“Maybe Time Doesn’t Even Exist” | National Geographic

what is time that’s something that many
people think they know the answer to
they have written books about it I am
not convinced by any of those opinions
and I do wonder about it the Earth’s
rotation is affected by many things
the tides represent the oceans
attempting to follow the moon and when
they hit the seashore
it acts as a brake and that slows down
the earth over geological time we can
infer that in the dinosaur days the day
was only about 20 hours long now were 24
hours long in the future we’re going to
be longer still
there’s no such thing as a perfect clock
every clock has its own irregularities
but will now have to be victim to those
regularities we can correct for them and
by combining clocks we can get better
time than any one clock and more
robustly
I’ve never liked to carry watches I I
don’t really want the to consign my
concept of time to the measurement to
obsessed with measurement they can lose
track of the big idea and also lose my
own innate sense of time one of the
things that impresses me most about this
is the finiteness of time it’s time just
to coordinate that we used to do things
that maybe time doesn’t even exist
maybe time starts and then we’ll have
we’ll have an end of time well what does
it mean how is time related to infinity
I don’t have answer for those I do
wonder about
you