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Originally Posted by rectangleboy

I always pictured time as a river, and I'm sure most others have. But what if time was like a pool of water, and stuff just happened? I guess you can say something can't exist until someone, or something makes it exist, right? Then did time exist during, or around, the big bang? Or is time eternal and infinite? Can time be eternal? Or is there a beginning to that too? If so, was there anything before time? Maybe there weren't any events before time, making time unneeded. What Tormod said earlier about the universe not existing without time, would kinda' be like what people say about God. Just like God explains what started everything, time explains everythign else that happens.

It's really more like this. Take notice of the fact that our planet makes quite a number of revolutions on it's own axis for each revolution about the Earth made by the moon. Now is doesn't matter if you invent some term called days to label those revolutions or not, they still happen. Time is that variable we use to calculate the velocity of that fluid motion. Fluid motion is happening throughout the universe. Some of that motions leads other motion, so of it follows. Some motion is faster than other motion. Even if we did not exist at all this would be the case in the universe. Time is. It does not rely on us and we did not invent it. FWIW, it is not an equivalent factor to the existence of God, there is no doubt that time exists, it is part of the fabric of the universe.