Does time exist?

Question

Or is it a human created phenomena?

Answer 1

I believe time is a form of measurement and time it self is just allusion. The universe is forever.

Answer 2

Time is a man made entity. It has been around forever but given a name in many cultures thousands and thousands of years ago. The invention of the sun clock was one way to measure time, incl. many various calendars used through history in different cultures, the Mayan calendar, Biblical calendar, and Islamic calendar would be a few examples. In my opinion, time is only something we assign a meaning. Until we assign a perception, it is nothing. If you were to visit an isolated culture in the Amazon jungle I doubt time would be of a huge importance, if mesured at all. Perhaps in season, but that is not too specific.
It is a human created phenomena.

Answer 3

Time alone, does not exist in the manner that we have assigned it.

In general, time only exists if you believe it to exist.

I believe it exists, because I have an alarm clock. And I used to dial "time of day" And if I don't show up to work on time, my boss says "why weren't you to work on time today? This is the fifth time.. I'm sorry but I'm going to have to let you go"

A fact is only what you believe to be the truth.

And that is a fact. :)

But.. if you look at the detail behind time?....

Time is immaterial in darkness.

Without objects in motion , mass and energy, there would be no time. i.e. there is nothing to measure the passing of time without these factors (for us humans that is in our closed minded thinking)

The problem behind the concept of time? We're comparing two opposites. We are humans (finite in nature to simplify this) and we live in an infinite universe. The only way we can control or give reason is if we are capable of measuring events that make up this universe. The only way we can do this is if we control our physical environment by dividing and referring to time in 'instants' in order to deal with this problem of finites living in an infinite world.

Some day us humans will become smart and start looking at this world in a non-linear way. Seems impossible doesn't it :)

Time as how us humans have explained and define it.. in my opinion, doesn't really exist. It is most definitely human created myth - along with freaking everything else ! LOL

Answer 4

Time exists and it doesn't exist.

In the relative experience, time is simply the linear progression.

Due to the nature of our consciousness, our experience is generally linear, ie there is what came before, what is happening, and what may happen, hence the time.

At the same time however, eternity, being eternal, encompasses everything. Eternity exists, has always existed, and will continue to exist forever, therefore, in eternity, time is meaningless, and doesn't exist.

One could go on to describe that at higher dimensions, which vibrate incredibly fast, so fast they are immeasurable from this dimension, and in fact have different laws, so what we experience as time, the linear progression, the past-present-future, at the higher level in fact occur simultaneously from the perspective of the higher dimension.

However, unless we experience those things, they are just ideas to us (as is the nature of existential experience), even if they are true on some level.

So as far as we are concerned, as ordinary human beings, in our experience, time exists.

But eventually it wont ;-)

Answer 5

It exists in relation to something else.

A beautiful woman sitting on a man's lap for an hour seems like a brief moment.

Rolling around on broken glass and barbed wire for a minute seems like an eternity.

Clocks speed up and slow down in relation to motion.

Answer 6

Time exists, but how it is perceived and experienced depends on the laws of physics in the locality of the experience.

;-D If humans could create time, I would get more sleep!

Answer 7

"time" is a human term, but what most certainly do exist are causal chains. Think of bowling-the bowler propels the ball, the ball gets ever closer to the pins, and (ideally) the pins fall.
This cant really take place in any other order, and they most certainly cant take place truly simultaneously.. "time" may or may not exist, but what do you call the spaces in between events?

Answer 8

whoa thats a good question. i think in a sense it does. like one time at band camp.... then i think when its like its 11:32 pm i think thats the phenomena. time is well a time not a number.

Answer 9

time exists for humans because without time there would be no growth and without growth there would be no evolution without evolution there would be nothing....

by the way that is not a Darwinism statement...
[evo. as the growth of the species...]

human created i suppose ...but without it there would be no us>>>maybe time created us???

Answer 10

Time exists, but humans have restricted it.