Shorten time and other large earthquake, nuclear bombs generates the same effect. Why is time being shorten ? Answer: Matthew 24:22.Also 11 Chronicles 7:14 .

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Time is being shorten ... ? Dang. I wish someone woulda mentioned that to me ... now I gotta rearrange my whole schedule ...

The Earthquake in Chile appears to have moved the Earth about 8 cm off it's current axis, and shortened time by some point something of a second...


Time being a man made construct, and illusionary at it's best.... isn't that big an issue....the Earth tipped a little more on it's axis may have more of a global impact.

I wonder how much it altered the effect of gravity at the surface?

Do we weigh less?

Can I jump and reach the moon?

Man is the only creature that lives his life by artificial time.

Where did that information come from?

I believe it was on the order of a microsecond, which means, we would need about 1 million Haiti and Chile magnitude earthquakes to shorten Earth's day by one second. It's all in the wash.

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Au contrare. Time was NOT shortened. Space-time was not significantly effected by this event. The Earth's rotational period was, however, which is entirely different than space-time. A second is still a second, no matter how fast or slow the Earth spins.

Finally. Time itself was not effected. The period of the earth rotation was...yet hardly at all.

Time is not a man-made construct, only the measure of it. If we did not measure time, it would still exist, but we would have no way to differentiate events in relation to each other.

Someone else posted about mixing one set of metaphors with another in another place here...this is another example of that. Toss in a misunderstanding of what actually happened because of the Quake, and you get religious confabulation.
I wont debate anyone's religious beliefs (unless they thrust them upon me), but as someone else said, TIME was not affected. The only thing that was apparently affected, was how fast the Earth is spinning around.
As for gravity, last I heard, we don't even know what causes gravity. We just know how to predict it's behavior, which isn't the same thing. The only way to change the gravity we experience on this planet would be to change the planets' total mass by a large amount. A VERY large amount.
Kudos to donthatoneguy for his succinct response to the allegation of time being a man made construct.
General caution: there are VERY few "news reporters" who actually know much about the subjects they report about. Most of them are only trained to REPORT (i.e. reformat the information for a specific media), and have no understanding themselves of the complicated stuff they are reporting. They will therefore WILDLY and sloppily oversimplify the facts of a situation in order to make the story fit their desired packaging concepts. If you ever actually WITNESS something which you then see reported in the news, you'll see what I mean. Hilarious.

I'd like to debate this a bit, but I lack a clear and concise way of saying what I'm thinking.

It looks like you, me, donthatoneguy, and some others are familiar with how physicists use the word 'time'. That 'time' is not a human-fabrication; there is a true underlying reality being alluded to. It is what it is, and physicists use the word time to reference it.

DTG pointed out that our clocks use a man made system of measuring time, fair enough. And then there is our physiology-based perception of the passage of time, which is another matter. The meanings we associate with both of those are entirely man made.

What I'm trying to say here, is that it seems to me that there is a semantic issue here, and it can be correct to call 'time' an illusory man-made concept, and correct to say the opposite.

I disagree with the concept of time being "man made". Man makes clocks to measure it but animals sense time too.

Birds know the seasons and sense the time to migrate.

Dogs know when their masters are coming home and wait at the door (they catch a few mailmen this way too).

I have watched a bear time the jumps of a salmon to catch it midair.

Great stress and danger can change our perception of time and cause everything to appear to go into slow motion. I have experienced this event a few times.

Metal, I agree with everything in your post.

I assert that our subjective perception of time is illusory, as hinted at by your comments on stress.

I also assert that humans project meaning onto our measurement or perception of time which is not inherent in nature. One silly example is the whole confusion in which people think 2012 is significant in some way. Another example is found in the worldview that gives rise to the phrase "time is money".

People apply meaning to 12-21-2012 because its when the Mayan calendar ends. Some think the Mayans went no further because they predicted the world's end. Blah ... I think they just did not bother to go further because it was wasted effort and anything more meant nothing to them at the time.

However, according to some sources (which I'll not list here ... just Google 2012), there's supposed to be some kind of cosmic alignment on that date. The center of our universe, the sun, the earth and Jupiter will apparently perfectly align. Just another day probably ...