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What if what we perceive of as time doesn't exist....what we see is nothing more than our perceptions of vibrating energy and our conscious mind's attempt at making sense of it. What if Einstein's notion of time being a dimension is wrong and is due to what I mentioned above. Take consciousness out of the interaction between matter (which is nothing more than a complex interaction of energies) with what we call spacetime and the whole notion of spacetime collapses like a deck of cards?? What we perceive as the past, present and future might very well be a series of possibilities that exist all at once, in an omnipresent "now". Our perception of time as flowing in a direction might just be an illusion generated by our "insertion" into the interaction between these various vibrational states of energy and matter.
The only problem is we couldn't measure it, because our working, logical minds are limited by our perceptions and our equipment is limited by our own limitations in knowledge and abilities. We maybe able to think about it on an abstract level but have no way of detecting anything concrete about it. Unless we change our minds to act, think and work differently. Then to do that, what do we do?? What technologies do we come up with??
The whole idea of a fundamental unit of time, a Planck time; of length, a Planck length etc etc, may have more to do with our imprecise knowledge of what constitutes reality than it does with our actual true understanding of any of the physics behind it all. Something which I am very sure we know very little about, despite of how far we've come in the last 100 years.
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