Time=Illusion?

[Danny.Robertson]

OK, so this will sound weird but if you got rid of all clocks and stopped the earth from revolving (physically impossible I know) would time exist or not? Could time be something we, as humans, have designed I mean Caesar created the leap year so there is a possibility that the longest time ago, a singular person had an idea and invented... TIME.

[huginnmuninn]

unless every atom and every sub-atomic particle stopped moving then no. As long as something can happen in the future and something happened in the past it will exist.

[FreeFall]

Time is indeed an invention of man, but even without us it would exist.
Things get old, things die, things are born, things change. That is time.

So just because there's no clocks and the earth stopped rotation, things would continue on and so would time.

[Gigablue]

Time is a dimension present in the universe. It would continue to exist with or without measurement by humans. If we stopped measuring special dimensions, they wouldn't cease to exist, neither would time. I also don't think time is a human invention. The idea of quantifying time might be a human construct, but time itself has existed since the big bang.

[dontfiguremeout]

Hmm a good thinking question! I think there is still going to be time! Doesn't matter if we don't have clocks, or if the Earth doesn't move, we can still counts seconds, minutes, hours. And I'm pretty sure if the Earth stopped rotating and moving, we would basically would die (not sure if that correct, correct me if I'm wrong so I can edit it if I need too!)

[xXJust Jump ItXx]

Basically if the earth stopped spinning all that would happen is you have no day and night and no seasons BUT you still have time because the earths rotation just stopped... it, itself isnt what time is.

[Manjusri]

Time only does not exist in the center of a black hole. And of course before the big bang. If you stopped the rotation of the earth you would only stop the change of the seasons, and day to night. However there is still change happening in and around earth, thus not eliminating time. To eliminate time you would have to eliminate every cause, every reaction, and every effect that will ever exist, or has ever existed. Time is not a creation of man, the only creation humans have made involving time is clocks. And those are only to track it, not create or stop it.