Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences question

In Indo-European languages "time" is not typically just an abstract one-dimensional continuum; the abstract time is a dialectical negation of the idea of time as the rich environment of external conditions that may influence our system, but which we can influence only negligibly: In Italian tempo (time) also means weather, in Danish the word for time is tid, which is old English for tide. In a Zeit-ung like the Times the tidings describe the whole tempestuous march of events over which the reader has little control. In English we have "the worst of times" and "the best of times", and "the times are a-changing", something a mere smooth line cannot be or do.

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