@casualconversation l’ve always known that time is an artificial construct ever since I was told to sit down to study. As l grew up, l saw mechanical clocks getting replaced by battery clocks. Until l realised that the clock is actually being run from a centralised node, no matter where you’re located.
What l’m realising now is that, the calendar too is being constructed from a centralised network, whether it’s the question of the World Cup or a war.
I just shared my rambling with you all.
What’s your thoughts/perspective/observation on this ???
There’s a difference between time and our measurements of time. The core concept of time, as in the rate of change of anything, isn’t an artificial concept. But the units we use to measure time are artificial.
The very idea of measuring the rates of things was invented by humans. In the natural world, things just are. Things just happen, and they don’t mean anything. Humans were the ones who came along and said “this is a second, it’s our SI unit, and now we can measure the change that happens in one second”. The natural world never divided spacetime into seconds.