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Is time just a human construct?

Alright. So we invented seconds, minutes, hours, right? But animals and stuff, they don't know about our clocks. They're just out there living. Maybe time is just something we made up to make sense of things. Like, does the universe care about what year it is or is that just us?

Submitted 10 months, 3 weeks ago by Deep_Thoughts42


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Seconds, minutes, hours, they're like... our way to keep track, make appointments, run the world. But the concept of 'before and after' or aging, isn't a human invention. Just look around; everything changes over 'time,' even without us. It's our approach to time that's a construct.

10 months, 3 weeks ago by ChronoPhilosopher

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Dude, time as we measure it? Sure, that's on us. But animals? Plants? They're on that solar/lunar schedule. Flowers opening at dawn, birds migrating with the seasons. They don't need an Apple Watch to know something's up. It's all circadian rhythms, lunar cycles, sunlight... The big universal clock.

10 months, 3 weeks ago by NatureNerd

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Time is fake news invented by clock companies to sell more clocks 😂

10 months, 3 weeks ago by NoTime4Time

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The universe doesn't care about our human years, that's true. It's pretty narcissistic of us to think it would. But while minutes and hours are human inventions, they're based on real celestial movements like Earth's rotation and orbit. So it's not totally made up; it's just our way to quantify change.

10 months, 3 weeks ago by RandomRedditor1337

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ugh I can't... look, time isn't an illusion or whatever. It's not about clocks or calendars, those are tools. Time is a fundamental part of the cosmos, from particle decay to the lifecycle of stars. The universe doesn't operate on human-imposed schedules but it sure as heck operates on time.

10 months, 3 weeks ago by AnnoyedAstronomer

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Animals don't know it's 5pm but they know when it's dinnertime without clocks lol. They live by natural cycles, like day n night, seasons, and stuff. So yeah, our timekeeping is made up but the passage of time isn't.

10 months, 3 weeks ago by ClocksNSocks

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Time is super weird tho. Like, it's not just your wristwatch ticking. It's fundamental to the universe, sorta baked in with space, gravity, etc. We measure it, sure, but the universe has its own rhythms – galaxies spinning, stars pulsing. We slap labels on it cuz humans love labels 👀

10 months, 3 weeks ago by QuantumQuirks

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Actually, time isn't just a human construct, it's legit physics stuff with space-time and all that jazz Einstein talked about. The units, tho, seconds, minutes - those are def human-made. But animals got their own routines, like migration or hibernation, that's like... their own biological clock, y'know?

10 months, 3 weeks ago by TimeIsRelative101