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2006-07-28 13:45:57 · 19 answers · asked by Dia 3 in Social Science Psychology

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Time doesn't go anywhere. In order to "go" somewhere, it would have to move. But time is something that always exists everywhere in the universe. How can something that is everywhere move? It would have to take on a new location that it didn't occupy before. But, it was everywhere! So, time can't move.

That being settled, I think what you really want to know is, where does the past go? And I think the past doesn't go anywhere either. The past is the past. It doesn't go to a new place; it just ends at a different spot. It doesn't get bigger since it goes back forever.

2006-07-28 13:47:18 · answer #1 · answered by I Know Nuttin 5 · 0 0

if you have a good memory, or have the time to whip out an old scrap book or photo album, you'll see where time went.

If you feel old, or you feel life is rushing you more than you would like it to. Sit down with a pen and paper, and right some of your best memories. try to start from when you were little.
Keep a journal of everything you remember a new memory, and look back on it, you'll realize jsut how fullfilling your life was.

If you want, keep a daily journal. just a few sentances a day could help you, feel a whole lot better about time. Plus its a great thing to hand down to your children, or keep for the rest of your life.
They could learn from your mistakes and achievements.

2006-07-28 20:51:45 · answer #2 · answered by anjui63 4 · 0 0

Depends on your concept of time. Time goes on forever and is a dimension of your universe that can't be separated from space as they are a continuum. And that is the standard and scientific explanation of time.

I think of memories like a camera. They keep moments in time, but time doesn't go into it. A moment is frozen in time in your memories just like a picture.

But your question is interesting because time is also subjective in the sense that we experience it in different ways, so in that sense maybe we could say goes into memories, our representation of the past, our own personal pasts, in our minds.

One could come up with more and more science about time, about how time develops linearly and there is a past, a present and a future in that line that can be accessed if you could pass through a black-whole or a worm-whole but your question I think calls for more than this.


Take care,


Doppelganger

2006-07-28 20:55:06 · answer #3 · answered by Doppelganger 1 · 0 0

This is a little metaphysical. Physicists, philosophers, poets, and theologians have been trying to answer this forever.

According to the theory of general relativity, space and time are inextricably linked. For instance, let's say that there is a pair of twins. One twin goes in a spaceship that approaches the speed of light, while the other stays home on earth. In a month, the twin on the spaceship returns home. Thousands of years have passed on earth, and his twin is long dead. However, the children, grand children, and so on have built a grand civilization while the twin in the spaceship spent a month watching old sitcoms on TiVo.

Which twin made the better use of his time? I can't answer that, and I can't tell you where time goes. However, I hope you are a little wiser after reading this.

2006-07-28 20:56:29 · answer #4 · answered by ttogreh 2 · 0 0

What a nice thought. Since time does not go back but always forward the time that has passed fades into the past,history and our memories.Why its said that when someone passes and we keep in our memory the reality of the person's existence stays.

2006-07-28 20:53:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

"A further major way to distinguish different memory functions is whether the content to be remembered is in the past, retrospective memory, or whether the content is to be remembered in the future, prospective memory. Thus, retrospective memory as a category includes semantic memory and episodic/autobiographical memory. In contrast, prospective memory is memory for future intentions, or remembering to remember (Winograd, 1988). "

"Prospective memory can be further broken down into event- and time-based prospective remembering. Time-based prospective memories are triggered by a time-cue, such as going to the doctor (action) at 4pm (cue). "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory

2006-07-28 20:51:42 · answer #6 · answered by rodneycrater 3 · 0 0

It goes wherever you want it to go. Sometimes when something special happens you treasure time and it turns into a memory. Other times when you hate something you wish you could turn back time and forget about it. Finally, time passes by quickly and you should always remember your special moments and the ppl around you.

2006-07-28 20:47:59 · answer #7 · answered by smarty 2 · 0 0

Time dissipates sort of, but it seems to be perpetual in that process. Perhaps our memories become the thoughts that others think, there definitely is a connection with time in that.

2006-07-28 20:48:44 · answer #8 · answered by groovusy 5 · 0 0

time travels at the speed of light, and is heading towards all directions outward from the center of the universe. For example, 4 billion years ago is currently at 4 billion light years away. If you look through a powerful enough telescope and look at 4 billion light years away. You are looking at 4 billion years into the past. That's where time went.

Likewise, if you went 4 billion light years away and looked at the earth from that same telescope, you are looking at the earth 4 billion years ago.

2006-07-28 20:50:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

From "SpaceBalls: The Movie"
What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie?
Colonel Sandurz: Now. You're looking at now, sir. Everything that happens now is happening now.
Dark Helmet: What hapened to then?
Colonel Sandurz: We passed then.
Dark Helmet: When?
Colonel Sandurz: Just now. We're at now now.
Dark Helmet: Go back to then.
Colonel Sandurz: When?
Dark Helmet: Now!
Colonel Sandurz: Now?
Dark Helmet: Now!
Colonel Sandurz: I can't.
Dark Helmet: Why?
Colonel Sandurz: We missed it.
Dark Helmet: When?
Colonel Sandurz: Just now.
Dark Helmet: When will then be now?
Colonel Sandurz: Soon.

Clear enough?

2006-07-28 20:56:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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