Could there be space without time and vice a verse?
2006-07-21 05:18:01 · 11 answers · asked by pelister56 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
In my own opinion, since time is a measurement of change, then if there is no space in which things can change, then there can be no time measurement.
The question I would like to pose is this: Where did it all come from in the first place?
I mean, if the universe has ALWAYS existed forever, then the laws of science and thermodynamics state that the universe would run down in a finite amount of time, and that means it would have been dead by now.
But if you say the universe has NOT always been here, that is - if it's not dead yet because it's not yet old enough, (that implies it had a beginning), then how did it come into existence, considering (again) the laws of thermodynamics that state that this state of non-existence must remain.
2006-07-21 05:24:30 · answer #1 · answered by no1home2day 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. Time and space are interconnected as dimensions. Just as height, length, and width are interconnected, so is time to the other three.
The passage of time can only be measured by the presence of events occurring in the other 3 dimensions. If there is no space, the universe would be static, sterile with no events occurring anywhere (especially since it would be no-where). Without some kind of event, even if it is just the decay of a sub-atomic particle, there can be no passage of time that we can conceive of. Time would be meaningless.
2006-07-21 12:30:50 · answer #2 · answered by Search first before you ask it 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not according to what I read. Three dimensional space and time, spacetime, came into existence through the Big Bang. Space and time are wrapped together. They only come as a set. Not sold separately.
2006-07-21 23:14:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Big Bang cosmology, both space and time started at the same instant. In general, space and time are part of a mutual geometry, so they cannot exist independent of each other.
2006-07-21 12:29:46 · answer #4 · answered by mathematician 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as far as i know, the current scientific paradigm accepts Einstein's theories of relativity, and relativity states that we live in a four-dimensional universe (three of space and one temporal - time).
if we make sense of all this, it's just natural to say that if space doesn't even exist yet, time (since it's a dimension in the same universe as space makes up three dimensions of) wouldn't exist also.
2006-07-21 12:30:05 · answer #5 · answered by hapones120 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very good question. Now you have me wondering????I dont belive so,I'm going to watch your answers to see what others think.
2006-07-21 12:24:06 · answer #6 · answered by dymond 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know what the correct theoretical answer to this is, but really, who cares?
2006-07-21 12:22:42 · answer #7 · answered by Aaron W 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Guess they both go hand in hand !
2006-07-21 14:53:30 · answer #8 · answered by R G 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SPACE TIME COEXIST..
2006-07-21 13:58:48 · answer #9 · answered by Prakash 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, they are interdependent as x and y axis
2006-07-21 12:57:03 · answer #10 · answered by kuttan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋