Is time really a made up concept? ?
For example we dream something that we thinks takes let's say four hours but in reality it actually takes like 4 seconds. Why is time so relative? If your really focused on something say talking on the phone time zooms by but if your waiting for something time crawls at almost a stand still? So if time isn't actually a concrete thing how we perceive the world may be flawed or incorrect? Why is time so strange?
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- Why pick on time? The other three dimensions are just as relative. Sometimes something is far, sometimes the same distance is near. Big is small, and small is big. Time is simply another dimension subject to the same relative interpretations as any other dimension.
Time in the sense of minutes, hours, days and so forth is an instrument of measurement made by man. When on the phone we have no expectations of time, unless its some one you'd rather not talk with of course. Our expectation causes us to measure time when we are awaiting something. We have a need for this to be met.
In the natural world time is simply change without expectation. The seasons come and go. The trees lose leaves, some times earlier than at others, as the season changes. Philosophically speaking, the View we have of the world is indeed flawed. We place ourselves importantly above all and on the whole, believe all acts within existence are indeed for mankind. The reality is though, in time or otherwise, the universe will undoubtedly unfold as it should.
Time measurements are arbitrary, seconds and minutes could easily be replaced with a unit such as heartbeats. Time is not "made up" but it isn't what most people assume it is, which is a constant value throughout the universe. The truth is that different things CAN experience different time rates, but this is largely complicated. If you care to learn more google "time dilation". And if you get more interested try to read about quantum physics.
Time is a theoretical framework of analysis and is always measured by an arbitrary system. However, this system is constant; it's your perception which changes. The system isn't relative: it is fixed. On the other hand, there is a temporally defined dimension that is empirically and theoretically demonstrable and that's real; had we never used anything to measure it, it would still have been there.
Time is not "made up", it's just not absolute. It's relative. Space and time are relative. I think Einstein said something about that. So the perception of them is subject to enormous variation, depending upon the condition of the experiencer.
The only thing that makes time relative is moving. It becomes measureable as you aproach the speed of light. Our perception of time changes with how interested in something we are.
I'll make up my mind to answer this tomorrow.
Can't wait anymore because I'm perceiving time to be flying.
no it is not