Why ..because time is in motion constantly...we are leaving the past and living the future..there is no timless moment..or portion of time that is not effected by the passage of time.so where is the present moment in time ???
2006-10-02 07:41:18 · 14 answers · asked by JJ 7 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
thank you Gimlit..question is for everyone who care to answer..and share their views
with me .that is my view ..my argument.. it dose not mean that it's the only argument ..
2006-10-02 08:54:41 · update #1
The problem is caused by the confusion of time as defined in classical physics and the psychological time which is quite a different thing. The psychological present in time lasts for the time during which you are in a defined state of awareness or mood. E.g., I am writing this answer in the present in time. But what I have written until here, was written in the past as defined in classical physics. When referring to a time as e.g. 02:26 a.m., it means the present moment defined as 02:26 a.m. on October 3, 2006, even though it may be future related to the actual time at the moment, when it is set and certainly will be past at the moment, somebody probably reads this text.
Actually one cannot separate past, present and future in a way which makes any sense. If You ask :' ... so where is the present moment in time?', the answer is bluntly :'right after the end of past and before the start of future!' You have no choice but to either accept this answer or to ask :'But where is the end of the past and where is the start of future?' This question is as much unperfectly fictive and for exactly the same reasons as is the question about the spot of the present moment in time. Take it or leave it - it makes no difference.
2006-10-02 13:47:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the present is on going. so the present is a fine line between the past and the fututre. only time seperates the past from the future. did that make any sense?
2006-10-02 07:45:02 · answer #2 · answered by luvmuzik 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would say that there is a constant present in which we live in, and the memories which belong to the past, what doesn't exist for me is the future.
2006-10-02 07:43:43 · answer #3 · answered by interpreters_are_hot 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The present is the infinitely small amount of a moment in which the organism has experience.
2006-10-02 07:55:00 · answer #4 · answered by rogerglyn 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Time is a random concept. It has no beginning and no end, therefore, there is no past, present or future.
OR if you prefer, there is no past or future only a continuous present constantly being rebuilt.
2006-10-02 07:57:04 · answer #5 · answered by Dave H 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The past doesn't exist anymore. The future has yet to come into existence. Therefore only the present exists.
2006-10-02 07:53:17 · answer #6 · answered by Les 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
We live in the present
2006-10-02 07:48:56 · answer #7 · answered by sky 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
but cannot the calculation of time be a moment that extends along with an event. such as Its taking me a few seconds but I am presently answerring your question.
2006-10-02 07:45:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
you answered your own question. there's no present in terms that we may think simply because present happens so quickly that by time we think of it it is already in the past.
2006-10-02 07:45:42 · answer #9 · answered by 2tall 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Time is not a spatial dimension, it is a temporal dimension. Your hypothesis is based on spatial and temporal dimensions having the same qualities.
2006-10-02 07:50:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋