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How come we haven't found it out yet, or is it just our perception on things, because we always ask "What came before that"? AND can time itself be disproved, because all the past is is our memory, and the future hasn't happened yet, and if it had no beginning how could it exist? To anyone who says there was a beginning of time and time does exist, well how do you know there was a beginning if you don't know when it was, if it at all did begin.

2007-01-27 13:29:56 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Physics

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No. We will figure out the answer to many things, but we will never be absolutly certain of when time began.
Our individual existence is nothing without the events, people and places we experience.
Time has been given to you only temporarily, so enjoy.

2007-01-27 14:01:38 · answer #1 · answered by highlander 5 · 0 0

For over 300 years, Newton's time was a constant - a smooth and steady continuum throughout the universe - progressing forward at a constant rate equal everywhere.
And then Einstein had to pee in Newton's corn flakes. Time is variable - it runs at different rates depending on gravity, acceleration and speeds approaching that of light. Time actually stops at the speed of light! (What ever the hell that means.) Time and space are intertwined in a complex game of varying rates, depending on the observer.
It is often said that the concept of "before" has no meaning when we speak of the big bang, since time is suppose to have started then. If this is true, and we know the approximate acceleration and distances of the objects in space, we can wind the whole thing backward and get an approximate "beginning" of time.
I can't speak for you, but I find it impossible to imagine the concept of no time or time that has stopped. No time to me means no existence - of anything. No cause and effect, no movement, complete and utter nothingness.
Nope, I can't buy into it.
In my opinion, time may vary according to an observer, but it must exist or absolutely nothing else does.
No beginning and no end, simple as that, just to satisfy my simple mind.

2007-01-27 23:20:04 · answer #2 · answered by LeAnne 7 · 0 0

It's our perception. We hold mass and dimension as constant in order to experience time as moving in one direction only. (I find personally that I can understand that thought for a fleeting glimpse only before it disappears into my blind spot, but stay with it). If we could cease doing these things we'd be able to perceive time as moving in more than one direction. But I think that only people whose minds are extraordinarily elevated and practised can move with ease within this concept - as opposed to seeing the sense of the equations but not really experiencing it 'in here.'

2007-01-27 21:38:48 · answer #3 · answered by mrsgavanrossem 5 · 0 0

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