If time is infinate it can never be used up, so where does the Present go to when it becomes the Past?
2006-10-19 10:20:30 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Time does not get used up. Time intervals are variable depending on relative speeds or gravitational field strengths.
To go back in time, create a 'wormhole' a shortcut between two areas of space. They're sub-atomic usually, so you need some 'exotic or dark matter' to inflate them to macroscopic size. Then, (this is the tricky bit!) tow a rotating black hole to one end of your wormhole thus created. Using the time-dilation created by the relative motion, you can the travel forwards or backwards in time to your hearts content! Alternatively if your existing technology isn't up to it, why not rent out or borrow one from an advanced alien civilisation-sure they'd be keen to help out! Btw, don't even think of going back to the Triassic to shoot a T. Rex-I did, stood on a butterfly by mistake, changed world history, and now we got George W Bush!
2006-10-19 12:45:47 · answer #1 · answered by troothskr 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It takes time for the words of a person to reach you from across a room.
Everything you see and hear is from the past.
Where does the time go? It goes to other people.
These words were written in the past and yet as you read they will become the present.
Before you read them they were in your future.
2006-10-19 17:32:38 · answer #2 · answered by sw21uk2 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Memories. That's why the Past keeps turning into the Present again from time to time.
2006-10-19 17:24:43 · answer #3 · answered by shirleykins 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well thinking about how we use time, time passes onto to someone else. How many time zones do we have around the world? 12midday happens say two dozen times. So when USA has finished with it the UK can have it and then later on South Africa, China and the rest of the world. Once it has gone round the globe of course another is already on it's way. But we always remember the good and bad.
2006-10-19 17:32:22 · answer #4 · answered by Clare 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a dimension in which events occur in sequence. Thus, time never goes to anywhere, neither it can be used up- it is us who are traveling through time. Any given point of time stays exactly there, we just pass through that towards future. Hypothetically, it is possible traveling back to past using a time-machine and scientists are working on it.
2006-10-19 18:12:06 · answer #5 · answered by orebabaa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in terms of the present and past being the infinite series of events that have taken and will take place and not in relation to time which itself is a form of measurement created by us to measure series of events, The present only becomes the past when it is remebered, all other events no-matter how significant or insignificant if not recorded dissapear without a trace therefore are no longer the past.
2006-10-19 18:34:44 · answer #6 · answered by fred_mos 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time is an artificial construct--an abstraction. It is only a measurement gauged by earth relative to the sun and moon.
Thus time doesn't go anywhere.
It is a similar question to where does space go?
One could walk continuously on the earth's equator circling the globe, the miles you've walked haven't gone anywhere, they have simply gauged the distance travelled.
2006-10-19 17:30:10 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When i shave in the morning, i can clearly see what the past has done to me, and the day after when i shave again, the future has become the past !!
2006-10-19 17:31:08 · answer #8 · answered by african lion 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've always thought we travel through time and time being fixated. We, our awareness, when it stays in the present there is no past.
2006-10-19 17:26:31 · answer #9 · answered by guidedlight 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From the future to the past, in a straight line.
2006-10-19 17:26:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋