Daily Discussion: How would you explain the essence of time to a three year old?
This is a question a friend asked recently, and while she was looking for a much more practical answer, like using a wooden clock to teach the long hand and short hand, it made me wonder how you would try to explain something like “What is time?” to a three year old? It’s a question that isn’t clearly understood at even the deepest levels of physics… we know time is a real thing, but we don’t know exactly what it is, and yet how would you explain to a three year old the very essence of time stretching across the universe and back?
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