Is Time Infinite?

Question

Can someone please give a logical argument to why time is either infinite or finite. Anyone majoring in math and/or philosophy would be helpful

If Time is finite does that implies something not bound by time created it and there was nothing before this being.

However if time is infinite, what does that imply?

does that imply something*

please i would like logical arguments, i really dont want to read just opinions

Answer 1

Time is a unit of measurement, nothing more, nothing less. You can have a finite amount of time, for example. The amount of measured time between this moment and another. That time can never be altered once measured, therefore it is finite.

Infinite simply means that the measurement will never be completed.....going on and on and on.

Answer 2

Most stuff I read says that space and time are things that exist only with a physical universe; both came into being when the universe started. Now, here's the horribly difficult part: what is, then, 'before' the universe? And 'how long' did it last? And if the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into? These questions seem to make sense because we assume time (and, especially, the linear property of time) and space somehow exist separate from the universe which most posit they don't (and if you really think about, these questions then hit a dead wall). And it gets even worse -- if some cosmologists are right and there's a beginningless and endless cycle where a universe starts, expands, collapses, and the cycle starts all over again, now what do we mean by this 'beginningless' and 'endless' cycle? Again, if we apply our notions of time and even infinite time to these, we would be wrong. It's more like 'timelessness' and this we can NOT grasp. And this brings into the very mystery of existence -- and the fact that something (whatever -- I;m not talking about the traditional concepts of god) had to always exist (which makes your mind go even crazier). There is no way for a brain, mired in the perception of dualistic (self vs. other) existence, to understand this. The only way is to train the mind to have a direct experience of reality (enlightenment) which literally transcends the dualistic self (the self drops away). And those who experience this report a non-dualistic identity for themselves and everything and an identification with this 'eternal' 'mystery of existence'. Read '3 Pillars of Zen' for some extra info.

Answer 3

Gen.1:1,2 All existed, evident as billions in time.
Gen.1:3-31 [ earth a focus, 41,870 years to Eden and all perfect ];
Gen.2:2,4 [ Heb.4:1-12; Eden and world began ];
Inhabitants meant to be perfect, perfection lost, at the end of 7,130 years the last 1000 years is Rev.20:1-6,13,14; It will end with all made as perfect as it was intended to be the whole 49,000 years and be a world without end on an earth without end included in time with the billions that had already existed before the earth became a focus.
John 17:3,5,24; Job 38:4-7; Job 2:1-2; Eze.28:13-15; Isa,14:12-14; Rev.5:11; Matt.26:53;
The inhabitants of heaven saw earth become a focus for habitation.
Adam was the first man, Eve was the first woman as created souls Gen.2:7; Isa.42:5; Num.16:22;
Abraham was #20 in the genealogy of Jesus. Matt.1:1-17;
Jesus was #62 from Adam, born as savior of the world 2006 years ago.

Answer 4

OK here's how it works. Our universe, as far as we know, contains 10 spacial dimensions and 1 time dimension. All 10 spacial dimensions, and therefore probably the time dimension as well, are round. Three of the 10 are very large - these are the regular 3 spacial dimensions that are encountered in everyday life. The other 7 are so small that not even our most powerful instruments have found evidence of them, so the only reason we know about them is that for our universe to exist, strings must vibrate in 10 dimensions. Since all of the spacial dimensions are round, it follows that time is too. Obviously, time's "circle" is as enormous as the 3 spacial dimensions', since we have no concrete evidence of the curvature of either. But theoretically, just as traveling in one direction forever will take you (after an immense amount of travel) to your starting point, so the universe must at some point (after traveling a great distance through time) return to some previous state and start all over again.

Answer 5

If time is infinite that would imply one of two things. One is that the most powerful being in the universe would still be bound by time and therefore would probably have to operate in time as we all do. Two is that a supernatural being that may have existed forever may not have created time as we know it, but, since he existed forever, time and this supernatural being have always coexisted and therefore may even be able to cooperate together. Time may operate exactly the way the supernatural being wants it to operate since time is not a concern to a being who lives forever.
Also, since this being has existed forever and forever is an expression of not only a length of time but time itself, it shows that this being and time have always existed together.
So, that would mean that this supernatural being would not have created time, but nothing would still be before this supernatural being because, since time and this being have always coexisted, neither would be before the other, and from this being would come other creations, meaning that this being would be older than all of his creations.
I hope that helps.

Answer 6

Time is finite. It began for our world around 13 to 15 billion yrs
ago. It began with the Big Bang. Time as we know it will end too, but my time (my lifespan) will be over long before this universe's time is up, I hope.

Answer 7

Time is finite. It has a beginning and an end.

Eternity, which is outside of time, is infinite. It is the fulfillment of time.

Answer 8

Time, most simply stated, is the measure of death. As long as there are things that are self aware, aware that they are alive and aware that they will someday not be alive, then there will be time.

So, really, the question isn't is time infinite.. the question is, is consciousness infinite?

Answer 9

Time is an human invention.
I believe the question is: Are changes infinite?

Answer 10

i contend finite
it is broken into seconds minutes years
my expirience of time will be a finite one

i am unable as a mortal to prove otherwise