What Is Time?

[pokerfan]

SAN DIEGO — One way to get noticed as a scientist is to tackle a really difficult problem. Physicist Sean Carroll has become a bit of a rock star in geek circles by attempting to answer an age-old question no scientist has been able to fully explain: What is time?

Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist at Caltech where he focuses on theories of cosmology, field theory and gravitation by studying the evolution of the universe. Carroll’s latest book, From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time, is an attempt to bring his theory of time and the universe to physicists and nonphysicists alike.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/02/what-is-time

[virgogal]

1. It's a formerly good news magazine.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. something one wastes when watching TV

[pokerfan]

3. Everyone's a comedian

:rofl:

It's also a village in Illinois.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time,_Illinois

[rug]

4. 9:39 p.m. E.S.T.

[HeresyLives]

5. Everything exists at the same time.

It's only humans who need to divide it into past, present and future.

Otherwise they get really confused.

[On the Road]

6. As St. Augustine Said:

"I know what time is until you ask me."

Oh darn, they used that in the article. That was pretty interesting. I had never heard the idea of a quiet parent universe.

[struggle4progress]

7. So according to the picture, time is like a piece of hose with some funnels attached?

[AlienGirl]

8. It's a series of tubes...

[laconicsax]

9. Too many Sean Carrolls.

When I hear, "Sean Carroll," I think about this guy.

[qazplm]

10. A kick butt band from the 80s

led by Morris Day!

[damyank913]

11. You mean the old fella with the long white beard?