Also, if time does exist, doesn’t there have to be a definable beginning or end? Otherwise it’s just infinity which to me suggests the absense of time.
I partially read “The Discoverers” by Daniel Boorstin several years ago and he discussed how different societies conceptualized of time and how they kept time. And it has had me wondering ever since. Then I started exploring Zen Buddhism which emphasizes the present moment as the only tangible reality, along with the illusion of the ego, which only furthered my questioning.
EDIT – I am aware that the concept of time is based on the revolution of the Earth and it’s moon. However, that is just how humans conceive of time. That’s not proof of time itself.
EDIT 2 – The explanation of timespace and relativity is the best from an objective point of view. No matter how much I read or watch, it was always a bit hard to grasp but it makes sense in terms of change or entropy. The reality of time being flexible vs the human perception of time being linear and unchangeable gets closer to what I am asking.
EDIT 3 – “Exist” is a tricky word.
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“Time has been called a river that carries forward every thing until it sinks in its waves, but time is not a river and it does not flow. Physical reality is a process and it can be called the river of existence. This river does not need time or any other force beyond itself to “carry” it and to be what it is: a process. Time is not part of that process: it is not an ingredient of physical reality and it does not flow. Time is the artificial bank in relation to which the river of physical reality flows. Time is an element of our language by means of which we speak about physical reality and its change: it is one of the basic elements of the conceptual system by means of which we express our perception and understanding of the physical reality in which we dwell and of which we are part.” Radovan 2011
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262108573_Time_and_the_river_of_existence
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