is time cyclical?

Answer 1

On the Earth, time works cyclical because we are spinning. If you are speaking about stars, yes, they are born from stars that have died in the past, and it does seem to be quite cyclical, but each cycle is not identical. For example, some stars are taking on more complex elements as they die and are reborn each time.

If you are speaking on a larger universal scale, I have often wondered about this myself. If you go far enough into the future, do you end up back at the beginning, and then going farther, into the recent past? So the way to travel to the past, if time cannot move backwards, is to move forward far enough into the "future." I think this is an interesting idea, because when you consider the idea of paradoxes, do they apply?

Is it really the same past, or does it just appear that way, because things tend to repeat in the same way - just as one winter is very much like the previous winter (cold and sometimes snow), but it's not exactly the same, slightly different temperatures and amounts of precipitation (perhaps a chaos factor comes into play)? If it's true that it only appears to be the past, how much would a chaos factor affect the "new" past?

So in essence, I guess what I am saying is that even if things tend to appear to be cyclical, that does not mean that each cycle is the same - and in fact, there are perhaps minor and significant variations that simply bear a resemblance to the previous cycle. This makes it confusing to draw a clear delineation between "cyclical" and "linear," admittedly.

Well, perhaps I have just thought about this too much. :)

Answer 2

Time is cyclical and predestined. There is no such a thing as a "straight line" in nature. The shortest distance between 2 points is not a "straight line" but a geodesic, a curve. We have been misled thinking that time is linear. If so, you are stuck with the question: Who was first, the chicken or the egg? There is no logical solution to this. It is a conundrum. However, cyclical time answers this question easily. On the practical level, fortune telling and "deja vues" exist because we remember "the movie". Thus, in cyclical time you perform an eternal action. Whatever you do will repeat again. That is our responsibility. Therefore, we don't learn but we remember. (As Plato pointed out.)
Time is cyclical, predestined and eternal.

Answer 3

No, time isn't cyclical. But both physical and information systems can have cycles in time. A computer program stuck in a loop is a simple example. The economic cycles of boom and bust are another example. A standing wave in a vibrating string, or the day/night cycle is yet another. The repeated coming back of false ideas or unstable political systems are still others.

Answer 4

cyclical? Possibly. But how would it cycle? Would it cycle like bicycle? I don't know. Time can't cycle.

Answer 5

Are you referring to how space-time oscillates or just asking if things and behavior tend to repeat themselves?

Hope these help.

Answer 6

no, it's completely linear, once we reach a certain point, we are not back at the beginning again.

Answer 7

can you explain you question more?
it means that time goes past or some thing?