If time is infinite where did matter come from in the first place?

Answer 1

Time is not infinite, it started when God created the world and will end when He chooses. God exists outside of time, and I believe when the Bible says we will live forever, we will be pulled outside of time as well, there will be no more need for time.
(please not that unlike some of my other posts, this is just my personal opinion, there is, to my knowledge, nothing in the Bible about when/if "time" itself is going to end, though this world certainly will.)

Answer 2

Great question...

However time is not infinite...it is a continuum, it is a measurement just as height and width are a measurement of the physical...without matter there is no time as there is nothing to measure anything against. Does that make sense?

Time is simply a calculation of physical movement based on scale and form in it's simplest of definitions

I actually have a bit of a problem with infinity to be honest, it is one of the most complex mathematical principles ever asserted; nowadays this term it is so often mis-used and it's meaning so dumbed-down and simplified word (religous notions of the infinite nature of God must take a lot of responsibility for this) in our modern parlance that people get hung up on it when it is only mathematicians (who are really barking mad anyway) really comprehend it's nature and are nuts enough to even try...

Thus matter and time are one and the same thing, innit

Regards

Ichi

Answer 3

let me try ...
matter exists but they also don't exist.

one guy said time exists only when matter exists.
since it's the calculation of movements of blah blah..
which means if matter doesn't exist, time doesn't exist.

but the thing is, matter is infinite therefore time is infinite.
how is matter infinite you ask?
because there is no matter in the first place.

okay yes, there are matters.
but when matters FILL the whole universe, they become nothing.

how is that so?
for example, if you fill the whole universe with WATER.
ONLY WATER, nothing else.
can you say there is water?
yes there is water but because water is the ONLY thing that exist in the universe, it makes nothing else exist.
when nothing else exist, only water, how can you define anything else?
how can you even call water "WATER" when nothing else exist?
when there is nothing to compare with?

when the whole universe is filled with water, it becomes nothing.
when the whole universe is filled with matter, it becomes nothing.
therefore, time exists but it also doesn't exist.

time = no time.
matter = no matter.
existance = non-existance.

everything is and is not.

who am I to say it's the answer?
no, it's not the answer.
they are just my thoughts after taking philosophy class and study of some Buddhism.
but I hope they make sense ... in a way =)

Answer 4

The way I see it is that time only exists when there is relative motion. For example, in a universe composed of two non-rotating particles, if they remain motionless relative to each other, nothing ever happens and there is no time. However once there is relative motion we can then determine relative time by assigning an arbitrary unit, say when their seperation has doubled we can call this a second if we wish. Also if there is rotation, we can assign an arbitrary unit of time to the period of rotation, against which all else can be relative to.
Time only exists because something happens, the units chosen are arbitrary, and against which all else can be defined.
Therefore time does not exist before the universe exists. and currently it is thought that the universe is finite, hence time is finite.

Answer 5

We do not know whether time is infinite or not. But it doesn't matter if time is infinite or finite, matter in the Universe came about because the Universe had tremendous amounts of energy when it started to expand (aka Big Bang). The energy eventually coalesced into elementary particles (or matter) when the Universe cooled (about 400,000 years after the Big Bang).

Answer 6

From Time.

Answer 7

The same place as time. Matter (and it's alternate "form", energy) are also infinite.

Answer 8

I think we would be remiss to assume time is infinite in the first place.

Answer 9

according to einstien e=mc squared. from this equation we infer that energy can be converted to mass and vica versa(thus the nuclear bomb was made) the big bang is a dot of infinite energy in nothing, expanding spontaneously to produce mass(matter)

Answer 10

Nobody knows. It's possible the whole universe is a white hole with matter from some other universe getting sucked into this one. We just don't know yet.