What's your theory on how time began?

Question

Think back to the concept of the earliest dawn of time. Do you think there had to be a point where time began? Do you think there was a point when the first second occurred?

If so, what's your theory on how time began? Who or what do you think started time?

Answer 1

Time is really just a concept. We use it to try and measure existence in a linear fashion. It began with the first human and this need to have a measure of his existence. Time is only relative to humans. Animals have no concept of it, nor anything found in nature. Even in space time has no real relativity. A year in space (according to physicists) would be the equivalent to 50 years on the earth.

Answer 2

I like Stephen Hawking's approach to time, and even the Pope was scared that Stephen Hawking will prove that God doesn’t exist.

Hawking has done groundbreaking research on black holes and the origins of the universe. He proposes that space and time have no beginning and no end. On Thursday 15 June 2006, Stephen Hawking said that the late Pope John Paul II once told scientists they should not study the beginning of the universe because it was the work of God.

Hawking, who didn't say when the meeting was held, quoted the pope as saying, "It's OK to study the universe and where it began. But we should not enquire into the beginning itself because that was the moment of creation and the work of God." Hawking asked the Pope "Does it require a creator to decree how the universe began or is the initial state of the universe determined by a law of science?"

If the Pope genuinely believed that God created the universe, why was the Pope scared of science investigating the subject and proving that God existed. The truth is more likely that the Pope doesn’t believe in God and doesn’t want science to prove in fact that God doesn't exist.

Time will tell.

Answer 3

The CREATOR OF ALL THINGS created TIME also . but as the CREATOR exists in all exestance then THE CREATOR lives in the ETERNAL NOW. and it is human kind that marked off periods to measure an aspect of movement(TIME).
That is a problem as different people and /or religions mark the start of the day at different periods .For some the day starts with the rising of the sun. others the day starts at about the middle of the night.

Answer 4

time. it started way back when i was a child. yes im the oldest being to ever live. i witness jesus and god and the creation of the universe. when there were nothing but darkness. when there were no suns or red giants or any light. god created light, jesus took away sins, and i remained here to live as an immortal to witness the greatness or destructive power of mankind and share in there fate when the world dies. even after the world ends, time will continue although there will be no one to record time, it doesnt mean it doesnt exist anymore.

i am the alpha and the omega, i am the first and the last, i am the beginning and the end. i am vuezta.

Answer 5

This is what I make of it all so far. (I could change my mind any time though)

The oblivion can be split into existences.
Space time exists within a time-rate cloud with randomly varying density and forms hence the chaotic shape and nature of the universe as we see it.
The most natural state for the time rate is 0 which is the case at the edge of the observable universe and inside internal black holes.
Light travels at infinite speed when time rate is infinite hence the time rate at our region of space time is greater than 0 but lower than infinity.
Once the a finite time rate is established, the universe takes up a finite amount of time to return to its natural state of oblivion by imploding space time and energy matter.
While in the state of oblivion, despite a 0 time rate, the infinite span of possibilities makes it an unstable state to remain in – thus the unlikely scenario of 0 time rate flipping into a finite time rate and an anti time rate periodically spurs out existences which implode in a short but finite time. This also makes it possible for it to achieve the most unlikely scenario of all which is to split into an infinite time rate. Some of the original time – anti time existences mutate to other forms of existences such as space time and energy matter before they fully cancel out. The imploding process which now occurs at a finite rate due to the finite time rate is further disrupted by existence entanglement. Yet the natural tendency to implode continues to manifest as gravity.
The current state of the imploding universe appears to be accelerating since the time rate is receding faster than the space time and the matter energy it hosts.
There should be many other universes unrelated to ours that have no connection or relevance what so ever due to their alternate nature.

Answer 6

Time started when the heavenly bodies were put into motion. That is after all how time is marked and measured; rotation on axis and orbiting around each other.

The planets and solar system are really a big clock.

Who or what started it? God. Another explanation as to why God is outside of time and not subject to it. He created it.

Answer 7

Think of what you're saying:

"Time began"

The word 'began' implies that there is knowledge of time before it. How can something begin if there was not something before it? If you 'begin' smoking, for example, it has to be after and before something. However, if you were BORN smoking you Can't ever say you 'began'. Only a few seconds after you're born can say, "I began smoking" - otherwise it would be illogical.

So likewise, time cannot 'begin'. This is because in order for time to have a beginning there has to be time before it to define it as 'beginning', just like there has to be time before it to define when you 'began' smoking. For if you were born smoking, then when did you Begin smoking? You never began smoking! So likewise, neither did time ever 'begin'! Time is always before and after itself, and it has no beginning or ending.

Trying to ponder time's beginning and ending is like an invididual trying to ponder with his own perception when he or she is born and when he or she dies. For if this individual person knows when he is born, that implies he was born before it to know it, likewise, if the person knows when he or she is dies, that implies that the person is still alive to know when he's dead. Therefore, he didn't die, nor was he born. So likewise time was neither born, nor will it die.

Answer 8

I believe that time started when God created the heavens and the earth and caused the all the planets to rotate around the sun (that's how time is measured)

Answer 9

Time is one of the energies of Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Time as such only exists within the material world. In the spiritual world, the eternal kingdom of God there is no such thing as time. Of course, it is inconceivable for our material mind, but it is so explained in Vedic literatures, and if we go back to Godhead, we will experience it ourselves.

Answer 10

If I understand big bang theory correctly, time did not begin. If you could travel backward in time toward the big bang singularity, you could never actually reach it, even though from where we sit today, time is finite. Relativity is a be-atch.