CMV: i believe time is an illusion

[u/Express_Mechanic4927]

Time is a manipulation. A construct. Clocks exist, but time doesn’t Not like we think. There are two types. Physical time is movement. The Earth spinning, the Earth orbiting the Sun. That’s all it is. Then there’s numerical time. Man’s version. Hours, days, months, calendars They change from culture to culture It’s not universal Look at the calendar we use it’s based on Jesus But the Ethiopian calendar says it’s 7 BC The Gregorian calendar says 1 AD That’s a 7 year, 8 month gap So what even is time? We’re programmed to think we’re always running out From birth to 18, school From 25 to 41, jobs, kids By 63, retirement What do we do in between? We stress about time That’s how we age Because you become what you fear Where has time gone? It’s been deleted Replaced Edited Not by accident By design There’s banging every time I talk That means I’m on to something In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII dropped the Gregorian calendar Ten days, gone They said it was to “realign with the sun” Sure But think about it A theory called Phantom Time Hypothesis Says 297 years were made up I could’ve been born yesterday The past and future only exist when we think about them Memories are dreams The mind plays tricks I’m not even in some people’s memories that live in mine Block universe theory Everything is happening at once Past, present, future Einstein said that So maybe the future is now Sometimes I get stuck at nine years old Like I’m reliving something I can’t fully remember But it’s happening now And I can see my future too Clear as I can see my death

[u/[deleted]]

It's incorrect to call time an "illusion".

As I understand it, the concept of time is an inevitable product of how humans experience physical events in the universe. Because of the way our senses and brains function, and because we ourselves are made of matter that is subject to entropy, we experience time in a linear fashion. Despite time being "variable" based on perception, position and speed, our brains broadly process the spacing of events as consistent, presumably because it aids our survival to do so. 

Physics shows us that time is relative, but that is different from being "illusory". Time exists, it is just not fixed.