2006-12-26 08:19:10 · 25 answers · asked by drunken pumpkin 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I cannot fathom the fact that there is an opposite of time. Eternity, infinity...these are accumulations of time, not an opposite. It is like God having no beginning and no end. Can we as humans possibly comprehend such a fact? When you think about it, time is man-made. Nothingness and void, as previously mentioned, are not necessarily immune to time. Who makes such a determination? I think you just blew my mind.
2006-12-26 08:35:06 · answer #1 · answered by Diesel Weasel 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Your question is making my brain hurt! Is there an antonym for TIME?! What would the opposite of time be? Timelessness? That just means things don't go out of fashion. It still exists in time. The void. Still exists in time. Death? Time still goes by? Eternity is just limitless time.
There is no opposite of time...if there was a big stopwatch God was holding & he suddenly pushed it & we all were frozen in suspended animation then that would be the opposite of time. Freezing or stopping time. But then that's not really the opposite of time.
Space and time...space isn't the opposite of time, is it? No.
I don't know, man. Good question. Now I have a headache! Time for ibuprofen! I've been sitting at work trying to kill time, noticing how time drags on when you're not having fun and now I'm sitting here pondering what is the opposite of time...what is time anyway? The measure of our lives, the structure of our days. The lack of time would be its opposite but where is that, in the afterlife? Or was it before time. Before God created the world. (Or before the big bang if that floats your boat). The abyss. The nothingness before time was measured.
2006-12-26 08:40:08 · answer #2 · answered by amp 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, since they say time is money, then I imagine debt would be the opposite of that. But I think time, in and of itself, can have no opposite because you can never have a negative amount of time. Even if you say, Oops, this report was due five minutes ago, time was still ticking away at five minutes ago as well. Anyway, good question. I look forward to seeing what other people say.
2006-12-26 08:22:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The closest I think I can come to answering this is "suspended animation" but I am not sure if that could ever exist, or if it would just halt the progression of time, not be its opposite. I'll enjoy letting this question rattle around in my head for a while. Great Question!!
2006-12-26 09:57:47 · answer #4 · answered by BANANA 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would venture to say that Einstein
would have said that the opposite of time is travel at a rate of speed equal to that of light so that time itself would stop and reverse itself. I don't know if this is the opposite of time exactly but it is the opposite of time as we know it.
2006-12-26 08:41:15 · answer #5 · answered by Adrienne G 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that's like saying what is the opposite of an orange. time is the same going backwards and forwards. timelessness is just the absence of time.imagine that time is a sphere, step outside it, look at the birth,growth and end of our universe in that sphere. can you think what would be the opposite of that? i can't, perhaps it's just beyond me. if you find an answer let me know.
2006-12-26 11:08:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The opposite would be something that opposes it, 'anti'-time.
So, for a prisoner doing 'time' it might be parole. For most of us, perhaps accumulated memories - regrets, triumphs, etc. - take the place of time. If you have time on your hands a task might take it from you, or if you have a certain amount of time to get something done, any distraction eats away at that time. If you are aware of time passing, being absorbed in something (in 'flow'), cancels that awareness. If you measure time, anything that disrupts your measurement system disrupts 'time'.
The question and its answers so far make me realize that time comes in many flavours and meanings so it has many opposites.
2006-12-26 09:42:06 · answer #7 · answered by Eclectic_N 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Time is a dimension, just like length, width, and depth. And like the other dimensions, there is no "opposite", just negative and positive with respect to the viewer. However, they are either present or not present. So the opposite of the presence of time is, like the other dimensions, zero.
2006-12-26 09:09:51 · answer #8 · answered by freebird 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Death is the opposite of time.
2006-12-26 09:27:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
E M I T
“There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.”
“A little help at the right time is better than a lot of help at the wrong time.”
“Time is what prevents everything from happening at once”
2006-12-26 08:39:54 · answer #10 · answered by ••Mott•• 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋