Time is infinite, what will happen later?

Question

Just take a minute and look at your watch. Notice that as every second passes, it's lost forever. The entire world is moving in time.

My question is this:-
If time is forever, what will happen after humans die?
There will be a point in time where Earth becomes inhabitable. For example, all natural resources are used, too much pollution, the temperature rises so high that the north/south point ices melt and causes massive floods.

Is it true that when humans die, their memories are lost forever? Where do we go after that? Please consider the question carefully before answering. Your answer should not be religion bias.

Thanks for answering.
Upfront, I would like to clarify that this question is asked purely just for knowledge. I understand answers can be of the person going to heaven or hell. As much as I respect religious answers, I am more interested to see fact-based/scientific/personal-opinion answers.

To add to the question, imagine that life goes on forever, if a person pass away, his/her memories/knowledge ends at the time he/she dies.

Therefore, when you are alive, don't you ever think of what will happen in the future 100 to infinite years later? We don't live that long to find out. That is the reason why I said in the topic, time goes on forever...

Answer 1

You are assuming that humans will inevitably die off. Do you think that after thousands of years of surviving that we won't also find a way to survive global warming and pollution? We can find ways to fix both of those problems and many others. Yes the Earth will eventually become inhospitable, but that doesn't mean we can't leave it. We have space travel even now. Assuming that we will all die off, we can leave records. We don't have to be forgotten just because we are dead. That is true even today. That's what books, video, the internet, hard drives, DVD's, and other recorded media is for. Any satellites we launch into space will still be out there for millions of years (provided they aren't destroyed somehow). Who knows what we will be able to do in another fifty years let alone by the time the Earth is destroyed? We aren't all doomed.

Answer 2

It's not that simple - time and space are intertwined and really time is only a subjective impression that humans have. It's neither matter nor energy, so what *is* it?

One of the many mysteries of physics is the fact that subatomic particle interactions are time-reversable, that is they can go both ways and there is no preferred 'direction' of time. At some point on the way to larger objects, however, time takes on the direction that we think we perceive. Maybe there are two dimensions of time, forward and backward, but like matter and antimatter only one flavor is found in macroscopic events.

Who needs philosophy (or its retarded half-sister, religion) when you have physics!

As for memories, they require a living brain to exist, and at death they degrade and disappear along with everything else that was once a person. Someday enough people will accept this and we can stop all these pointless theological arguments (which often lead to wars) and do something useful with the time (whatever that is) which we have.

Answer 3

Nah, i don't believe that, or anything like it. Maybe because i have no watch. or maybe that's the reason i have no watch. i mean i'm not even sure of what you're asking, but i know i disagree.

you make assumptions. time is infinite. and yet every second that passes is lost forever? that makes no sense. if time is infinite then every second is infinite. you can't have it both ways. what is was, and always shall be. nothing is ever created and nothing is destroyed; this is an immutable fact.

I think you mean the earth will become uninhabitable. that the earth will go on but humankind will not. be that as it may. in the court of the gods, what has mankind done to earn immortality?

Answer 4

thanks for this question, i enjoy this stuff...

ok here goes. time is abstract. its made up by man, therefore when man has gone time has gone also.

space still exists. and so would time if the inforamtion regarding its properties(how it work) is passed on to other species(aliens maybe). even if its preserved in books its does notexist unless those books are read and undestorr by other lifeforms(should have said this instead o species)

this about it like this, if time did not exist then where would we be today? well most probbably in the same place we would just use a different mesuer ment for "time taken" like err. 'sprokety' (language from anothe planet)

think about time travel. we cant go back in time because if we did then we would not actually begoing back, as our timeline would still be going forward.if we went back in time we would be back where we started adn we would not know were had gone back as things would be as they were.

after humans dies things will keep going. hopefully it wont be soon, and things that exist now or in the future will still keep going. imagin we create robots, they will live on so with the earth. after millions of years assuming man and all his creations have gone then the wourld would eventually dye being consumed by the sun. other than that it would mostlikey just float arouns in space doing the things it does now. same as the other planets in our solour system(storms and stuff)

oh and when w die there will be nothing, when you die you die, thats the end. from what i understand your body will stop breating adn the electrick in your body will stop, your brain will dye (rot) and will nolonger exist, all your memories will be gon) when you dye you leave only your self in other peoples minds. hopefully things will change in the future and we will live longer or be able to save our minds and put them on other robotic or biLOGICAL bodies or vecels.

oh, and there is one other thing i would like to mention, we have a sex drive to keep the human species alive, i have only found one reason for this and thats because once were gone were gone.

hahaha. that was fun getting my thoughts out. that will live on in others now i hope.

Answer 5

Infinity is incomprehensible and it = 0. Physical things cannot exist in an infinity and neither can time because there's just no place to put them. Ask yourself this: Where am I currently located in infinity? In the 1st half, or in, the 2nd half, at the beginning or at the end. Answer: You're not in an infinity. Logically, our perception of time and existance must be just a creation of our minds.Time is not infinite, when humans die they return to the condition they were in before they were alive and the Earth and the human presence on it is insignificant.

Answer 6

yup: each individual will die, the societies will crumble, humanity will cease to exist, their memories lost for good, the earth will be destroyed (gone, not just uninhabitable).

nobody knows what happens after death, but you always have the option of having one hell of a time of your life. there's no loss.
if the religious are right, then you will exist in hell or purgatory, and if they were wrong then there is no afterlife and the universe ends with you (as far as your concerned) and there are no reprocussions!

now no more philosophy questions in Science section!!!!!@#%$!

Answer 7

much more of a philosophy question than a science question. truth is there is no real reason to say that time passes at all. it could be that everything happens at once and the we are only able to interpret it in some sort of linear way that gives us the feeling of time passing. the concept of time itself is way too abstract when you sit down and really take a look at it. sorry not too much of an answer b ut this question opens more boxes than it could hope to close.

Answer 8

Humans will die if there's no more natural resources cos we need food and water to survive.If human dies,we wouldnt have any memories but there's evidence that we were lived in earth years ago.To be optimistic,we all,humans will go to heaven.

Answer 9

But religious or not the truth is we either go to heaven or hell. If you think I'm wrong, what do I have to lose believing my way. You have an eternity in hell if you are wrong!

Answer 10

only time will tell....