things that yhave been discovered or invented by people can be destroyed. Can somebody destroy the time?
2007-02-17 06:13:26 · 9 answers · asked by turbo speak engine ver. 12 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Time is and invention of the humans, sure.
Because time is related to the rotation of the Planet Earth and the orbit around the sun the only way to destroy "time" is destroying the civilization that invented it.
2007-02-17 06:20:53 · answer #1 · answered by Lost. at. Sea. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can say people invented a way to measure time or even, people discovered a way to measure time. But, I don't think you can say that people invented or discovered time, itself.
If you say that people invented time, this implies that time did not exist before humans. This is a contradiction because we know that some things happened before other things (time) although we were not around. (such as fossils buried at different levels.. or carbon dating)
If you say that people discovered time, this implies that at some point, people noticed/observed/learned of time and it was not noticed before. Say person A discovered time. I'm sure that A can remember events occuring at childhood, adolescence, and adulthood and place these events in sequential order before "discovering" time. (true--this isn't really a proof, though) But, to order things sequentially, you must understand that time passes (even though you may not have a system for measuring it, or a word for it).. Therefore, I don't think that "discover" is the right word either.
That is like saying we discovered the third spatial dimension. We didn't--although we may have named it or distinguished it from 1 and 2 dimensions.
2007-02-17 14:59:22 · answer #2 · answered by Laura Joy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time is space and space is matter and matter is energy -- lotsa luck doing away with it.
In reply to the above answer: although time that could not be measured would not exist, change cannot exist without time and therefore, if you admit change exists you must concede that time does as well.
Why does a simple concept always have to become so complicated?
2007-02-17 14:31:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your question is frivolous.
Time, as most know it, is a theoretical construct; hence, it can be dispensed with, if we choose. However, most people are hooked on it, one way or another, for a lot of good and not-so-good reasons.
In absolute terms, however, (think cosmological), time probably does not exist. Why should it? Change exists, yes. But, change cannot be equated directly with any concept of measuring or monitoring time.
2007-02-17 14:30:11 · answer #4 · answered by tlc 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Time wasn't invented by humans....they just gave it limits...seconds, minutes, hours, etc. The way we count time now, our calendar for instance, has gone through many revisions....so, yes, humans can "destroy" their concept of time, but not time itself.
2007-02-17 14:34:45 · answer #5 · answered by aidan402 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Can you destroy what does not really exist?
Love and blessings Don
2007-02-17 14:53:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
based on the rising and setting of the sun and moon.
2007-02-17 15:36:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Discovered, and organized it.
2007-02-17 14:51:58 · answer #8 · answered by Barbara V 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
neither it has an origin nor an end.
2007-02-18 07:35:28 · answer #9 · answered by hari prasad 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋