No one keeps track of time better than Ferenc Krausz. In his lab at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, he has clocked the shortest time intervals ever observed. Krausz uses ultraviolet laser pulses to track the absurdly brief quantum leaps of electrons within atoms. The events he probes last for about 100 attoseconds, or 100 quintillionths of a second. For a little perspective, 100 attoseconds is to one second as a second is to 300 million years.

But even Krausz works far from the frontier of time. There is a temporal realm called the Planck scale, where even attoseconds drag by like eons. It marks the edge of known physics, a region where distances and intervals are so short that the very concepts of time and space start to break down. Planck time—the smallest unit of time that has any physical meaning—is 10-43 second, less than a trillionth of a trillionth of an attosecond. Beyond that? Tempus incognito. At least for now.

Efforts to understand time below the Planck scale have led to an exceedingly strange juncture in physics. The problem, in brief, is that time may not exist at the most fundamental level of physical reality. If so, then what is time? And why is it so obviously and tyrannically omnipresent in our own experience? “The meaning of time has become terribly problematic in contemporary physics,” says Simon Saunders, a philosopher of physics at the University of Oxford. “The situation is so uncomfortable that by far the best thing to do is declare oneself an agnostic.”

Well that is quite a good question. The only facts I can back up that time may have some form of existence is this:

24 hours in a day.... 24 beers in a case.. Coincidence? I think not.

Keep in mind as "time" passes by to not take it for granted. Also, don't piss off your kids. When your "time" is near, they choose your nursing home. x.x


"Does killing time damage eternity?"


Back on topic now.

Time is merely a measurement tool. Just as we made up charts and tables to keep track of things like height, weight, length, there is time. So it's existence is simply based on how you look at it. If you look at it as a tool that we developed over time, yes. It does exist. If you look are looking at it as some mythical thing passed on from the start of Earth, then it is nothing more than a unicorn.
Keep in mind at one point in time, there was no measurement of time. There was just an estimate on how long you felt it would be until the sun goes down.

That's my thoughts on it.

But since time travel is possible from a scientific standpoint wouldn't that mean time is more than a form of measurement?