2006-07-17 19:50:12 · 11 answers · asked by nola_cajun 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Some scientists involved with quantum theory say that time is an illusion. Past, present and future are all accessible now.
If I could just figure out how to access those darn Powerball numbers for Wednesday...
2006-07-17 19:54:42 · answer #1 · answered by lily 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Space-time is like a record or a CD. The present is the "music" you're experiencing now. The past and future exist, but are not normally accessible unless they are in the present moment.
I've often felt like I sensed the future somehow. For example, I might feel "off" or strange for a day or two before someone close to me dies or has an accident.
I've heard it explained this way. Events leave "ripples" in time, in relation to people to whom the events are meaningful. These ripples go into the past as well as the future. Sensitive people can pick up on these waves BEFORE the event happens, just as people feel the effects after the event.
A weird question is, "Why don't we remember the future?" I guess the answer is, "Because the record plays the other way."
I've wondered before if people's actions are predetermined in the sense that the nonliving universe is. (Imagine a record after the grooves are put in it, but before it plays.) It may be that the nonliving universe is like a video game, and living things are like characters in the game: they do their thing separately from the predetermined world around them.
If that is the case, then the past and future already exist for nonliving things in the universe, but living things make their own way without being predictable.
2006-07-17 20:09:31 · answer #2 · answered by Baxter 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seeing the future is nothing but looking the way things happening presently and knowing its consequences in the future. Future never exists but, it exists as a cause of present. If you go to Gym today for the first time, you will have muscle pain tomorrow. If you decide not to go, the chance of getting muscle pain in .01%. If you start studying today, tomorrow you can be a scholar. Future depends upon present action. Present situation is an outcome of past. As simpel as that.....So now I know you can see the future now more clearly
2006-07-17 20:09:52 · answer #3 · answered by r_govardhanam 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Believe me or not, I don't care.
I've seen the future a couple of times: It is there. For me, as I've seen it, fate is inescapable. But since I realized that I am only a human being, every time I am about to "see" a future, I try to close my eyes so to keep the times to come into darkness: "It is the unkown what defines our existance". I beliebe we are made not to know the future and that that's our reason to live: Expect the unexpected. If I don't "know" it, it may well don't exist for me.
2006-07-17 20:02:15 · answer #4 · answered by shadowc_code_chopin 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah..Future is existing..In fact the past, the present and the future always exist..While you cannot change the past, the present and the future can bescripted by you...
2006-07-17 19:55:25 · answer #5 · answered by salapan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one can see the future because it is costantly moving and taking shape by our actions and choices we make in the present, therefore the future is existing but NEVER fixed.
2006-07-17 23:51:25 · answer #6 · answered by Master Vampyre 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The question is moot. Since we can not see the future then speculation about whether it exists or not is irrelevant.
2006-07-17 21:50:59 · answer #7 · answered by gMan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
s. of course future is exist
2006-07-17 21:59:08 · answer #8 · answered by N O 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
god can only see the future, anyway if we can see the future,this live must already be bored ,then no hope,then everyone he do not need to find a job ...............
2006-07-17 20:13:35 · answer #9 · answered by ahmad a 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
science proves other wise. yet i've always asked myself that same question for years... shouldnt my head explode with knoledge that huge yet it doesnt ahh i dont know!.
2006-07-17 19:55:18 · answer #10 · answered by JOhNe=mc² 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋