I am sure that you noticed at least once in your life that moths seem to mindlessly flock to light and run into it. But the reason behind these insects’ strange behavior still remains a total scientific mystery.
Some entomologists think that artificial light sources throw off the moths’ internal navigation systems. They are primarily nocturnal creatures, so they evolved to travel by the glimmer of the mood, exactly by a method which is known as transverse orientation. According to Jeff Smith, curator of the moth collection at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, transverse orientation is to moths just as to humans is keeping the North star in a certain position for guidance. It is thought that these insects keep the light source at a certain position in relation to their bodies for guidance.
But there are a few problems with this theory. The most major being that campfires have been around for about 400,000 years, so why didn’t all moths die already by natural selection if their instinct tells them to go into any blinding light?
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In order to HAVE time you need at least two objects that are not like each other in any manner. In the situation where that does exist movement of one relative to the other is time. We have that situation.