Is there always a tomorrow? Is time really infinite?

Question

We have now discovered that the beginning of the universe came with the Big Bang... a single, compressed ball of matter that exploded and expanded, eventually becoming the universe that we know today.
But what about before the big bang? Where did that ball of matter come from?
And when the universe ends, if it ever does, will time continue to move forward? Can there be time when there's no matter? Without movement or change, does the concept of time flow exist?

What do you think... is time finite or infinite? Linear or cyclical? Is the past and future 'stored' somewhere or does it cease to exist as the present unfolds?

Answer 1

Yes. Time is infinite.

The very concept of time implies there will be a tomorrow.

;-)

Answer 2

The ancient Hebrews would have said that in a sense past and future are stored, because the future is the unfolding of the past, making them all part of a whole.

The ancient Greeks, who have most influenced us, adhere more to the linear view of progress.

The Hindu's believe the world ends every 6,000 years, rests for a 1,000 and then starts the cycle all over again--diabolical philosophy that one, to my mind, forever trapped on the wheel of karma.

I think, now that we're down to personal opinions, that time began with the beginning of the universe, that there is a point beyond which we cannot go in our thinking about the beginning of things; and that time, in the sense of a temporal rhythm of life, will always go on.

At this point time is warped by entropy, but I think a time will come when time will be warped by nothing, and the flow will be perfect.

The musings of one who holds to the Biblical view of Creation in the book of Genesis, and the Biblical view of the end time in Revelation.

Hey Ho, Maggie
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Answer 3

the question of the birth and death of the universe is very different from the question of time. people see time as it relates to human existence not how it relates to the universe. time is how we measure events, even when things aren't happening. you could say that there was a time before the 'big bang', there was a time before the 'ball of matter' came to be, there will be a time when the universe collapses on to its self and is destroyed and there will be a time after that, even if nothing is there. as i understand time there will be a' tomorrow' no matter what is left of the universe. time is more of an infinite idea, but not necessarily infinite.

Answer 4

time only exists in the physical world because of events. Tomorrow is just what we humans call earth rotation event, there is really no today or tomorrow, just now, we can think of the past or the future, but we live an a continous NOW and events=time in the physical.

Time does not exist in the unified field or the gap of nothingness. and this is where all creation comes from, an infinite dimension where time does not exist. It is the fountain of creation that is everywhere. God or just cosmic intellegence that turns nothingness into galaxies, stars, flowers, trees and human beings.

Answer 5

some very smart high flown scientist claim it will eventually end when all is consumed by an enormously powerful consume of black holes and then everything will start all over again... over my head!
time is dimension dependent on existence... can your mind think without a brain ? if a tree falls in an empty forest with no-one to hear does it make a noise you have some very meaty questions . Edgar Cayce claimed past and future all came together but I've never been where he went ...i think your guess is as good as anyones I'd go with cyclical...

Answer 6

I'm way out of my league here but here goes. I think the word "Time" denotes finiteness right off the bat. So in short, Time is not infinite.

I read this great book "Book of the Cosmos" (Dennis Danielson) (can find it on Amazon.ca, that had a lot of discussions in it about time. One of them (can't remember who wrote it... some famous philosopher) claims that Time is a measure of movement, and without movement there is no time. I like that idea. It sort of involves what you're asking about, although not completely :P

Answer 7

Time does certainly have a course, and it does certainly have a initiating. whether it has an end is an unresolved question. in accordance to in the present day's superb theory, the vast Bang began a small fraction of a 2nd after the initiating of time. because of the fact the toddler universe develop into changing rather without delay then, the fraction of a 2nd is substantial. the initiating of time colincides with a quantum fluctuation. It purely had to take place as quickly as, and each little thing follows from that. The rules of physics -- Newton's, Maxwell's, Einstein's, and quantum mechanics -- are insensitive to the path of time. yet there is one concern interior the early universe that supplies time its course. In thermodynamics, there's a regulation of continually increasing entropy -- of continually increasing sickness. by itself, tghis regulation is likewise insensitive to the path of time. yet we see an egg roll off the table and splatter on the floor. We never see a splattered egg assemble itself from the floor, and then upward push intact to the tabletop. This illustrates a transformation in entropy. In our basic experience, we see that entropy will develop -- the egg falls down, no longer up -- and if entropy is increasing on one particular course, then the universe interior the distant previous (close to the initiating of time) could desire to have had notably low entropy; it relatively is, it is going to have been very particularly ordered. And in accordance to the assumption, it develop into. The "inflationary" era close to the initiating of the vast Bang smoothed out the universe to an exceedingly severe degree, giving it a uniformity that has develop into progressively greater disordered ever in view that. which skill entropy continually will develop throughout the universe, and subsequently time has a course.

Answer 8

well like you said the ball of matter had to come from somewhere and just because none of us know what other stuff could've been going on before it doesn't mean it never did. And if earth blew up tommorrow I doubt everything else, all the planets, moons and stars would just bloooop disappear like it was never there. Nah they'd still be floating around doing their thing.

Answer 9

( I didn't get into all that ink. Just the question. ) There's always a tomorrow, but not for everyone. Time has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Like everything in the universe. I thought you knew that.

Answer 10

Well first of all that is why the big bang makes no scence at all....if the big bang just happend for no reason at all and created all this what was the cause? Remeber cause and effect...Yes I believe in creation...because I don't believe that things just happen...there is a reason for everything that happens nothing is spontanious. As far as infinate time...I believe in it yes...just not always on this earth...We live on earth for a while and then when we die...well that depends on who you ask...but most religions believe in some kind of afterlife...so in that retrespect time is infinate...just not nessasarily in the same sense or same time and space....Hope that makes sense.

Answer 11

in my opinion, there will always be time. even if the entire universe were to collapse tomorrow. Why would that mean there isn't time, then again, if there is no one to count the time or watch it go by, does it really exist? just like if a tree falls and there isnt anone to hear it, does it make a sound? pretty complicated and philosophical stuff we're dealing with here.