Is time real or a human creation?

Question

So tell me what you think. Does time exist outside of our minds? If there is an afterlife does time pass the same way as it does here?

Answer 1

Time is a idea that has been harnessed by humans and used to develope the civilization we live in. It is also a dimension. But time is not the same in all places in the cosmos so we can't say it is an absolute constant. Days on Mars are not the same as on Earth. Nor are the years the same. Different standards of measurement.

Some will say we can judge things by the light year. Perhaps. But light bends around gravity so we can't measure exact distances from point A to point B. And wouldn't it be safe to say that massive gravitational fields may in fact slow down or speed up the velocity of light? If a black hole has such massive gravity that nothing escapes - not even light - then light, too, is not a constant in the universe. So using light speed to assert time is not a certainty either.

Time is relevant to the location of the entity. Nothing more.

Answer 2

Time is a relative concept because our understanding of it is based on our -probably limited- perception of reality.

Time is however very real, and is the 4th dimention to the universe we live in. Time does indeed exist out of our minds, otherwise we would see the results everytime we learned a new concept. Did trees live and die before you knew what they were as a child? Yes. If time is just a human creation, it should be able to be undone as well since nothing we have ever created lasts infinitely.

As far as the passage of time in the afterlife, IF there is one, that's a whole other can of worms because we have no way of knowing what the afterlife is like, IF there is indeed an afterlife, which religion if any, it is related to, and we don't know if this place exists in our space or somewhere else completely.

Answer 3

Time is real and it is meant for human beings who are actors in a stage drama.They have to come at a particular moment to play their part and leave at a predecided moment.

When the whole system dies off, if it ever happens, then the time will stop. The existing system has a beginning and an end, therefore the time is real here.

The new system that will be born after the end of the present system, will have a beginning and no end. It will be timeless. It will have a start but no end

The concept of heaven and hell is based on this philosophy. When time is there you will be tested, when there is no time you will be rewarded

Answer 4

if somone steps to the left and then steps back to the right, time has passed, we invented a way to calculate it, but there will always be time no matter what even in an afterlife. you can not say that those 2 steps happend at the same time nor can u say that no time has passed when at one moment i was on the left and now im on the right, weather its calculated and kept on record or not there will always be time. and its funny to cause when i asked a question about if god has always existed and the earth is no where near as old as "always existed" what did god do for so damn long, some jack@ss said well there is no time before us, of course there is time its like fire we did not invent fire we only discovered it, there will always be time we just found a way to keep record of it

Answer 5

Nobody can know anything about the afterlife, so that answers that.

To answer your other question, are politics real? Is war real? If your mortgage real? Is the money in your pocket real? Is Christianity real?

The answer to all of these is "yes". Each is a part of our reality. If you are asking if time requires human beings to exist in order to define it, then no, absolutely not. The reason we know this is that the earth existed well before humanity started. So time existed then too. Time, in it's simplest definition is measured by a minimum of two seperate events. Events occur all the time outside of any human perception. So yeah, time is real, as are human creations.

Answer 6

A very interesting question, I am reading Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" so I will get back to you when I have finished it (only just started). I think that time is the fourth dimension and humans measure time in a linear way that is convenient to us but actually abstract from the reality of time as time is not linear.

This is interesting:

http://members.aol.com/rslts/linear.html

Answer 7

Time is an abstraction. It is our way of measuring the constants of physcial change.

In eternity there is no physical substance, therefore, time is an impossibility in that state of existence. Or put it another way, eternity is by definition non-temporal and eternal things non-physical: time only became a reality with the creation of matter.

Answer 8

Time is real its measurement is a human creation.

We can only measure time as we know it in our dimension, as the "afterlife" has yet to be proved to exist we have no idea of time in its theoretical dimension

Answer 9

time exists.. it passes, evidence is people growing old and dying etc, etc.

TRACKING of time is human invention. time exists for animals but they don't care what time it is.

if there is an afterlife i don't think time matters at all. since most people believe that afterlife is eternity, time passing doesn't matter in eternity ... because its eternity.

(i don't believe what most people believe, for the record)

Answer 10

time is an illusion mankind foisted upon itself thinking that more control may come of it.the Julian calendar was one of the greatest setbacks for humanity.our lives are spent trying to be on time instead of just being the moment.it is well documented that humans had the capability to live hundreds of years or longer but since the Julian calendar our lives have only shortened and we now think that it is normal.i do not i choose to live each moment in the moment and in that sense the moment is forever it doesn't look backwards or forward it just......IS