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©2014 by LeeZard The time has come today….. Chambers Brothers Ti-i-i-ime is on my side, yes it is….. Rolling Stones Time keeps on slippin,’ slippin,’ slippin’ into the future….. Steve Miller Band Who invented “time?” If you enter the question into Google, several sites address the question and all in a similar way; nobody invented time. If you look further  you learn that the concept of time was more the evolution of observation(s), i.e. the changing of the seasons, the rising and setting of the sun and moon, etc. I’ve looked at several explanations of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and, frankly, my eyeballs start rolling back into my head. Clearly I am not a physicist. The closest thing I found to an understandable (to moi) explanation is at  http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/02088/einstein.htm : “In 1915, Albert Einstein first proposed his theory of special relativity.  Essentially, this theory proposes the universe we live in includes four dimensions, th