Time exists only as a human construct. Hence, time is not a reality. An event is the reality upon which the human construct of time is superimposed. Events, which are realities, simply happen. I, Ward Joseph Jarman, am a reality that is currently happening. My life on Earth is the reality of a series of events that began with my father’s sperm attaching to my mother’s egg that initiated the formation of my tangible homo sapien body. There were/are a series of events that preceded the merging of my father’s sperm and my mother’s egg, but these events are not, strictly speaking, events of my life but of my father’s and mother’s lives, respectively, both individually and cooperatively.
The above accumulation of events constitutes reality. We, intelligent homo sapiens, may have a difficult (or very difficult) ‘time’ in coping with reality without superimposing a construct such as time upon reality. The sum total of reality (all of reality) is far too vast for the vast majority of humans to fully comprehend or even to consider reality as one, complete ongoing event.
Proof positive of this predicament is that modern science employing the scientific methodology has made their assertions concerning the reality of which I am speaking through the application of the construct of time and the process of reductionism.
Time is the construct. Change is the reality. I am still living. Hence, I am an event in process. However, I am an event that is not static. I am a dynamic event. Hence, I change.
I have substantially changed (as a dynamic event) from the time I was 7 years of age to the present time at this moment of being 74 (at 10:39 a.m. on November 21, 2025) going on to being 75 years of age once I awaken upon January 14, 2026.
Please note how many terms used in the above paragraph superimpose the construct of time upon the dynamic reality that I, Ward Joseph Jarman, am.
This accounting of time superimposed upon the reality of me was first initiated through the invention of the sundial. Crudely, but speaking simply, the original sundial could be correctly considered to be the impaling a long stick in an open space upon the ground of Earth such that the stick’s shadow is unimpeded. As the sun moves across the sky the stick’s shadow likewise follows suit to change according to the position of the sun relative to the stick.
The construct of time, therefore, is the comparison of the change inherent in one event to the change inherent in some other event. In this case, the real event of me is being compared to the real event of the sun’s movement across the sky of Earth as well as the Earth’s revolution around the sun. The construct of modern, contemporary time is not about the sun and the Earth but is about the movement of an atom which is the heart and soul of atomic clocks. Atomic clocks are now the standard for calculating the construct of time. Scientifically speaking, time is a measurement of change. Change is the reality. Time is the juxtaposition of change inherent in one event (reality) to the change in some other event (some other aspect of Reality).