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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We can observe that things change and that things happen; for example the arms on a clock always seem to be in a different position than our memory tells us they were. In fact, it seems like nothing in our universe is ever constant or ever stands still. “Time” is just the human awareness that everything seems to be in flux, and that it seems to be “one directional” (things don’t change to be like they used to be; everything is always slightly different), and “time” is also how humans place order on this flux (e.g. X happened before Y, but after Z) and also how we measure how much flux has happened.
“Time” as some sort of power or energy like in science fiction probably doesn’t exist. “Time” is just the observation that things change.
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