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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?

Update:

Pure atheist, people with an understanding of general and special relativity did, and they managed to make an incredibly accurate navigation system with it, so the proof is well and truly in the pudding.

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    All I can come up with is that such entities are ignorant and gullible.

    Some preacher probably alluded to something accidentally and found that really stupid people thought he was onto something so he wondered how far he could push it.

    Of course if you can be convinced there an imaginary man swooping the ether doing really shiitty mayhem on innocent children... you can believe anything.

    It's sad... seeing so many people still bedevilled, bewildered, bewitched and beset by primitive, superstitious nonsense that slithered outa the deserts of the Middle East soooo long ago.

    ~

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    If the Earth blew up and there were no humans to perceive any passage of time...would time still exist?

    Who told the computers that time is real and relative?

    Just wondering...

  • Mr-Kay
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    You have a point.

    I guess any human understanding and explanation has some level of " human concept" just a mental thing really.

  • Mark
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    It is attributing meaning to the passage of time that is the thing that is a human concept.

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  • 8 years ago

    Humans are not the only animal that can tell time.

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