Bob K

wordsmyth: Things/events change regardless of the perception of time.

Time is an abstract concept/principle. It requires a perceiving being. If there is no perceiving being then things/events continue through causality to occur in sequences wherein things/events as causes cause/create things/events as effects, which become new causes, ... etc.

Time as we observe when men are �doing time� requires a means of measurement, which has to be a time-interval, so men can measure the time-intervals between/among the occurrences of events in sequences and thereby be able to answer by how much time [how many time intervals] did A occur before B, etc.

If a time-interval is variable because its clock is subject to changes of velocity/gravity then the measurement of time varies and is inaccurate compared to a clock whose time-interval is invariable and is therefore measuring Absolute Time.

Variable time-interval clocks produce an illusion of time as spacetime compared to invariable time-interval clocks, which separate space and time and destroy the illusion of time as spacetime.