if there is no beginning and no end to TIME then who came up with the concept of time as we know it today?

Answer 1

The Babylonians established many of the units and divisions based on the rotation of the earth. This is where 60 in seconds and minutes comes from, and 360 (60x60) on a compass dial.

Answer 2

The measurement of time has a very long history, dating back to the first records of human civilization, archeological evidence suggests that the concept of time evolved no further than ordinary human needs. The Cro-Magnons recorded the phases of the Moon some 30,000 years ago--but the first minutes were counted accurately only 400 years ago. . . .
Take a look at the site below. It gives an excellent "timeline" for the marking of time and the setting of the seconds, minutes, hours, etc.....

Answer 3

It is not just a human concept in the sense that we create a notion of time through the cataloging of external events, rather it is simply the way the mind works. It is the nature of mankinds thinking apparatus to impose a rational order upon the chaos with which it is bombarded and this is what we refer to as time

Answer 4

Time is non existent. As in, I can't grab it, stick it in a box, wrap it up and give it away. Time is more like an idea. I saw the sun rising this morning. Then I saw the sun setting this evening. Therefore, one event happened before the other, so time passed. Time as we know it today is scrutinised in the most minute detail. By the events that take place in sub-atomic particles. (smaller than atom sized).

Professor Stephen W. Hawking does a good job in describing it, in laymans terms, in his book, 'A Brief History of Time.'

Answer 5

Time is a concept, not a tangable object. The passage of it was no doubt noted by our early ancestors (as day turned into night, then day again) who eventually figured out a way to measure it.
Off our planet, our measurement is void and useless.

Answer 6

God invented time to keep everything happening all at once.

Actually, when we compare two or more events, like the sun at two different positions in the sky, the distance between the events is called time. Time is a perception. If everything stood still, there would be no time. So relative motion creates the perception of time, and we gage our activities by an arbitrary standard, like a minute or hour, or even a second which is the distance between the events of two heartbeats.

Answer 7

Peter is correct regarding modern temporal ennumeration.

But the 'concept' of time? Any species having any sort of awareness is aware of time. It's like being aware of distance, I.e. the intuitive understanding begins way before it's naming or numbering.

Answer 8

This happened and that happened. I have two memories, there must be a web of connection. Let me call it time.

There are limits to the stretch of subjectivity put upon us by the chemical reactions that are our life. Since they eventually kill us, time ceases until the next cycle upturn.

Answer 9

Time and space are inseparable. Time is simple the measurement of movement; the distance between objects. The quicker we are able to travel between point A and point B, time becomes less relevant.........Perhaps in the ultimate reality we can be in more than one place at a time or at once in the same place at different times; which are metaphors for eternity......Anyways, in the material universe time appears to be linear, but it is really cyclic.

Answer 10

I dont believe in no beginning an no end .. The way i view it is the big bang was the beginning an when ever us humans have destoryed our planet then that will be the end.