if time is man made who invented it?

Answer 1

Time isn't man made its recording is only a measurement in comparsion to the revolutions around the sun and the day/night system. Why not ask why time slows down the faster you go?

Answer 2

We humans invented time, our linear way of experiencing the moment by moment events that make up our lives force us to use the passing of time as real world marker that we can all agree upon in-order to record regularly recurring events or our next visit to the Dentist. Without it would be hard to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, or to have holidays.
But, what people invented time? That would have been the first tribes that understood the basic idea of farming, long before the Mesopotamia built their cities around (3500-4000 BCE) our ancestors had to have a basic understanding of the passing of time in order to prepare the fields for that years planting of the harvest otherwise if they didn't keep track of the changing seasons their village could go hungry or worse starve and if they would have starved well we wouldn’t have Yahoo Answer site. We may never know which people invented the idea of time but it would have happened long before 3500 BCE.
All the best;

Answer 3

The concept of time (with a small 't') is a cultutral device that varies around the world. It's a useful tool for calculating, computing, estimating, deciding and all those other 'ings'. Who cares who invented it -- maybe s/he shouldn't have...?

Time (with a big 'T'), that is, Cosmological Time, is a tool used by philosophers and physicists to construct theories etc. To that extent, it exists as an Idea. There is, however, mounting evidence that Absolute Time does not exist. See the websites listed.

Answer 4

The question should be who discovered time? The first recorded peoples (that I could find) to create a measurement of time would be the ancient Babylonians. They started with a lunar calendar. They eventually discovered the Metonic cycle, named after an astronomer Meton, somewhere around 432 B.C.E. It was a way for them to measure the seasons in multiples of moon cycles. They found that if they used a 19 year cycle, 7 of those years with 13 months and the other 12 years with 12 months each, they could continue to use the visible phases of the moon as the basis of their calendar. This helped them to keep the seasons in their proper place. It had very little use in everyday life so, it was not very pratical. It would take later calenders based on the solar "year" to correct and make the calendar useful for everyday life. I hope this answers your question.

Addition:
I found a much earlier time. I did not read as far as I should in the book. The ancient Egyptians had a solar calendar somewhere around 4241 B.C.E.

Answer 5

your question is based on if. conditionality is not something you shoud really bother yourself with. A series of other questions can be generated only form this one question based on a possible number of outcomes. there answers to these generated questions may either find thier bearing in space or thier answers may come from a world beyond our reach. for example if man did not invent time then who or what invented it is another question u will want to explore. other possibilities u might consider are what really proves that the time is what we say it is? is it 7 pm? why call it time. why not name ir say shoe or beer instead? why call it time. what is time? is even another intriguing question

Answer 6

The first man who invented the calendar and the counting of days, weeks, etc.

Answer 7

Mr Stanley Winston Smith
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Answer 8

Time is what humanity has made of it, nothing more and nothing less.

I have saying, "It permeates the very words you breath"

Speak inwards the next time you take one for you can actually speak backwards in that sense. Try it and see.

Whilst you are at it you might like to try another simple experiment which will assail your sense of perspective where time is concerned.

Raise your hand like you did at school as though you wanted to answer a question, with your hand still raised rotate your Index Finger in a "CLOCKWISE" direction.

Now, "KEEP" your finger rotating and bring your arm down perpendicular to just below your nose.

Which direction is your finger rotating now...

Answer 9

We didn't invent time, this is just the only way we can percieve time. a one dimension object cannot exist in our world, nor a two dimensional object, just the idea of it. we have created ideas of distance and inches for one dimensional objects. In a two dimension world (at least our representation of one such as a drawing on a piece of paper) can imitate the third dimension using shadows and angles to create the idea of a cube. Time cannot exist in our dimension nor us in it for these same principles. Instead, we perceive a series of 3 dimension objects one at a time moving from one point in space to another thus imitating time. Don't bother asking what time is actually like for we have no way of knowing, just vague hints. Do other people actually read all the way through these like I do? cause i hate wasting time.

Answer 10

Man didn't invent time - it was here long before us. We just invented ways of charting it's progress in ways that relate to us.