Is time the root of everything? or at least part of it

Or is it just a measure?If there wasn't time, then can't nothing happen?
Things are able to happen because time passes

(if possible tell me your age so I can compare the intelligence of the answer to the age
& see at what time in their life people start asking questions like this)

"time is Nature's way o prevent all events to happen at once" Einstein

See if you can figure out what time is from this.

If you can't, post again.

Depends on what is time for you. Before the "marriage" of space and time (by scientists, Einstein etc.), time is just a mere "counting", but when scientists alter it's simple meaning to supposedly "simplify" (unify) scientific explanations of several natural phenomena, it becomes a property (as oppose to quantity). But I'm sure, man invented the word "TIME" as a measurement of duration, but later is altered and "fused" with space (by scientists) and became a "space/time" which is a property of the universe and not anymore a mere measurement of duration of events.