When you get right down to it our universe works alot like a computer program, composed primarily of data, numbers, and shapes. Which is why I have no trouble believing in the super string theory. Though it makes the world as we know it sound too much like The Matrix for comfort.
And to think, in every Matrix test I get Morpheus! You're all screwed!
Time is simply a unit of measurement. a measurement created to keep people in order and to help corporate America's employees show up to work when they are supposed to because 1200 hours is definite and saying when the sun is in the middle of the sky depends on individual judgement
Motion, energy and time are but the illusions of perceiving one STILL, frozen universe after another...No wonder on the microscopic scale every things moves in quantum jerks and jumps....The mind must move through what would be a lattice of frames of quantum jumps...And with quantum there are always forks in the road.which would lead us to different paths into several different futures directions..we seem to be pushed through...This push is the force we think of as time..and this unseen force usually compels us to move through the lattice primarily in one general direction..still there are great deals of variable paths..which would determine which future we take, or that our (own) consciousness takes...rejecting the other paths.
Time is a human invention, it only excists on the mind. If we lived forever and had no appointments we wouldn´t give a toss and wouldn´t need to start counting the seconds minutes hours until a certain thing has to happen or a person has to be met.