Did you ever stop and think........?

Question

Where did the time go? As we get older and look back it has flown by. Are we accellerating along with time? Was the the BIG BANG just a snap? Have we looked to find out if this was the second or third BIG BANG? Were there multiple BANGS? Did they take trajectories of all galaxies to say there was only one BANG?

Answer 1

In a sense, yes, they did take trajectories - all galaxies are accelerating from all others in the universe - beyond that, you need to look into inflationary cosmology and string or M theory.

Answer 2

While I'm not sure about multiple big bangs, or for that matter, the big bang, I can try to answer your question about time.

There are some current theories, and they are out there a bit (in the quantum physics realm) that describe time as a perception based ideal.

Thus, as an example, if you are having a great day, out playing with friends, and you lose track of time and the day just seems to fly by, then it did, for you.

If on the other hand, you are stuck in a school room doing a test or at work in a boring job ( or at least a boring day), then time might actually drag for you.

I don't mean that you think it's like it's going slower or faster, but for you, in reality, it is actually going slower or faster.

To back that up, they have done some experiments with photons (light particles) which show that they will travel whereever they are predicted to travel depending on the math done, even if it's contrary to where they should have travelled if the math was done differently.

I know that sounds confusing, um, because I didn't describe it well, but basically they shot photons down one path. The path was known in advance because they did the math to show that this was the only path that the photon could take once it hit the splitter.

It did take that path.

Then they redid the experiment with the math now showing that the photon would not take that path (although it did previously) but instead would take a different path.

It did take the new path.

The concept here is that we make our own reality and reality bends or breaks to the will of the masses.

So, time is not really a constant, but instead is relative (Einstein) to the perceiver and then modified by the will of the masses. In essence, unless you could override the will of the masses, you cannot time travel or do anything fantastic. Once the will of the masses believes something to be true, then it becomes true.

I know, a long answer, sorry, but I had to say it.

Love as always,

Sebastian

Answer 3

It is just our perception of time that changes. When you are engaged in activites and are stimulated throughly especially if you are happy time flies by but when our perceptions are different as in childhood(I Think it would go by fast if you worked your whole childhood). I think there can be only one big bang where everything started where the laws of physics break down, but there are other phenomena where the rate of expansion of the universe is increased. Spend a few months or more in solitary confinment and it may distrupt your entire perception of progress of time. Most people say that time goes faster as they get older although there are some that experiance otherwise.
If you experiance other realities through the use of psyoactives or mental illness time can change dramatically, you may even go back and experiance what you already have or any imaginable possibilities. Time is not absolute. the unthinkable is how long was the universe existed in a pre big bang state since time did not exist yet.

Answer 4

Having raised my family and retired from my career time has slowed for me. It is hard to imagine so many phases of my life have gone by. Instead of being one of the youngest members of the extended family i am now near the oldest. Having grandchildren look at you and knowing it will be a real accomplishment to see them graduate by living long enough give you plenty to think about. The world has drastically changed since first I found life existed beyond the family. The countries that used be dominant in the world are no longer of much use. Time often drags on and the routine of daily activities makes the day of the week meaningless. That is part of life and I do not dwell on things beyond my control.

Answer 5

The instant of the big bang is as far back as we can speculate. At that instant, the entire universe existed and an infinitely massive, infinitely hot single point. Space and time curved in on itself and the rules of physics did not apply. So we cannot fathom a "time" before the big bang... I put time in quotesbecause before the BB, there was no time.

Answer 6

My science teacher subscribes himself to a personal theory he calls the "inhale/exhale" theory, and how he explains it is that he believes after periods of billions and billions of years of the universe expanding the internal gravity of the universe stops it from expanding any further and starts to shrink back together into another tiny dot and after billions of years causes another "big bang."

I accept this theory, because it is pretty reasonable, and well thought out, but it also interferes with several other theories such as time being a continuum.

Answer 7

That is very intelligent thinking. Never gave any thought to the concept of multiple big bangs, except in certain movies.

Answer 8

This is still the big bang, is it not? The time seems to be taking its time, same with the bang I suppose, if such a thing occured.

Answer 9

There may have been many big bangs and many overlapping parallel universes going on at once. We may never know the truth.

Answer 10

great question, and yeah, i agree. 20 years ago i was a kid and BANG here i am an adult with a job and a family and I feel like John Mayer in his song 1983....