Time - food for thought

<p>One of Barbara's poems got me thinking about time, and reminded me of a discussion I had with an astrophysics student recently.</p><p>He was explaining that the idea of the time/space relationship, meaning that time has no direction, is a complete fallacy and that, in this universe, time only goes forward. He gave a few examples of what he meant and, at that point, I was still with him, but when he went on to suggest that in a parallel universe, time only goes backwards, and people start old and become young, and broken things pick themselves up off the floor to become whole again - well, this made my head hurt, and I started to look at him suspiciously!</p><p>I have always looked at time much more simply:</p><p><strong><em>Time is the distance between two events.</em></strong></p><p>The more events, the more time. This is why time goes so slowly when you are a child; everything that happens is an event to a child, so life is a vast ocean of time.</p><p>Haven't you noticed that people who say they have no time actually do very little, while those whose lives are really hectic always have time?</p>