Is time real or an illusion?

For an experiential view of the illusory nature of time, see these short Youtubes in the video series "Time Out!":
www.Youtube.com/PeterDziuban

we know time exists but the real question is: WHAT IS IT??? try answering this

time is real because your not dead yet.

Physical time is run of clocks in a timeless space.
"Past-present-future" is a mind frame through which we experience run of clocks and all other material change in timeless space.
see more in my article here
http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=PHESEM000023000002000330000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes&ref=no

Yours Sincerely, Amrit Sorli

Time is made up. It is only perceived from three key aspects. Realization, Consciousness, and Motion. We only use time as a measurement. If you see it is seven o' clock and later see its nine o' clock, did two hours pass by? Or did you render the realization of consciousness and motion. For instance, if a man has a coma for two years and wakes up; you can tell him that he was in a coma for two days and he would probably believe you. This is because he did not render Realization, Consciousness and Motion because he was in a coma.

Time exists for us because we understand that there is a imminent end to all things.
Being conscious of this forces us to use, live and think around time, I feel. 8) (what was we on about?) lol
( YES. As i use a hammer to build the house, i use time to choose when best to do it.) Both tools of human consciousness.

surely time is just a label so that we can communicate our interpretation of something that is, was, or is going to happen in the physical world. The label of time is just an expression so that we as a race can communicate effectively. things will happen in the physical universe regardless of whether the human race exists in it or not, the only difference is that humans will label these events and place them into the order in which they occurred and to make these events easier to catalogue and place the label of time was created as a point or points of reference so that people could say...."oh yes i have dentist next Wednesday" .....The word and by assocciation the concept of time is really just a label so that any person can relate a sequence of events or future events to another person in a logical way.

Time exists because we use it...It was invented. But Does the Universe have an Awareness Of Time. To Suggest that Time is Real is to also suggest that there are larger things at work in Creation... Imagine this Paradox.. Your dreaming a dream of the future but you dont know its the future until you witness it coming true, but you realised that the dream you were having was of someones future and you were just remotely viewing it through the dream... You notice the Dream is happening for real, and you know its that person and not you.. If you stood infront of the person and send yourself a message so you could change something in the past, would you be able to allow the dream to come true... Time does not seem to have rules, What if traveling through time requires the understanding that time has no boundries and thus the past present and furture exist as one... Im confusing you i know, but if I told you staight out you would not be able to find the conlusion for these words by your own experince.... Time exists because someone invented it... But does the Universe Know Time Exists.

sorry for my poor english,,, but when you get hungry, in every second you feel a harder pian in your stomach, and you will fear about the 2 minutes later,,, and that easy you will belive in Time and future,,,

Events exist and create a perception of "time" passing.
eliminate the event, and the perception of "time" passing becomes irrelevant. It becomes forever present.
"no time like the present" Maybe that means more that we know.

Surely we only know we exist because time itself also exists. But actually only the present exists, and only as we experience it, and so reference to time can only be made by way of experience. If nothing sentinent were around to experience time then it wouldn't exist. It's a bit like the question: if a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it does it make a noise? Except in the case of time then no, time does not exist if its flow through a continual present is not experienced by reference to a future-present-past continuum. Um...

I was just sitting here thinking about this when I blogged and strangely, I come on to this site and what do I find? I doubt coincidence.

My blog on this topic:

http://jonspade.blogspot.com/2009/10/on-lighter-note.html

Time is not an illusion. Space and time are a single continuum. One cannot exist without the other. Time travels at different speeds depending on where you go in the universe. I used to think of time as being just a concept but it is actually more of a physical dimension that actually exists. If einstein said it, it must be true!

I can't believe scientist are wasting their time with this. If time is an illusion, what a coincidence that time seems to predict the suns pattern, as well as all of astrology. The only illusion of time is the way we perceive it... ie. seconds, minutes etc. Those all being man-made measurements of what we refer to as time. If time is an illusion then so is speed. Is speed an illusion to now? Are we not traveling through space, rather space is travelling to us? Come on, sometimes I think scientists are a bunch of kids tripping on acid.

I beleive that time is simply movement, or at least time as we know it is simply movement. by guaging something moving and thereby changing we aver that time is passing'.

Consider if everything remained at absolute zero and so not even an electron is moving, if we can not see any change we can not perceive time as moving at all, and then surely time as well as everything else is quite figuratively standing still.

Considering passage of time as a measure of movement rather than a psychological phenomenon takes time away from being simply a man-made construct/experience to a physical phenomenon.

CN

Hmmmm, I understood the question but I got lost on that answer!

To me, time is a man-made concept invented to give understanding to the 'then, now and future' of his existence. Without mankind, I think it is safe to say there would be no time as it would not have been invented. I further believe that outside of this planet and away from the influence of mankind, time really does not exist at all.

To us, the parameter that we have chosen to describe how fast we think light travels equals the limit of understanding our invented concept of time and distance.

In reality, assuming that man had never been invented, these parameters and limits would not actually exist.

But he was and he invented such parameters and limits to try, perhaps rather badly, to explain and understand what he sees about him.

Food for thought?