圣·奥古斯丁对时间问题作过颇多研究。他曾经说过,只要没有人要求他解释,他就可以告诉你时间是什么?这种直觉和道理之间的矛盾贴切地表达了大多数人关于时间本质的混乱认识。混乱的根源在于,比起任何其它物理性质来,我们对时间的感受更内在、更主观。英国天文学家 A.Eddington 爵士 St. Augustine made many studies on the issue of time. He once said that he could tell you what time it is, as long as nobody asks him to explain it. The contradiction between intuition and truth aptly conveys most people's confusion about the nature of time. The root cause of the chaos is that we feel more internal and subjective than any other physical property. Sir A.Eddington, a British astronomer