alt Hacker NewsIn a sense, time is just different fractions of counting the number of times a planet of monkeys goes around the sun. The monkeys then apply this limited concept of time to the entire universe. But then in the grand scheme of things, everything that is now was nothing at one point and presumably will also be nothing again, then the only evidence of time are the monkeys who tried to keep count of how many times they orbited a star. When everything returns to nothingness, time will have been an illusion.
We don't know if anything ever was and will return to nothingness and even if nothingness is a valid concept. We don't know if cosmos as a whole don't experiment a form of consciousness, which don't need to be anthropomorphized to be clear.
And illusion implies that something exits, where the illusion can be casted and experimented.