  Using the concept of collision time (time delay) introduced by Eisenbud and
Wigner and its connection to on-shell intermediate unstable states, we study
mesonic resonances in pi-pi and pi-K scattering. The time-delay method proves
its usefulness by revealing the spectrum of the well-known rho- and K*-mesons
and by supporting some speculations on rho-mesons in the 1200 MeV region. We
use this method further to shed some light on more speculative meson
resonances, among others the enigmatic scalars. We confirm the existence of
chiralons below 1 GeV in the unflavoured and strange meson sector.
