What is the opposite of time?

Answer 1

Awesome question. To ask what is the opposite of time you have to ask what is time, and that is not easily answered.

Time is to some extent a construction of the human mind. Our minds interpret the universe in a certain way and to us time is a flowing continuous movement from the past into the future: As an example take this definition from http://www.spacetoday.org/Time/TimeExplained.html

"Time is a human perception defined as the length of an interval separating two points on a nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future. The intervals are measured in seconds, minutes, hours, days, years."

At the level of theoretical physics and mathematics time has different meanings but even physicists have difficulty with time as this liitle joke illustrates: A man who has lost his watch walks up to a stranger on the street and asks, "Please, Sir, what is time?" The stranger replies, "I'm sorry, you'll have to ask a philosopher. I'm just a physicist."

There are many unanswered questions regarding time. for example:

1) Did time exist before the Big Bang? (In other words did time have a beginning?)
2) Does time move smoothly and continuously?
3) Does time move in only one direction (the "Arrow of Time")?

Here is the best article I could find that defines time in a scientific sense: http://www.thekeyboard.org.uk/What%20is%20Time.htm

Given what is stated there I'm not certain we can truly define time, so perhaps for the opposite of time we must turn to some Zen philosophy and simply state that the opposite of time is no-time.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

Simultaneity is the opposite of time. Time being what keeps all things from happening at the same time.

Answer 5

The opposite of time is life going backward because life can only be lived forward. If you want to see all the decisions made in your life along with your painful mistakes, and if you want to relive every moment backward, that is the opposite of time. I think you should worry about how you're spending your precious time now and not think about the opposite of time. It's your greatest commodity and use it wisely.

Answer 6

The universe is still expanding, and that is time for us, to our knowledge, a progression, and forth movement, a cycle.
So, the opposite of time is actually nothing, literally, nothing because to have time we need an event and this event (big bang) is still happening.
We then could argue about the theories of black holes which tend to suck, reverse time/light, but that is a whole different realm....

Answer 7

Time. Time is irrelevant, because we created it for our benifce.
Techinacally, there would be no opposite of time, since what we create, is not true. Matter was not created, we discoveredd it.You may want to study a few books or a movie that Steven Hawkins narrates.

Answer 8

Opposite of time ?
Maybe just the void

Answer 9

The opposite of time is growth (positive or negative) unlimited by time. Everything in the universe would continue to grow (or regress) infinitely. You could say that at some point in time, that would have to stop. However, if the growth (or regression) is not limited by time....

Answer 10

The opposite of time is eternity. Eternity is transcendental to the concept of time, in that it has no beginning, and no end, nor middle. There is no line on which eternity can be measured.