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Pink¥
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Pink¥ asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 1 decade ago

Was time invented or discovered?

Isnt it all just an illusion anyway?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Time is a concept, one invented. It doesn't exist without someone to observe it, and is not a natural entity so time was not discovered. It's a difficult thing to choose a word for- language is so often inadequate.

    Time was created entirely by man. The only actual measure of time we have is defined by the rising/setting of the sun, which in it's turn depends entirely on our perspective on depending on where we are on Earth.

    So essentially, time is completely an illusion. It's just because humans compulsively organise things so we can feel in control of our otherwise confusing lives- the same reason we practise religion and the like.

    i hope this makes sense, and that it helps!

  • Skatta
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    it was discovered and named. naming a tree tree doesn't invent the tree it just gives it a name, naming an hour hour didn't invent hours it just named them. but actually time is much more complicated than that. it is related to your velocity. without motion there can be no time and vice versa, just like yo ucan't have your dvd on pause, nothing moving, yet progressing in time on the DVD. real life is just like that, if the universe is on pause, there is no time and no motion. really, to understand time well you need to look at how it is described by physicists like Einstein.

    it is and isn't an illusion, it depends on what you decide the definition of time is. some defintions time woudl be an illusion, some it wouldn't, and some it would be a mixture of both.

    but in terms of sense of human beings, it is certainly an illusion as is true about all our senses, taste feeling, sight and sound, are all inventions of the human mind, they don't exist in the natural world, only because beings with those senses exist. light does not have color, your brain and eyes ascribe color to it, just like a heat sensitive camera does for heat. so the way we perceive time is an illusion, the way we perceive everything is.

  • 1 decade ago

    its more discovered and illusion. I mean the whole year could be called something else instead of 28/29 days in Febuary. I dont think anyone really cares if theres a leap year, in some places, theres no such thing

  • ?
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Time has always been and always will be. All living times use time.

    Seconds, Minutes, Hours, Days, Weeks, Months, Years are man made ways of measuring time and there are different versions and creators for each. You have the 12 hour clock and the 24 hours clock. You have the Julian calendar and Chinese calendar and Jewish calandar.

    Each can be researched to how it was created.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Yeah, a major illusion. Humans split the day into 24 parts, those into 60 parts, etc. It's weird when you think about it.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    If you consider that man is the originator of all intelligent thought about the universe then time was discovered as a process of life. If he you believe the universe was created then so was time.

  • 5 years ago

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  • 1 decade ago

    Time is created with universe.

    It is like a progress report to record the changes in the universe.

    Human discovered it and put name to this progress report to track the changes.

  • 1 decade ago

    It was more or less invented, due to a need for people to become more advanced in the line of life.

  • 1 decade ago

    By the same being who invented Eternity

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