Hypothetically, if a child was brought up without any reference to our human measurements of time (seconds, minutes, hours, days etc.), would it affect his/her concept of time passing?

For instance, we all have a general idea of how long 30 minutes is, but if someone was brought up without the ability to estimate how many minutes have passed, would they percieve time differently to the rest of us?

If you had a telescope of such power that you were able to see across and beyond the edge of the universe and back through it. what would you see if you looked at the earth?  would the image you see be of the past? 

If you were on a space ship travelling at almost the speed of light and someone from Earth called you and managed to connect what would that be like? Since you are both experiancing different time relative to your speeds what would happen?

If there is a spaceship travelling at nearly the speed of light, say 99.9%, as far as I know an observer will see it has travelled 1 light year in just over a year. However, for a passenger on that ship, time will slow down relative to that observer so will they think they have travelled a light year in less than a year and therefore faster than the speed of light? Is this possible or have I misunderstood something?

taking into account that time travels at roughly half speed when orbiting a supermassive blackhole, as mass 'drags' on time, could it be possible to exploit this fact to preserve items for use in the future?(source; Stephen Hawking's Universe)

For example, I've noticed that green apples survive much longer over strawberries and oranges, even when they are all kept chilled for the same duration of time.

Is time something more than just the way we explain that any movement occurred before or after another? nothing can happen at exactly the same moment so could time just be the order of everything? is it just a product of language that time cannot be explained, since the only way we can describe a progression of events is with vocabulary which is intrinsically linked to time? Would be great if someone has something real to say on this :D

Hi,

So Gravity and high acceleration can force time to slow down but if you move far away enough from gravity in the vast spaces between galaxies and with no acceleration to speak of you would be in a place which is approaching the theoretical fastest that time can flow.

But what factors determine how fast this actually is and how fast it is compared to an observer here on Earth?  Is it governed by factors that can change over time - i.e. is time in the depths of space speeding up or sowing down and what did it look like much closer to the big bang?

Thanks

Kevin

Melbourne Australia

An electron is both a particle and a wave, and we cannot define exactly where a subatomic particle/wave is because it is spread out across time and space - we can only define it through probabilities. Wouldn't there need to be infinite precision and no uncertainty in nature for nature to be deterministic? Considering that infinite precision and certainty don't appear to exist - because experiments show randomness and uncertainty exists at the heart of nature, then would it be correct to assume that both atomic and subatomic particles/waves do not always interact with one another with infinite precision and if so then is it correct to conclude that nature cannot be deterministic - i.e. by having exact knowledge of the starting conditions of the universe and infinite computing power it would still be impossible to calculate exactly how the universe would evolve?

How fast would a person percieve time to pass by if they were standing absolutely motionless in intergalactic space, away from the gravitational influences and motion of the planet rotating and orbiting around the sun, the sun orbiting the galaxy and the mortion of the galaxy.