Is time real?

Answer 1

Maybe. Who can say for sure? It's only a human concept, afterall. According to Einstein, it's all relative. Like, he said: "two minutes may not seem like long unless you're sitting on a hot stove." Or words to that effect. Perhaps he just had some relatives visiting and it seemed like a long time. As in the joke "married men don't live longer than single men, it just seems like longer."

Answer 2

Time has long been a major subject of science, philosophy and art. Though dictionaries present some (varied) definitions of time (some of which are presented below), it is difficult to provide an uncontroversial definition because there are widely divergent views about its meaning, and concerns about whether there are any simpler terms with which to define it. Scholars also disagree on whether time itself can be measured or is itself part of the measuring system. To avoid these definitional problems, many fields use an operational definition in which only the units of measurement are defined.

The measurement of time has also occupied scientists and technologists, and was a prime motivation in astronomy. Time is also a matter of significant social importance, having economic value ("time is money") as well as personal value, due to an awareness of the limited time in each day and in our lives. Units of time have been agreed upon to quantify the duration of events and the intervals between them. Regularly recurring events and objects with apparent periodic motion have long served as standards for units of time. Examples are the apparent motion of the sun across the sky, the phases of the moon, and the swing of a pendulum.

Time has historically been closely related with space, most obviously with spacetime in Einstein's general relativity.

Answer 3

time is the concept of a beginning and an end. What we seem to measure time with is a clock measuring the time between the beginning and the end. So to answer your question, the beginning and the end is real so time is real but what we believe as time is an illusion. Time does not move like a clock.

Answer 4

The concept of time is relative, however Human beings needed to set a method that would be accepted wherever you were on earth. Example: a minute has the same value in the US (60 seconds) as it does in India or any where else on earth. The values set up :seconds, minutes,etc. were based on astronomical events but artificially determined values. Time is real in the sense that humans have established numbers that allows humans to mark the passage of events . The numbers that make up time were established arbitrarily .

Answer 5

Time is a real factor in everyone's life. It is not the objective ticking clock that we imagine it to be, though. Think space-time.

Answer 6

Not really, we just use clocks to keep track of the day and to arrange meetings with others by using a specific time. When you think about it there isn't any time, just another day.

Answer 7

This has got to be one of the best questions yet. If it is then I just spent a lot of it thinking about the answer to your question.
I am stumped???? If I had to I would vote yes!

Answer 8

Time as we know it is simply a mere guide for use to determine events in order.jmo

Answer 9

I think first you have to ask yourself, what constitutes real?

Answer 10

i don't know... are the grey hairs in my red hair real??