Space & Time?

Question

1. When did time begin? Was it when matter first formed in the universe? Or doesen't it exist?

2. Is it possible that the fabric of space itself can rip? Where would the tear go? A different dimention?

3. Will time will never end?

Answer 1

Buddy, your query holds weight in all of its concern, yet to monotonous these days to my knowledge. Since I have soothed such a query in past, I am withdrawn to another fabrication. Yet my previous answers weaved in a way can subside your curiosity as well. Consume a chunk of your time reading it. It may also answer your other questions: -

The concept holds itself in such an abstruse enigma, that centuries have failed to decipher its existence in a logical form. Scores of fiction writers have sculpted sci-fi books upon the behavior of time. We all have speculated over the so-called ‘Time Travel’ and have rummaged over the numerous possibilities that it may offer.

For the sweet sake of knowledge, once in a while, just sit down and think over the existence of time. When one questions ‘What is life?’ one is indirectly doubting his flow in time. Sometimes, time bears mercy upon you and hastens up, yet at other times, bestows upon you the curse of its viscous flow.

Yet, in reality what WE call time, is nothing but a theoretical fabrication that we, humans have crafted so as to better understand this “Fourth Dimension”. We assume we recognize time and its workings, yet mark my letters, we know absolutely N-O-T-H-I-N-G. We mortals imprint everything that we perceive in our brain, and then we analyze over it, yet never in its crude form. We find ourselves confined to the rigid boundaries of our senses. We bear to our knowledge the sphere of our vision and touch.

The notion bears itself in utmost simplicity. We can only conclude on matters we are able perceive in a correct mannerism. We do not bear such a sense organ nor are we able to implement over 4% of our brain, so as to perceive the concept of time in a proper ideology. Therefore we cannot chisel a concept concrete enough to bear the yoke of our questions.

We foolish mortals don’t even have the ability to measure time in its proper state. The state of time is always subjected to our memory, thoughts, personality, the circumstances, and innumerable other factors. You can’t even correspond two events in the same mannerism! Fragments from your memory are always erased, resulting to the unjustifiable way in which we perceive time.

Yet we can ALWAYS speculate! And we HAVE speculated! In such speculations, we have come to many ways to understand time. Scientists were entangled in similar doubts, yet they fashioned a theory that best satisfied the debatable world of ‘Philosophical Physics’. The theory states that time is completely relative to the individual who experiences it and furthermore a relationship exists between the three basic dimensions of space and time, leading to the birth of the space-time ideology. (I swear they stole the idea from me!)

Another speculation (Fasten your seatbelts for a Psycho Ride!). Suppose time is a fabric. (A complete supposition) A vast expanse of infinite non-molecular material. This fabric is existent yet not perceivable by our limited senses. If we are to possess a way to make a ‘cut’ in this fabric, we CAN gain access to two different periods in time. But then again, that is theoretical, and humanly impossible.

So far we have considered time to be a concept in whose relation we all exist. But in technical truth, time is relative to every individual! What we consider time is the manufacture of us mortals. What if time exists independently for everyone? When one perishes, he actually repeats his so called 'life'. Perhaps the period from the Big Bang to the collapse of the universe has repeated itself millions of times already! There is no telling, for there is no concrete platform, to which we can relate existence. We just have to relate everything to everything else!

Now those are speculations. No one can state them correct or incorrect, for one does not bear a perception that great. Perhaps we are just the play-stuff of a superior colossal existence. Then again, what is existence?

Answer 2

1. True, time began with the big bang. Theories of continuous big bangs followed by a rebounding big crunch throw a wrench in that, though. Is time then restarted after every crunch/bang or is their another way to time things on the quantum level? Tricky, but for now, it started with the Big Bang.

2. If space has a fabric, it may well be possible to rip, but we have never observed this and don't have any basis for answering such a question. All we have for now are possibilities, like: String Theory postulates space-time may have strings, dimensions and tiny Planck-length "holes" 10^-32 centimeters in size wrapped up in them. Perhaps that's what happens to a black hole. The gravity of an object on this "plane" becomes so severe, that the objects collapse to an "infinitely dense" point isn't infinitely dense at all, just smaller than Planck-length and it falls through...into another dimension? Possibly.

3. See #1. Dependant upon the existence of the universe.

Answer 3

1. There was, at least, a significant discontinuity in time 13.7 billion years ago, at the time of the Big Bang. Our current physics lets us "run the clock backwards" to a time about one femptosecond after the Big Bang, and then our knowledge of physics fails, so we have no realistic idea about what happened before.

2. No. The idea of the "fabric of space" is a poetic, science-fiction idea that has no real meaning in physics. The speculative theory of "branes" may perhaps be described in this way, but such theories have no observational or experimental basis.

3. Probably not. Our Universe seems to be entering a phase of exponential expansion. We have no reason to expect it will ever end. On the other hand, we don't understand the reasons for that exponential expansion ("Dark Energy"), and so it could surprise us. Some unknown phenomenon could cause an end of time---how would we ever know?

Answer 4

Nobody knows, for sure, when time began. For our concern, it started with the Big Bang. At that point, there was no matter at all, just unimaginable amounts of pure energy. It took some time for everything to cool down enough for elementary particles to form.

2 The fabric of space/time is already torn, in lots of places, people call them Black Holes and we have little concept of what happens on the other side.

3 Time could concievably end, for all intents and purposes, if there is enough matter in the universe to reverse expansion and cause The Big Crunch. This might trigger another Big Bang and time may go on then, but nobody in this universe will know about it.

Answer 5

1) they say the universe expanded from the big bang and we are awaiting the big crush it could be a never ending cycle of it expands from its own destruction and is pulled back by the vacuum of space
2) if the fabric of time and space were to rip the universe would possibly destroy itself by becoming pressurised
3) i think the same time just keeps repeating itself

Answer 6

Space and time had to begin with a single space-time pulse.
This must be a fact.
After that everything is pure speculation!

Answer 7

Space & time had beggun after big bang

Answer 8

time began with the universe
time will end

Answer 9

time began at the beginning of the big bang. Scientists can't even thoerise what was before it, so they don't even consider it, to mind warping for me!!

Answer 10

if believe in the M-universes then time in our reality only came into being when this universe appeared, and will disappear when our reality ends..