Reference to question "Time"?

Question

"Time" as we call it does not exist and only a reference to keep happenings separate. Therefore is everything the same "instant"?

"If"...there were no cycles of day and night, daylight continually never changing from beginging to present. All life and happenings would share the same instant. Just because life begins and ends does not establish time of any frame. Agree or no?

Point of "reference" exist only because mankind developed a measurement when "we" understood our personal existance begin and end.

"Time" relative to motion, because of motion we relate that to time? I believe the frailty of humankind has established this "sense" of time.

Answer 1

time is just something humans have created to keep themselves organized, it just a measurement... but it does not exist... things just.... happen

Answer 2

The answer would be no.

For instance if the h2o molecule I just ingested fell from the sky some 200 yrs ago that molecule would share the same instant, for it would hold a single mass but be present in two separate places.
How could a molecule have two histories but only one present? That would mean that time would be as a funnel, having different pasts but only one future. There for we would know with the utmost certainty of the future but not the past let alone the present.
Confusing? Rightfully so, thats why we invented time.

Answer 3

Time is a measurement in the same way that length and height are measurements. So you could say that length and height don't physically exist, but there is definately a distance between two things that do exist.

So it really depends on what you like to define as 'existence'. Time exists only as a measurement, not as a physical entity.

Answer 4

time does exist, we can see the effects of time through changes. Everything changes over time. Evolution for instance. I recall reading Peter Lynds has a theory about time and motion that is a constant ...Einstein says time is relative to motion; that sounds a bit better!

Answer 5

no because the term instant is also just a reference to distinguish a measure of time. the same is true of the word everything its just a reference used to include.

Answer 6

Time does exist. It is a dimension.

If you talk over the radio with someone on Mars it takes 16+ minutes to get a response due to a time lag.

If Einstein is correct and you are 18 and your mother is 36 and she takes a trip around Alpha Centauri at just under half the speed of light when she returnes you are 38 and she is 37.

This establishes the reality of time.

Answer 7

Time doesn't exist but it is used to keep people organized from their different acitivities. But everything isn't the sme instant.

Answer 8

Time is a measure of change.
Hence for a diamond, time is very slow. For human, time is based on meteorological changes.
If everybody stops changing, then time stops.
Problem arises because we cannot get the absolute frame of reference for time.

Answer 9

Time is merely a sequence of events that occur on a linear plane and are organized by intervals of light and dark.


kidding. i have no idea what the f*ck im talking about, but it sure as hell is a trip to think about, aint it?

i dont think everything is instant, i think, truly, that the concept of time-keeping is indeed human, but actual time (in noun form) exists entirely.

Answer 10

See everything follows time,,
Expansion of universe, evolution of stars, evolution of man everything follows time. They are not happened in an "instant"

Answer 11

If "a reference to keep happenings separate" exists, and if time is that reference, then time exists.