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Why is it that so many people say that time is just a human made concept?
Presumably completely ignorant of the fact that GPS satellites are programmed on the premise that time is as real and relative a dimension as space, because if they weren't, they'd become inaccurate by several MILES per day?
SKIPS
you're either ignorant of what time is, what a language is, or both.
CHANCES
yes, for the same reason that every measurement ever made is a human made concept. Hence I said time, not clocks or calendars.
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- Maid AngelaLv 78 years ago
Time appears to be another dimension. You are right that GPS satellites have to have their clocks adjusted as time goes faster the further is it away from a gravity source. Presumably time stands still at the centre of a black hole and therefore we have to consider if prior to the big bang when the whole of the universe was singularity did time actually not exist. I am not sure why this is in the R & S section as it is a factual scientific subject still under investigation and the R & S section is all about myths
- Chances68Lv 78 years ago
They're using shorthand. Time is real. Any measurement of time is a human concept. Seasons happen, radioactive materials decay, the universe expands, orbits are completed. Time happens. But a measure of time is entirely artificial, and is a human derived concept.
