Does time really exist?

Answer 1

no time stands still for me

Answer 2

Kinda vague question. Does Santa Claus exist, or the Boogeyman? If they did NOT exist, people would ask, what the hell is a Santa Claus or Boogeyman, so in some sense, the answer is yes.

'Time' is a measurement. Einstein postulated that time is affected by gravity and NASA experiments seem to bear that out. For people who live at high altitudes, time passes every so slightly slower than for people at sea level.

The Apollo 11 astronauts actually arrived back on Earth 3 seconds earlier than they would have 'been', had they never left.

Remember that show 'Star Trek'? If Captain Kirk had a twin brother who'd stayed behind, at the end of the Enterprise's 5-year mission, Kirk would have aged 5 years, but his brother would have aged 50 years.

Since gravity affects time, then time is not absolute. It is a measurement for comparing two or more items when such items are within the same measurement medium.

So, the answer is yes. It exists. Just not as you think of it.
"It's Life, Jim, but not as we know it."

Answer 3

Its nature is a bit debatable, but yes it exists in some contexts. You should as this in the science section.

Edit:
At extermely small spaces like at the movement of electrons, time appears not to exist.

Answer 4

I think this is one of the most misunderstood concepts ever. Who knows really? How do you know you're not dreaming right now, and if you were, when you wake up, would you really be waking up? Or would you maybe just be falling to sleep? How do we know every part and every memory of our lives never happened? Maybe no one really exists maybe we're just all figments of our imaginations. Maybe twenty years from now has allready happened, and we're all really laying on a bed in a hospital dreaming of what our lives were like when we were younger.... ahh remember that day i was sitting in front of my computer answering questions all night... who knows really, I find myself thinking about these things often. Scary I think.

Answer 5

Define the true meaning of time...is time not man made, or at least the title of it. IS there a reason for time at all....we already have seasons and the sun and moon to go by why do I need a watch to tell me that I should be somewhere that nrmally I don't really want to be at but for some odd reason I am suppose to be there.

Answer 6

Einstein demonstrated that ABSOLUTE time does not exist. The perception of time exists but is different for different observers and even simultaneity may be different. Causality, however, is retained so that, if one thing causes another, it will not be perceived to occur after the thing it causes.

Answer 7

Time can be defined as the duration period of something in motion perceived from a relative reference frame. On the elementary level, a photon moving through space does not move through time, since all of its motion through time is diverted by its motion through space at the cosmic speed limit -- lightspeed. But in our reference frame, we posit that we are in 4 dimensional space, time being one of the dimensons. Spacetime, as Albert Einstein called it. This is no mere play of words. Spacetime is very real and an essential element in relatavistic calculations. But common sense will suffice here: The passage of time is easily shown by the second hand of a clock measuring out equal seconds of time, building minutes and hours.

Answer 8

Actually time is an illusion. Time is what we call the span between two events and even the duration of such events. In reality, God and the heavenly host live outside of time since it does not affect them in any way. We tend to age and, so, call our aging "the passage of time."
Mr. M. on "time."

Answer 9

Yep

Answer 10

Time not only 'exists' it is everything that ever is and ever was and ever will be. Time is everything, time is life.

Answer 11

Yes.