Time and Motion

The first serious post... about time and motion...
So what is Time really? (Reminds me of a joke: somebody once asked my Uncle "what is time, bhaisahab?", in typical Indian ishtyle, and Uncle, with a grave face, replied, "that, dear Lady, is a very difficult question to answer.")
Typically, humans tend to relate time with clocks and watches, or as something that goes inexorably on. We tend to think that all the clocks and watches in the world may stop, but Time will still move on. Time seems to have become so important, especially to the modern city-dweller, that life itself takes a backseat to the demands of Time.
However, none of this makes any difference from the philosophical, or meta-physical point of view (which explains why some of the Ancients had a much better understanding of Time, than most of us ;) ).
First of all, Time is a (human) idea, a concept, a thought. Let the Seeker think deeply about this.
If the Seeker agrees with the above, he (ladies please excuse me, I do not mean to be gender-biased) should derive that Time, as we understand it, does not have any physical existence, rather like Space, Numbers, and Triangles, it is a abstraction of an idea existing in Nature.
For example, corresponding to Space, we have the distance between any two objects, to Numbers, we have the count of objects in a collection, and so on.
The question naturally arises, "What is the physical existence whose abstraction is Time?" The intelligent Seeker, pondering over this question, may find the answer startling, though simple: it is Motion.
Yes, I know that you had always known this, but wait and think: Had you? Really?
Did you know that if the motion of all the particles in the Universe be stopped, Time will stop? Did you also know that if these particles have their motions reversed, Time will reverse, and people will die before they are born? Did you also know that if a closed system (a system that exchanges neither energy nor mass with the rest of the Universe) has this reversal of motion happening to all its particles, that system will go into the past compared to the rest of the Universe...and we will have a Time Machine?
Think, O Seeker, did you know all this, or did I tell you, or is it that this knowledge, always within you, has just been brought out??
Now back to the real (or seemingly real?) world, and apply this knowledge. If you can't build a Time Machine, atleast remember this always: You are the creator of Time, and therefore its Master. Do not, ever again, become the slave of Time.