The illusion of time: a mental construct or an objective reality?

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If there is something that has fascinated mankind is the subject of time, talking about time contains many enigmas, for those of us who are engineers and science educators, we have seen a veracity in time but I do not know if suddenly in an unequivocal way, the time to calculate the speed at which an object moves is very valuable, the time to calculate rates of change as flow rate is very valuable, and so on we can find examples that give a real validity to the meaning of time, however trying to find other meanings is not an outdated idea, which is why we can give us the following questions:

Is time a tangible physical dimension?

Maybe it is, but so far we have not had the way to verify it and to be able to live time in a real way as another physical dimension such as space.

Perhaps our way of understanding reality is not at the levels to understand that time can be something more than what it is for us today.

What about the vision for those who think that time is something invented and that we only use it as a way to give order to our lives in relation to our thoughts and experiences, in the end I think that everything is relative, and that every human being can think differently about something about which nothing has been proven reliably, the idea is that this issue should be addressed from the various perceptions that humanity may have about time in relation to whether it is something real or if it is a human illusion.

The question that may prove important is:

Does time exist independently of our consciousness?

In order to know it is necessary perhaps that we could imagine the existence of our world without the existence of the human being, if this were to happen, could time have any influence on the rest of our world?

For us it has an influence because we rely on the changes we experience, changes that go from our memories that make us discern between the past, present and future, we know that time exists because we age, we know that time exists because matter deteriorates, but those changes are detectable under human consciousness, Perhaps Einstein's theory of relativity gives us an idea that time makes sense under his theory of relativity, each individual has a perception of time according to their needs and the experiences they have been able to live, that is why in the relative of the one who observes and interprets time has a concept and meaning of its own.

At the exact moment in which time can come to have an influence without particularities and where it can be demonstrated that it is a dimension that accompanies space, then perhaps that will be the moment in which the human being will have reached a great level of understanding about the subjects and enigmas that today do not have severity in their demonstration.

I believe that the interesting issue is not to discover if time is an illusion or something real, here the important thing is to be aware that the human being lacks a high level of consciousness and understanding to reach the real meaning of time.