Why is it that so many people say that time is just a human made concept?

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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?

Maid Angela · Answer

Time appears to be another dimension. You are right that GPS satellites have to have their clocks adjusted as time goes faster the further is it away from a gravity source. Presumably time stands still at the centre of a black hole and therefore we have to consider if prior to the big bang when the whole of the universe was singularity did time actually not exist. I am not sure why this is in the R & S section as it is a factual scientific subject still under investigation and the R & S section is all about myths

Chances68 · Answer

They're using shorthand.  Time is real.  Any measurement of time is a human concept.  Seasons happen, radioactive materials decay, the universe expands, orbits are completed.  Time happens.  But a measure of time is entirely artificial, and is a human derived concept.

skips714 · Answer

You're not very smart , are you ? Time is just another language.

? · Answer

I don't know, maybe they mean our actual time-keeping system, not time itself?

Why is it that so many people say that time is just a human made concept?

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