Why Clocks Do Not Measure Time
from Echoes for Angela Hosted by Ryan MacLean
Season 1, Episode 51 What if time isn’t what your clock measures? In this episode of Echoes for Angela, we explore one of the biggest questions people have ever asked: What is time? Together, we’ll discover that clocks don’t actually create time—they measure stable, repeating patterns. By following the history of the idea from Genesis through the Hebrew Scriptures, the Greek New Testament, the Dead Sea Scrolls, medieval philosophy, modern science, and today’s artificial intelligence, we uncover a surprising story. Ancient people often understood time not simply as passing moments, but as beginnings, seasons, promises, fulfillment, remembrance, and the right moment for something to happen. With plenty of stories, humor, and examples, this episode invites listeners of all ages to see time in a new way: not merely as minutes and hours, but as the unfolding of ordered relationships that make life, memory, learning, and love possible. It may change the way you look at every clock you ever see.
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