Here we go.
If time is irrelevant and a man made concept created based on objects around us (such as the sun and moon and shadows), this would mean THIS (this life, this universe) is not set on a scale or duration of time.
Many of us, well, pretty much all of us, cannot comprehend the non-existence of time, and to say nothing is set on it, blows peoples minds... but that isn't the scary part.
The scary part is that none of us actually know how quickly we are moving through time at any moment, because time has no relative existence, it is but a concept.
Which means, at any point in your life, you could be moving through time at the speed of light, OR slower than a snail -- but you would not know it, because your conscious moves with time, at the same frequency.
Simply, you cannot know your relevance with time as you are always moving along with it, and this also means time scales mean nothing, and at any time you are moving every speed through time/or alternating between a different speed constantly during your conscious life time. But you would never know it.
If time is irrelevant and a man made concept created based on objects around us (such as the sun and moon and shadows), this would mean THIS (this life, this universe) is not set on a scale or duration of time.
Many of us, well, pretty much all of us, cannot comprehend the non-existence of time, and to say nothing is set on it, blows peoples minds... but that isn't the scary part.
The scary part is that none of us actually know how quickly we are moving through time at any moment, because time has no relative existence, it is but a concept.
Which means, at any point in your life, you could be moving through time at the speed of light, OR slower than a snail -- but you would not know it, because your conscious moves with time, at the same frequency.
Simply, you cannot know your relevance with time as you are always moving along with it, and this also means time scales mean nothing, and at any time you are moving every speed through time/or alternating between a different speed constantly during your conscious life time. But you would never know it.
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MEASUREMENTS of time are man-made concepts, the same as spatial measurements in the dimensions we can see. Just like redefining the meter won't make you taller or shorter, redefining the second won't make you live longer or shorter. Time, like space, is a fundamental part of the universe. Time still passed before humans measured it.
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General Relativity has answered that question, but it may not help in a subjective understanding of time. From a scientific viewpoint, time is just a another dimension like length and width and depth. The latter are called spatial dimensions. All dimensions are relative to the observer, including the time. So what you say for time also applies to the spatial dimensions. According to General Relativity, everything is moving through the time dimension at the speed of light. The uniqueness of time is that it can only go in one direction ("arrow of time") while the others can go both ways. This feature of time does not result from the actual physical theories, but is an observed fact. For some time, this has been a problem in theoretical physics, and only recently have there been plausible explanations (relating to the second law of thermodynamics).