There was a time when time did not matter. The thing that was an utmost relevance now was of no matter. The diffrence it made seemed miniscule and now it is constantly dictating everything that takes place before me. What is this thing that controls and makes everything manifest itself to its constraints and why and how does it do this. Time is nothing but the utmost miracle before us. Something that has always had to exist for anything ever to take place. There is no changing its course there is no variance in its absolute everlasting existance. To control time would be the utmost  crown jewel of all accomplishments if indeed it could ever be controlled. The only way I ever see time being manipulated to change its values is to speed up everything that time has interacted with. In order to do such a thing you would have to understand the nature of the objects in question and how they are effected by time. For instance a speeding car will slow down in time without constant force being distrubuted by the engine. To slow down the car one only has to take their foot off the accelarator and gradually time will do the rest but if you could freeze time at the speed at which the car was traveling then time would not  exist because the car would be traveling at a constant pace with time. At what speed time travels I'm not sure but it does move forward at a precise proponent. Even understanding the proponent that time moves at would be a major milestone. I think to understand the proponent at which time travels I think you would have to measure time against another absolute value of which their is only one and that is the speed of light. So the distance that light travels between two points in a given time is how to give an actual proponent to time. One an actual proponent is achieved one can concieve that time is not a variable but an absolute. An absolute that cannot methodically be adjusted from what we know of time now but in the future time may be able to be manipulated. To manipulate time a person would have to first gather a whereabouts of where in time they want to manipulate the proponent of time. Once that has been indicated to manipulate time look at the factors that keep time an absolute. As I see it there are several factors. One of the factors that keeps time an absolute is their is nothing physical with which you can inact something to make it change. So to inact something on something that has no physical attribute would seem an unlikely scenario. So to assume that time time has no physical attributes would be a devastating assertation that would seem to make the manipulation of time an impossible phenomonon. To me this seems an unlikely ascertation that time has no physical presence in the world in which we live and I think that if given a way to detect time one would find that time is in fact a physical proponent that can in fact be manipulated. In order to detect time we need to theorize what time is. To me time seems like an occurance that is happening all around us and everywhere in the universe. If time is everywhere than detecting time should be able to be done anywhere you have the right method of detection. My method of detection would start with a wave of strange proportions of which we have never seen or known of and it would encompass all kinds of diffrent particles that could be possibley propelling things forward through what is time as we know it. In order to start detecting these waves or particles I would look at very low level resonaters that can pick up wave lengths of all generalaties. A person can make a wavelength detector by performing flashlight over an empty space and looking for shadows on the ground where in the light has shined. Another way to make a wavelenght tester is by looking toward the horizon with nothing but your eyes and see if you see any kind of disturbance in the area of the sky and the space beneath it. If you do see some kind of disturbance then you know that something has made that disturbance happen.