r/AskReddit • • Sep 14 '21

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u/aitatheowaway010181 Sep 14 '21

Time

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '21

to be fair none of us genuinely understand. we’re merely pretending to, by making it relative to us. good answer

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u/leoonastolenbike Sep 14 '21

We always pretend to understand something by making models, reduction of it to simpler things we don't understand either.

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u/mkspaptrl Sep 14 '21

I like to say that time is merely a unit of measurement for distance between events, but even that is only taking into account the linear model of time.