Could time be circular?

Answer 1

It appears that what we call "time" began with the Big Bang. But the law of cause and effect demands that there must have been something *before* the Big Bang; indeed, it demands that there must be an endless chain of causes and effects (or rather, of caused causes or effecting effects, as every effect is a cause and vice versa). So what you're really asking is: could the total number of links be finite? And the chain be circular? - The answer is that if there is a finite amount of matter, of particles (I am using the Newtonian model here), then the chain *must* be circular: for then the total number of different configurations, of different arrangements of particles must be finite, hence the series of different arrangements must endlessly repeat itself. See it as an endless rerun of a TV-program: every still picture is a "moment" then, a specific configuration of the material of which the "program", i.e., the *universe*, consists. As for me, I believe the amount of matter *must* be finite, the number of different arrangements *must* be finite, because the concept "amount" or "number" already presupposes a *finite* amount or number.

Answer 2

If you could see forever, would you end up looking at the back of your own head? The answer to your question is yes and no.*
See the trick is not answering all these questions. It is knowing the right question to ask?
I suggest to you that time is much more like a mantle. St. Peter in one of his letters says that in the end, time will be rolled up like a carpet.
It is not time, but God who is circular. God is Alpha and Omega. Einstein made us allow, that while we deal in straight lines, such things as straight lines do not exist in nature. We come in and go out naked. What goes around comes around, etc. etc.
Time is the mantle which precludes our vision of the circle. Celtic: The center and the circle are one. St. Paul to the Greek philosophers:: "In Him we live and move and have our being." He was quoting a Greek poet.
Bottom line for me, time correctly understood is not circular and it does have an end.
If you want to make a circular model be my guest. You can play with the models until your time runs out!

Answer 3

I think that smart guy up ^ there said it best(no not god, the guy more or less 2 people above me) If you believe in infinity time is in a circle cuz give infinity things will happen over and over again, and make a circle. But if it isn't infinite then no, because nothing could ever happen the same way again. Now you have a new question, but my own bet is it is circular.

Answer 4

It is possible that time is circular, because of so many natural circular patterns in existence. The circle is all em compassing, passionate and beautiful. It also represents time through infinity... but so does the triangle.

There are also many occurrences of three in nature - it is a very powerful number and the triad is also very female. If you believe that femininity is the force over nature - then perhaps time is more triangular.

Answer 5

The question is nonsensical. If time is literally circular then that means we are trapped in a loop, performing the same actions each time our time comes round. But how in effect is that actually different for time being linear?

Answer 6

Time near : every thing is constantly repeating a spiral like a slinky or spring Time far : all Slinky's are the same and there are a few different springs How would we say the universe is like a clock the gear's are hidden yet you can still watch the hand's that you have been dealt as they round about Good day, and keep the good questions going round!!!!!

Answer 7

Cyclical as anything else in universe we are dreaming in. Leigh of cycle is unknown, that produce a paranoia time to time related to the end of the world...This idea appearing cyclically too from the beginning of time...I , personally see cycles of time as repetition of the same mistakes or solutions humanity performing over and over again. It would be one cycle just producing same patterns but in different pictures Time exist only within our minds...no minds -no time...may that is why we are so limited?

Answer 8

Time has no extension. The future literally does not exist, so there's nothing to hook up in a circle.

Answer 9

If it is, you've asked this question before. So, why not check the answers then?
Or, since you'll ask it again in the future, you could just wait.

Answer 10

isnt it ? i mean 12 pm to 12 am a circle restarting every day ....
right ? ; )