It is very much a matter of interpretation. The notion that "measurements made in the present can create the past" is not generally accepted by physicists. Fur

It is very much a matter of interpretation. The notion that "measurements made in the present can create the past" is not generally accepted by physicists. Furthermore, any idea that is put forward in terms of "X (a well-known concept) does not really exist" is almost certainly gibberish masquerading as hype. Of course time exists. If time is "really" an illusion it is still a perfectly real phenomena that is created by perfectly real causes and which results in perfectly real responses in knowing subjects who then mis-interpret their cause. Illusions are real. When we see impute a bend in a stick that passes through the water's surface we make a mistake, but the bend is perfectly real: it is just that the bend is in the light that passes between the stick and our eye, not in the stick itself. Anyone who says the bend is not real has to explain how is it that we see it. We cannot see what is not real, although we may on very rare occasions misinterpret what we are seeing (we know the occasions are very rare because if they weren't we would have no ordinary, non-illusitory experiences to contrast illusions with.)