assume for a moment that time is circular. if time is circular, wouldn't that mean that eventually, man will invent everything that it is possible to invent, and we'll have to start from scratch?
2007-02-05 12:24:31 · 19 answers · asked by kelleygaither2000 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Cyclical. All things are cyclical.
Human Civilization is cyclical. Metal bracelets and what appear to be modern spark plugs have been found inside coal mined from beneath the earth's surface. This can be verified and supports your "theory."
Hinduism teaches that the age of a civilization from darkest ages of intelligence to mastery of the physical realm and back to darkness takes about 24,000 years. You were not the first to consider this.
2007-02-05 12:39:23 · answer #1 · answered by Still Alive 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, if time was circular man would invent everything it is possible to invent, if only just because at some point time would recycle preventing further advancement. And to continue on a circular time line, everything that happened before would happen again in exactly the same way at exactly the same time on the line. A circular time line would imply a finite set of events in a precise sequence with no possibility of deviation.
2007-02-05 21:07:41 · answer #2 · answered by MrNobody7 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am happy to see that some people take their time to think and come up with theories about this thing that we call "the Universe". Here's what I thought about your theory when I read it:
Well, it's not a new one. The idea of being trapped in a time loop is an old one and it has already been "portrayed" in countless books and movies. The idea of an entire Universe (or planet) being trapped is, also, not that new, but it is not very common.
Now, about the theory itself: time IS circular, but not in that way. It goes in circles and it goes up, at the same time. Yes, I have just described a spiral. And there's enough evidence for that, all you have to do is to look into the history of this planet. Everything comes and goes and comes again, but at different levels. It is not my theory, it is an old one and it was so well said by W.B. Yeats in one of his poems ("Turning and turning in the widening gyre/The falcon cannot hear the falconer..."). Anyway, you were close.
2007-02-05 21:04:02 · answer #3 · answered by mrquestion 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think in a sense that time is circular but I can't see us starting from scratch because even if everything has been invented we still have those inventions to use. Unless something occurs which destroys civilization & we lose it all...but even then we still wouldn't be starting from scratch because we would retain the knowledge we have gained over the years & would be able to rebuild everything.
2007-02-05 20:33:40 · answer #4 · answered by amp 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that eventuallywe will become dependant on some new invention or other and no one will ever invent anything new. Then 100 years or so later there will be some sort of disaster and we will have to reinvent everything from what little everyone knew about the past and humanity will slowly build itself up for another great fall. So I think it goes sort of strait at first then starts going in a circle.
2007-02-05 22:55:29 · answer #5 · answered by hen_pow99 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By saying that "time is circular" i am assuming you mean "time is repetitive and in a constant loop". In saying this, you're saying that this means that at one point in time, we will start over and forget everything that has ever happened, for we will have "started over" and "gone back in time".
By your standpoints, i believe you would be correct in that we will eventually invent everything, but it will be all erased and we will have to start again.
2007-02-05 20:30:51 · answer #6 · answered by adamizer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well... time is relative. But technically man could (and probably will) exhaust the creative process and invent everything, but for things to repeat there would have to be a complete wipe of everything that has ever happened. Not even the mass extinction of the dinosaurs (by whatever the hell killed them) would compare. I think it is possible, but unlikely; and either way, we will never live to see the end of time. (I like parentheses~)
2007-02-05 22:27:35 · answer #7 · answered by Radgar E 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. If time were circular when we reached the end, whether or not everthing possible had been invented, time would begin again.
2007-02-05 20:30:18 · answer #8 · answered by Sophist 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What you're trying to say is that history will repeat itself. Once all the countries decide to go at it for whatever reason, there could be some bombs going off that wouldn't help mankind. I'd be surprised if the human race still existed 100 years from now.
2007-02-05 20:41:15 · answer #9 · answered by Yuffie K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with your prediction, based on your assumption. It will be like continuously playing a movie. Once the movie is at the end, it will repeat again.
But no one can say time is circular or linear because we are living in it or along with it.
2007-02-05 20:37:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋