Is there such a thing as time except our conception of it? SURELY NOT?

Answer 1

'Fraid not. Time can be bent like most things. Very simply Einstein says that time is relative to the speed of light and the mass of an object.
Light can be bent around the sun. As the speed of light is constant time must have changed. A bit too simplistic but it is called the theory of relativity.

Answer 2

one of the questions worth answering. as far as i am concerned time is there time exists. the proportion and units of it is what troubles me. there is an insect that lives 24 hours (dragonfly). imagine it considers time. on the other hand the sec and its derivatives is a very tricky unit. it suits as but then again we have such a short time in earth and in evolving science.
what a day would meant to a dying sick man and what to a prisoner.???
there is a philosophical and scientific approach on the subject. but time is, or may i say was there. for me there is only the past. for years i have been thinking of it....
the present is gone when you think it it is already past, tha present to the future is actually the past.....and without the past there is no future.. therefore we should consider all of our being like the first light beam that gave space and time meannig and existance. we sure know the our past dids but every moment we define some more.

Answer 3

Our concept of time is flawed. There is no such thing as our linear idea of time, it is a construct designed to explain a perceived sequence of events.

Answer 4

Time is the fourth dimension outside length, breath and width in physics, time is a contant except as per Einteins theroy of relativity. we only put names to time so that we can easily understand it ie: senconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years eons etc. Even if we did not label the moment of time it would still be a constant in our lives with the revolutions of the sun.

Answer 5

Excellent question, and one nobody is really in any position to answer. We perceive time and can measure it, and that, more than anything, is why it is real to us. But we can't define it, can't control it and can't really understand it. It is very possible that it is just a construct our minds have created.

There is a pop science book on the market by, I think, Julian Barbour, asking exactly that question and coming to the same conclusion as you.

Answer 6

We assume time exists because we remember things that have happened in the past. However, the past no longer exists, it is just a stored memory of the past that we remember. We assume that tomorrow will come based on past experience that yesterday we expected a tomorrow and today we rember that their was a yesterday that we expected a tomorrow, hence time must exist and must be directional. So, its actually impossible to explain time except by describing our conception of it, hence is it all in our minds? Yes.

Answer 7

The answer is abstract. Everything we view or rationalise is our conception.
The planets are in a set orbit and rotate at a set period. Therefore a timed period exists. It is that we have just applied mathematics against it to communicte with each other.

Answer 8

Time is just a man-made unit to measure the passing of events.

Answer 9

time has to exist, it's just the separation of events. everything that happens is spaced out and doesn't all happen at once. time is relative, and can change according to our perceptions, and the units are more or less arbitrary, but time itself must be real.

Answer 10

I've always believed time is relative. Everyone has their own experience of Time. It's just something mankind invented and needed to make life easier.