My question is a general question and has nothing to do with just our earth. This is kind of like asking if there is a starting point and an ending point in our universe.
2006-12-17 12:24:20 · 11 answers · asked by PeripateticNomad 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
It depends on what you mean by time. As a dimension, time began at the big bang when the universe is thought to have been a singularity (a single, 0-dimension point). I believe there was another universe prior to the big bang and what actually occurred was a sort of 'big bounce.' Either the previous universe retracted to a point and bounced outward, or another theory based on quantum geometry which I won't get into.
If you want to describe time as beginning with the big bang - then yes, I think there will be an end. Either the universe will retract back into a singularity, or it will meet the same quantum geometric end I brought up already.
Time is a tricky thing to ponder. It's got an entirely man-made meaning. But it's also a dimension as the three spacial ones you're aware of.
I suggest you read up on special relativity.
2006-12-17 12:30:50 · answer #1 · answered by dgbaley27 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In my opinion, neither the Bible nor the Big Bang theory answer this question. I think it was only recently considered that time or space might have had a beginning. The Big Bang theories extrapolate the expanding universe to a single, extremely dense spot of mass and/or energy. But it says nothing about the source of this dense spot.
Will time or space come to an end? This is a separate question, and we have even less of a basis for answering this one than whether they had a beginning. If anyone has a definitive, rational argument, let's hear it!
2006-12-17 17:42:35 · answer #2 · answered by Frank N 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Big Bang Theory says that at the point of explosion, called Singularity, the universe was infinitely dense at a single point for a brief (i.e. 10 to the -50th power seconds) time. During that "time" there was the beginning of time. Hence, before that point there was nothing, and no time. That was the beginning.
Some physicists think that there is a perpetual cycle of contraction and retraction of the universe into Singularity, ad infinitum. Each successive cycle might last 20 billion years or so. Take your pick. No one KNOWS.
2006-12-17 12:33:08 · answer #3 · answered by Nathan L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes there is a beginning to time, Einstein traced time all the way back to the first few seconds, before that there was some kind of explosion which created the universes, it is know as the Big Bang theory. According to the theory everything is still expanding out from the center point, no one knows how far it can expand but think that once it has reached the farthest point out it will stop then begin to move back towards the center again. Einstein is considered to be a total genius so......................?????????????
2006-12-17 12:37:59 · answer #4 · answered by Angelz 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God has no begging. God consistently has been, thus he's eternal or eternal. Genesis a million:a million interior the begging God created the heavens (the shy and Heaven) and the earth. Genesis a million:2 The earth became without style, and void; And the Spirit of God became over the face of the waters. Now god made Heaven to be the eternal homestead for His infants and Hell to be the eternal homestead for devil. God made guy physique, soul and spirit; and He (God) breathed into the physique the breath of existence and guy grew to enhance right into a living soul. Now you will stay ceaselessly ether in Heaven or Hell. for the reason which you will stay as long as God has breath. And dying does not propose termination, it ability suppuration. Suppuration of the physique and the soul the defined interior the bible because of the fact the 1st dying, mutually as the 2nd dying is suppuration of the soul from God. that's the 2nd dying that sends one to Hell.
2016-12-11 11:07:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
come on what kind of question is that.?Don't you have a beggining and a end to your life?You were born weren't you?and you going to die eventually so YES there is a beginning and end to all things..DUH even the earth began somwhere(I sopose Eden that's what I 'm told)ha-ha but has anyone found it?The world is going to end also but I don't know when so I can't speak on that one...
2006-12-17 12:34:00 · answer #6 · answered by gblue52 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
a heavy question deserves a heavy book...it might not answer all your questions and might even bring up some more, but it's called "Genesis Revisited" by Zecharia Sitchin, and no, it's definitely not a bible book. If you read it you'll know why.
2006-12-17 12:33:42 · answer #7 · answered by ☠orcelina☠ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Genesis tells us that time has a beginning and Revelation tells us that time has an end. Pretty interesting reading. Consider it.
2006-12-17 12:33:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Theories abound - however, the fact is - no one knows.
It's a good question and one that has plagued us for generations and will continue to plague us for generations to come.
2006-12-17 12:53:40 · answer #9 · answered by LeAnne 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
there is no such thing as time if there is an absence of matter. matter is have had to be created by the big bang theory (GOD) at which time began. time will never end as long as matter is present
2006-12-17 12:36:41 · answer #10 · answered by rkrause03 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋