Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Visualising Time (12 Apr 2006) Time is an elementary magnitude, a primary concept that can’t be defined in terms of other, more basic, concepts. As such its definition is difficult and it’s based on the universal human experience that time does exist and has certain properties. In other words, we have a very rudimentary knowledge about the nature of time. You have only to look in any dictionary to realise that, in fact, we don’t have even the faintest idea of what time is except that it accomplishes certain features that (normal) people experience intuitively. Add this article to Del.icio.us Article URL: http://www.infovis.net/printMag.php?num=180&lang=2 Read 179 more articles from InfoVis sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Mastering Ajax, Part 5: Manipulate the DOM          Books about Usability | Information Architecture | Information Visualisation | Technology History This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy

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