...this is buggin me...
like so maybe time is infinite...but when did it happen....
note:exclude religion
2007-02-07 03:13:33 · 17 answers · asked by J o h n 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
17 billion years ago in the big bang, about 4:30 in the afternoon.
2007-02-07 03:16:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question might ask "does time actually exist", before trying to pin a birthday to it...
"Is Time an Illusion? - Plato argued that time is constant - it's life that's the illusion. Galileo shrugged over the philosophy of time and figured out how to plot it on a graph so he could get on with the important physics. Albert Einstein said that time is just another dimension, a fourth one to go along with the up-down, side-side, forward-back we move through every day. Our understanding of time, Einstein said, is based on its relationship to our environment. Weirdly, the faster you travel, the slower time moves. The most radical interpretation of his theory: Past, present, and future are merely figments of our imagination, constructs built by our brains so that everything doesn't seem to happen at once.
Einstein's conception of unified spacetime works better on graph paper than in the real world. Time isn't like those other dimensions - for one thing, we move only one way within it. "What's needed is not to make the notion of time and general relativity work or to go back to the notion of absolute time, but to invent something radically new," says Lee Smolin, a physicist at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario. Somebody is going to get it right eventually. It'll just take time." - Erin Biba
2007-02-07 11:40:17 · answer #2 · answered by OlMacDude 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time is another dimension of the universe we live in. So, it was 'born' when the universe started. How it started is another question. It may have been the big bang, it may have been membranes colliding, it may have been....... and so on. No one is sure. I personally have a kind of belief in the big bang but can't prove it anymore than those who like the colliding membranes can prove it. And does it really matter in the long run? Time is as old as the universe and no older. And that is academic as well as it has no real effect on us.
2007-02-07 11:37:25 · answer #3 · answered by Elizabeth Howard 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You cannot exclude religion with this question. Time was born when God created the Heavens and the Earth. That was the Big Bang. Sorry but I have to disagree with Science on this one.
2007-02-07 11:26:36 · answer #4 · answered by freedomrings 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, contrary to popular belief, there is no such thing as time. There is only the rate of the movement of molecules which gives reality the appearance of having "time". It did not begin, thus it will not end.
What we are actually experiencing here, is the movement of energy and matter. (Matter is actually only energy at a lower frequency) We are not "inside" our bodies looking out into the world. We are actually, "outside" of the world looking into our own minds.
Einstein proved that "time" is affected by speed. (thus the frequency of the movement of molecules. He should have said, "The frequency at which atoms oscillate is directly related to their velocity.")
That is the reason why you cannot find an answer to that question. It's like trying to make potatoes by boiling rocks. No matter how hard one may try, potatoes are potatoes and rocks are rocks.
2007-02-07 11:24:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time is just a convenient construct invented my humans in an attempt to make sense of our perception that event A happened followed by event B.
Quantum physics says that matter, on it's most basic sub-atomic level, is probabilistic in nature. Indeed, they have shown that an individual particle of sub-atomic matter can exist in two places at the same ........ you guessed it....... time.
If time is not real, then this observation makes perfect sense.
Sorry, I'm out of time and have to go now.
2007-02-07 11:26:04 · answer #6 · answered by lunatic 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
October 23, 4004 BC, BISHOP USSHER DATES THE WORLD. religion aside by using the Bible he calculated when the world was created and thus started. and in so doing that is when time first started to be kept.
2007-02-07 11:23:25 · answer #7 · answered by shadow10262000 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time was before man first appeared, but was never limited to days, months, hours, seconds, weeks. Man invented the limitations of time. It was, and always will be...with, or without man.
2007-02-07 14:48:47 · answer #8 · answered by aidan402 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
good question. time was 'born' (invented shud I say, or discovered) when the human race 'learnt' to count or realised to watch the Sun move over the head in an orderly fashion... remember those Sun clocks ?
2007-02-07 11:24:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When Sheila walked from the bathroom to the living room and felt she had to explain herself to a Bloke
2007-02-07 11:19:31 · answer #10 · answered by Micheal A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋