Time.......?

Question

What is time, does it really exist? Or is it just humans trying to create order out of chaos? Are our lives based on something that actually doesn't exist?

Answer 1

There are two distinct views on the meaning of time. One view is that time is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a dimension in which events occur in sequence, and time itself is something that can be measured. This is the realist's view, to which Sir Isaac Newton subscribed.

A contrasting view is that time is part of the fundamental intellectual structure (together with space and number) within which we sequence events, quantify the duration of events and the intervals between them, and compare the motions of objects. In this view, time does not refer to any kind of entity that "flows", that objects "move through", or that is a "container" for events. This view is in the tradition of Gottfried Leibniz and Immanuel Kant, in which time, rather than being an objective thing to be measured, is part of the mental measuring system.
The question, perhaps overly simplified and allowing for no middle ground, is thus: is time a "real thing" that is "all around us", or is it nothing more than a way of speaking about and measuring events?

From "Time" on Wikipedia

Answer 2

time is a manifestation of reality. It exists, as does length, width, and height, in our world of ordinary percieved dimensions. Dimensions beyond our perception exist, if in our imaginations if not in reality. Recently a mathmatical construct known as E8 was mathmatically mapped. This construct has over 200 dimensions. Talk about freaking incomprehensible to the human mind

Answer 3

As all dimensions could be said to be a shadow of the one higher Time (the 4th dimension) IS the shadow of the 5th. it is as if each of us were a great being standing outside of time and casting its 'shadow' (which is our life-force or spiritual-light) into time and upon us... So time... though appearing as a planets durational orbit and/or rotation is actualy a School of the Spirit which cycle's in and out of existance. Time is like the oxygen molecules in spiraling, draining water... it is interwoven into the fabric.

Answer 4

Time is very real. The Sun rises at one time and sets at another and nothing humans do or can do will change that. Clocks are a human invention, but they do not create time, they just measure it, like a thermometer measures temperature but does not cause heat or cold.

Answer 5

Time does indeed exist, it is no human invention, we only invented a way to measure it.
If you study Relativity you will see the effects of time and space and how you can interchange the two.

Answer 6

If time didn't exist, humans would never have come about. Because there would be no order to "cause and effect".

Answer 7

Time does exist, yes. It exists as much as space does.

Experiments have been done that prove that time not only exists, but can be dilated.

Answer 8

yes, time is real. simply it is the fourth dimension in our world. if time did not exist we will be a stand still picture. time is part of space and the mix of time and space is what allow the vast expansion of the universe.

Answer 9

time is a real thing a dimension

jsut like the other 3 we know off, of the 11 that makae up the

the universe

Answer 10

If time didn't exist then there could be no movement, the entire universe would be static, like a picture. Thanks to time-space, we have a movie that flows consistently, so that we may experience change!