• Question: What are the laws of time?

    Asked by shiniqua to Arlene, Colin, David, Eugene, Paul on 18 Nov 2012.
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      Paul Higgins answered on 18 Nov 2012:

      In our daily lives, time is pretty boring, and flows at pretty much the same speed, no matter where you are on earth. However, Einstein’s laws of relativity predict that time flows noticeably differently if you are moving really fast (100000 kilometers/second) or near a really strong gravitational field, like a black hole. Einstein figured out that time and space are tied together…

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      David McKeown answered on 21 Nov 2012:

      I’d say the main law of time is that in only flows in one direction. By which I mean, It always increases, we always get older everyday. You never wake up in the morning and the direction of time has reversed and you are younger than before.

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