time is most definitely not an illusion; it's a rather essential fabric to the universe, the fourth dimension, and all sorts of other goodies.....our MEAUSUREMENT of time may be man-made, but time itself exists whether or not we measure it. Some believe, myself included, that it is not static, but rather dynamic, and if anything, we are static in the river of time. Mathematically we should be able to move both forward and back along it, but the technology doesn't exist (yet) whcih is truly ironic.