In our everyday way of life we live through time, keep track of it, and race against it, yet only a few people from – the ancient Greeks, to philosophers, theologians, and many discoverers in the modern sciences – would be able to give an explanation to, what time is?
This conundrum of illuminating about time is best explained by St. Augustine, who said “what is time then? If nobody asks me I know, but if I were desirous to explain it to one that should ask me, plainly I do not know”. From Parmenides, western civilization has grappled with the question of time. Zeno the Elea advanced four arguments against the possibility of time which are famous as Zeno’s paradoxes.
All the four arguments were for the reason that there is no change in universe, hence no motion and our experience of motion is an illusion– there is no change and no absolute time. Leibnz was of the same thought process as....
