@cicerone imposter,
cicerone imposter wrote:Time is a human concept.
Not exactly. It is the ability of the matter & space to self-organise and to re-organise themselves in a sequence of events, driven by some causality. Thus for example when you lit a Bengal fire stick the pyrotechnic mixture on the metal wire
(Al & Mg powder, barium nitrate, dextrins, and ferro-oxide raspings) is burning and oxidizing slowly with some spectacular effect for around 3รท5 min, depending on the dryness of the stick, the thickness of the Bengal layer, the humidity of the air, the oxygen in the air, etc. All these processes are actually determined by strict causality - no matter how many Bengal fire sticks you may burn, they are burning in one and the same sequence of events, in almost one and the same way, for approximately one and the same time. All that is possible owing to the
objective existence of the time component - it may be intangible, it may be immaterial, but it is obviously and objectively existing. If the Time had not existed the Bengal fire sticks could not have burned - all that processes are happening owing to the function of time and the objective existence of the time component.
Yes, in our understanding of the world Time is an abstract dimension (or variable, or characteristics, or call it as you wish), but it has objective representation in the real world and that is the ability of space, particles, matter, field, energy, light, etc. to be driven by causality and to change in compliance with preset arrangement ... that we are accustomed to call 'changes with the time'. The very Existence of anything itself is a function of time - by Def.
Existence is everything that IS - 'to be' is a verb, in other words representing a process, hence the Existence itself is by definition
a process - an immanent function of the Time component, from where follows that nothing can exist without the Time component, from where it has been derived, and from where follows that only Nothing can exist without time, for Nothing is defined as the non-existence of anything.
In other words your favorite Big Bang (if has ever happened - we are not talking about any creation yet) could not have had the Assumptions (the Gravitational Continuum) to have had created whatsoever, for there is no way for the Gravitational Continuum (which is a standard field) to have had existed without a Time component - before the Big Bang to have launched any Time - that I am not going to frighten you, but you will not be able to understand and to explain to yourself for lifetime.