Time is a component of the measuring system used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify the motions of objects. Love love love wikipedia!
Time is a coordinate system to describe the location of an event in terms of a sequence of events. It is the coordinate that allows change and the progression of the state of things. At its most fundamental level it is indistinguishable from spatial coordinates, but experientially it takes a form that we cannot control as easily.
the cosmologist Tegmark says about time,
“If life were a movie, physical reality would be the entire DVD: Future and past frames exist just as much as the present one.”
We describe it in many ways: too slow, too fast, not enough of, too much of it on our hands, good, bad, wasted, precious, and daylight saved… but it’s an allusion.
It is best explained by Dr. Stephen Hawking in his book, “A Brief History of Time”
It is written for literate non-scientists and is well worth your “time” and effort.
@Dr_Lawrence
indeed i have read it
I have a good idea of what time is or rather what it isnt
i was hoping for a strange, artistic, philosophic, different kind of answer