Hi,
Haven't read the entire thread so maybe my point has been covered, here's a UK view. Time IMHO is a dimension. Dimensions are man conceived entities needed to determine the where and the when of events. In the Universe we inhabit and has locally devolved from the (presumed) conditions of the nano second post 'big bang', we find that we need only 3 spatial dimentions to determine the 'where' of an event in an inertial frame and one time dimension to determine the when. Relativity shows us that all 4 dimensions are relative and only substantive in our local frame. Time IMHO does exist and does not have our consciousness as a prerequisite for its existance.
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