RE: Time

From what I understand, time is mythological. Time is a social construct that was conceptualized to bring unity to a larger group of people. If you look back far enough, time din't truly exist. We were just aware that at one point in the day, the sun hit a peak, and when it became dark, you could no longer work outside, which became known as a time to sleep. When the world revolutionized, trains became a major system of transportation and people need to know when the trains were leaving and coming. So the concept of what "when" is, developed into a railroad clock. Railroad time became everyone's time. Now, where things get really trippy for me is when I realize that there is no "standard time". If you compress time (i.e. Beethoven's symphony) is it still the same amount of time or is it less time? If you speed up time, who's to say you are really speeding up time. what if time seems faster simply because another part of the universe is moving slower? I think it is conceptualized and experienced differently for every individual (i.e. the people we discussed in class who one experienced a sneeze within the span of 5 minutes and another girl cannot slow down her speech to be recognizable). We identify time by hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds, etc. However, if we had never made any of those terms, how could time be defined? Time is something that allows change. I am astonished at the fact that time is something everyone on this earth has in common, but it's different for all of us.