Is time an illusion that we create?

Time is something I am never on, usually running out of, don't have, nor even when seeking next, and now is over..

Time is something I recognise through experience.
As to whether it is an illusion, I don't know.

Topic: what is time?

Answer: A magazine?

I explored what Time is once. I even came up with a working understanding that makes sense but you have to be able to cmprehend complex ideas.

Short answer:

Time is the capacity to perceive changing moments of duration in the Universe as a constant flow.

Long answer: (You can stop reading now)



Perception of Time by Relativity

Given that mass affects time duration (increases time relativity), as well as velocity (decreases time relativity), an observer within the Bootes Void would see time slow down due to less mass.
If the observer were moving, time would speed up a bit. Mass is relative to gravity so does gravity affect time? Yes.

In a void could time slow to a stop? If an observer were teleported to the middle of such a void would he sense duration? If not then Time would need to have a mass limit but if he still sensed duration, mass may not be the governing principal. It may be a particle within the mass not mass itself.
We know that higher mass causes higher gravity. Gravity is present and additive with all mass. Perhaps time is present with all mass. The observer in the void is made up of mass, He has gravity and time because of it. He can sense duration because of his own mass but it is minimal compared to the mass of this planet. Does he sense that duration is longer than normal or since everything around him is emptiness with nothing for reference, does he sense normal duration?
Wow, it was tough to type that thought into words!
The Shapley Supercluster is more dense than our own Virgo Supercluster.
Given the affects of Time Dilation due to mass, Time duration is different in that supercluster than in our own. More mass means time increases. Duration of particle decay is longer.
If a duritron exists, it may be 'tidally locked' to mass. Mass is energy that is in another form. Is energy affected by time or gravity? Not electricity, energy?

So, according to measured observations time moves faster in less gravity. This would imply that the theoretical graviton is more powerful than my theoretical duritron.

Using Earth time as a standard reference, time is much slower on the surface of the sun. Does anyone know of a formula to determine how much slower?
I ask this because I am curious if that equation is immutable.
If the equation is standard then time dialation can be predicted for any mass in the Universe including the total mass of the Universe.
If Universe standard time were say, ONE. Earth time may be a dialation factor of 16 billion to one. On Earth we could experience time 16 billion times faster than the Universe.
If the equation is mutable, what factors dictate the mutality? In the great voids between the superclusters where gravity is not significant due to no mass, would that be considerd ONE and the Universe time a negative multiple of mass/gravity? This would dictate that everything in the Universe exists slower than the voids. The Universe itself being the slowest.
At the point of absolute no gravity time stops. No gravitons means no duritrons. At that point time has a value of ZERO. Zero duration means no time.
As humans we have the ability to fathom the past by memories. I argue that the past cannot be traveled to because duration is not reversable. Once you reach zero duration everything stops. Unless I am missing something, zero duration is an absolute like temperature.
If one were to sucessfully navigate a wormhole the only direction you could move in time is forward. Wormholes are part of a singularity of mass. Akin to Black Holes, which are extremely high mass/high gravity. The higher the gravity the slower time progresses. Duration takes longer but still progresses.
You leave Earth in a wormhole, While in the wormhole time slows to the point you sense it stopping. Meanwhile the Earth continues its journey thru space unchanged. You travel to Alpha Centuri and back in the blink of an eye but while you were gone duration still ocurred. Both for you, at a slower rate and for Earth at a normal rate. You do not return before you left.

If my deductions are wrong let me know. If you can devise a way around it - let me know.

A time machine could not operate at a localized location. The time machine would need to affect the entire Universe at once. To travel into the past the time machine would need to un-duration everything that exists. More than that, duration would have to be reversed across the entire Universe at the rates relative to masses.
Any variation of time would twist and become thready. If a duritron and graviton are linked as I suspect, all mass in the Universe would be subjected to forces that would shred reality.

Now, if one could wrap duration in a protective sheath like one or more of the atomic electromotive forces, then maybe it could be done? It might be localized enough to make you an observer in a protective bubble but once you leave the bubble you would be in the duration continuum that you observe.
Even if you could do this, all matter is moving over duration. Not only would your time machine have to traverse time, it must manuver thru space as well. It would take a serious amount of computing power to calculate all the variables.

Just found this...My word Duritron is actually a scientific term but it is called Chronon

They say that "Time is Money". If that is true wouldn't all elderly people be rich?

Yes, Yes we are but not necessarily rich in money.

Good point

yes, just a mathematical value...

The Big Bang Theory is the leading explanation about how the universe began. At its simplest, it talks about the universe as we know it starting with a small singularity, then inflating over the next 13.8 billion years to the cosmos that we know today.

Taken from and see website below.

http://www.space.com/25126-big-bang-theory.html

The Big Bang Theory has nothing to do with the question asked.

Isn't it a song by Pink Floyd?

I disagree, please read the article. Before the Big Bang time did not exist because nothing, at all existed, only after the Big Bang did time start to exist, so it is not an illusion.

A brief history of time, Stephen Hawking. A great read.

Great tune too, then again they all are.

Actually, physicists don't know anything about conditions prior to the Big Bang, because it is impossible for them to investigate that far back.

It is speculation to say that nothing existed prior to the Big Bang.

As for what Time is, along with being a magazine, it is also a measurement of movement. People do the measuring. Hence, Time's existence depends on the existence of people.

I agree, it's all theory, as it says in the article :-

Because current instruments don't allow astronomers to peer back at the universe's birth, much of what we understand about the Big Bang Theory comes from mathematical theory and models. Astronomers can, however, see the "echo" of the expansion through a phenomenon known as the cosmic microwave background.
The first second, and the birth of light...

My understanding is there was nothing before the birth of the universe.

That is a religious concept. What, if anything, existed before the Big Bang is beyond the scope of science.

Anyway, what I said about Time still stands.
People created Time because people created the measurement of movement.
Time is an intangible tool used by people.

D'oh! That is why I am poor. I can't do that level of math.