Time itself is real. It's evidenced by the aging process of pretty much everything. Carbon dating is evidence of the passage of time. What isn't real, as in what's man-made, is the measurement of time. How long a second is, how long a minute is, how long a year is is all designated by man, not by nature. The perception of time varies as well based on light, but time, in of itself, is still real.
Man-made? No, it's something every animal learns sooner or later. In the mathematical sense it's still incorrect to state that, calculating time through matematics is certainly not man-made since unknown life form may had the ability to do so even sooner than the human race has.
OP: you cant really deny the biological clock :lol
Man-made? No, it's something every animal learns sooner or later. In the mathematical sense it's still incorrect to state that, calculating time through matematics is certainly not man-made since unknown life form may had the ability to do so even sooner than the human race has.
OP: you cant really deny the biological clock :lol
"The past only exists as a memory: a mental state that we can only experience in the present moment. We cannot visit what happened 30 seconds ago any more than we can visit what happened 1000 years ago. All we can do is hold those things in mind in the present.
The future only exists as an expectation: a mental state that we can only experience in the present moment. When we fire an arrow, we can anticipate that the arrow will strike the target, but at the moment we fire it we cannot visit the moment when the arrow strikes the target, any more than we can visit the moment we picked up the bow.
The present moment has a sense of motion, but that doesn't necessarily translate to a sense of the passage of time; All of us, I think, have had pleasant or painful hours where we simply lose track of time completely. Our sense of time is - again - a mental state that we can only experience in the present moment. We mentally impose a trajectory on the motion we experience by bringing a memory into mind and using it to construct an expectation, but we don't really experience that trajectory except as a matter of memory and anticipation.
We naturally assume that our mental construct of time reflects some actual, material, real-world property, and while that's a perfectly reasonable and pragmatic assumption, it is not by any means an established fact. All we really know for certain is that at we have memories and anticipations that seem to shift and change in an orderly, systematic way, with our awareness sitting motionlessly between them."
"Time is JUST a measuring tool. Just like you measure the distance of a mile, people decided to measure whatever was happening when you do something. The sun comes up, the sun goes down, all that's haopening is earth is rotating. Earth is not following a clock, it's simpy performing it's actions. From starting to finishing the action is where time comes in.
And it's also dependent on light.
For example, think of this.
Aliens that are a trillion light years away from us who turn their gaze to earth, might be witnessing dinosaurs roaming around, long before their extinction. It's because of this:
Light reflects off of an object then TRAVELS in all directions, eventually meeting an observer. Light that reflected off of dinosaurs is older than us and has traveled further from the earth before the light reflected off of humans. Matter can neither be created nor destroyed, so is the light reflected off of the dinosaurs any less real than when physically they were here? Their actions are observed by a foreign entity, and it's light that is keeping them alive.
We know there are no dinosaurs here, but aliens don't. They're watching them roam around and live their life cycles. Does that mean they're living in the past for being able to see dinosaurs? No it's just that the RELATIVE light (newer light, our light) hasn't reached them yet so we simply aren't there.
"Time doesn't exist because time and light and everything else are all relevant to the observer. There is no overarching rule that commands everything. It's all relative to YOU."
Most everyone knows that Einstein proved that time is relative, not absolute as Newton claimed. With the proper technology, such as a very fast spaceship, one person is able to experience several days while another person simultaneously experiences only a few hours or minutes. The same two people can meet up again, one having experienced days or even years while the other has only experienced minutes. The person in the spaceship only needs to travel near to the speed of light. The faster they travel, the slower their time will pass relative to someone planted firmly on the Earth. If they were able to travel at the speed of light, their time would cease completely and they would only exist trapped in timelessness. Einstein could hardly believe there were physicists who didn’t believe in timelessness, and yet the wisdom of Einstein's convictions had very little impact on cosmology or science in general. The majority of physicists have been slow to give up the ordinary assumptions we make about time."
It make's sense though. all the earth is doing is rotating around the sun. So technically the birth of earth and it's death exist within the same frame. Time didnt actually past, a new event just happens to happen within the now.
If time existed it would be concrete and wouldnt vary from area to area within space.
Mass and light determines how you perceive time
It's more of a human measurement to keep up with things.
What's a year? Earth's cycle around the sun right?
Whats a day? Earths cycle off it's on rotation right?
Let's say the earth stopped moving.
One side would forever be day and the other forever night.
There wouldnt be a tuesday or may 18th or etc.
reality is just one big day with various interactions.
Well if you think about it, our entire experience of reality is just a memory.
No matter how fast it is, our sensory organs only perceive what has happened.
Which means there is no present moment, everything in our reality has already passed.
