lower species until he finally was erect, and after a very long(time?) he began to speak and think a little bit.
Some very long (time?) ago, man looked at the rising sun, and later that day, saw the sun set, and he screamed the word “day!” Soon he was being taken advantage of by a bigger man, and that bigger man said, ‘I want this creature to work all day…I’d like to have a syatem to control how long he works and where he is at some specific(time?). So he created the hour, and extended that to ‘how long a (time?) is an hour? Sixty (minutes?)’.
That kind of thinking probably is very recent, perhaps with the early Egyptians.
The idea or concept of ‘order’ spread over the world, thinly at first, but then became universal as man began to travel, and found much to his surprise that the Egyptians had a (clock?) It had water that dripped slowly out of a container a(second?) at a time, sixty drips to a (minute?) and refilled every (hour?).
Centuries (time?) pass… our traveler finds that several other kinds of “clocks” have been fashioned…most of them have a spring that is wound or weights that descend slowly pulling wheels that pull other wheels and denote on a dial in the front hours, minutes and finally, yes, seconds.
A genius takes this ‘portable’ time-piece called a watch or chronometer, and finds that it is very useful in travel by sea…one can locate a star or a sun or a moon, and with ‘time’ that is accurate, know exactly where he is on the earth. It is a great advance, and helped a very great deal by the Chinese discovery of the ‘lodestone’ and the subsequent crude compass.
(Time?)is now very important. It not only dictates the way and when people work, it controls their travel, tells them when to eat, and when to sleep. It is becoming indispensable.
The 19th Century arrives: we have COUNTED the groups of one hundred years as “centuries” from the Latin word for one-hundred. We KNOW that we are in the 19th century because we have been TOLD so by people who understand (time?).
In the latter part of the 19th century, men discover that the entire world is made up of particles. Eventually, in the NEXT century, the 20th, man looks at and experiments with these particles and gives them names: molecules, atoms, and finally, sub-atomic particles.
A Swiss but born in Germany, Einstein, looks at all of the papers written by other highly brained people like him, and sees that not only do these particles hold immense power, the power tht glues them together, but that the factor of (time?) is crucial in how the glue holds and what we can do about it.
Other scientists apply this idea to outer space and soon (time?) is playing a great part in the observation of the unknown universe and universes. (Time?) has become RELATIVE.
Since the speed of light is known by small experiments, scientists can now look at happenings that took place billions of years ago, as the light that showed them is still traveling toward our telescopes though the worlds have disapeared (aeons?) ago.
We are in the modern world where ordinary (time?) regulates our arising, eating, working, and relaxing…
We have arrived at a point where our science is time-dependent, our exiatence is time-dependent, our future is time-dependent, our deaths and tombs(aetat 2008) are time-dependent, our lives and everything are time-dependent.
But sit back and think: time has no volume, can’t be seen, nor grasped, and does not have an odor.
We live and die with it but:
IT DOES NOT EXIST!
