If a universe forms and there's no one around to see it, does it still take several billion years?

Question

ha ha...

We measure time according to our observation of the sun, and the dimension of time within our brains. If there is no observer, what difference does it matter how long it took?

What do you mean how old am I? What I'm trying to say is that the time it took for the Universe to form doesn't discount God, since our idea of God puts him outside of time, leaving no observers of time. I was making a little humor of it.

Sorry I took that offensively as if you were saying I was being immature or something. I later realized your question of my age could have been for two completely different reasons. Sorry. I'm 25.

Make that 3 different ways. You're comparing the importance of my age to the importance of the age of the universe...ooohhhh. Maybe I should stop waking up the morning after a long night of partying and asking questions.

Answer 1

Your question had already been answered by Einstein with his Special Theory of Relativity. Einstein said that there is no absolute time in the universe because of the way light waves travel. So, assuming that you observe the new universe forming from the surface of the Earth, yes it would take billions of years. However, if you observe it at a different place (let's say from the Andromeda Galaxy) then in would take more or less billions of years compared to our observation for the universe to form (depending on what direction it is forming).
So basically, scientist measure the time it takes for something to occur on our own perception of time.

Answer 2

We don't measure time according to the sun. Well, we can, but the international standard uses caesium atomic clocks to measure time. We also don't measure time with our brains. If you put a stop watch down and let it run, walked away, and came back, the clock would have measured the amount of time it took for you to leave and come back. Our brain wasn't involved but time was measured.

Answer 3

We can measure time that already had gone... how old are you? This is a very important question because the answer brings informations about you. So it is for the Universe.

Answer 4

No, it doesn't. It depends on what you mean by "year". A "year" could be anything. It could be only one year... But then If right now were one year, then a year would need to be divided into 365 "days" and 24 "hours", etc... And one second would be 450 earth years.

Answer 5

If a man answers a Yahoo Answers question, and no women are around to read it, is he still wrong?

Answer 6

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