Ok so what's your theory on time? Do you believe time to have a linear time line, straight line that is never ending, it continues on ad finitum. Or do you see time as limited. Like a roll of film on a tape, it plays up until a certain point and then just..stops. Or do you see time as more of a siclical, circular more, a never ending, repeating, cycle. What's your thoughts, theories.
2007-02-15 01:34:45 · 6 answers · asked by Game Guy 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Yes, i do belive that time is linear, and that it is never ending, it continues on ad finitum. However i also think that time has worm holes and dimensions...i may have watched too many science fiction movies in my lifetime for my own good...but i have to say that, although in the movies they may tend to exaggerate the possiblites a bit...alot of it does make sense..the possibilities of alternative dimensions i mean...which would put a whole new twist on the "form" of time... and you know if you think about it, if time really were like this straight line somewhere...then you should be able to travel to any specific location on it...and if all this were really possible and true..then i would have to say that i think time is a more or less a straight line..but with like an infinite amount of doorways giving access to each and every mili-second of everything that has happened in the past and is happening in the present. That being said though..i have to wonder.....looking at nature and how everything seems to have a balance, if time travel were truely possible into the past and then it should also be possible into the future...however if the future can be changed...then...the time line from the present to the future cant be linear..in fact it cant exist at all..cuz it can be changed to easily...and that just doesnt seem to fit with the rest of nature and how things seem to work in the universe..im not sayin there´s a perfect balance between everything..cuz from my experience..there really doesnt always seem to be one in life, but the possibilty of the "other side of the equation" so to speak, should at least exist...
lol ok i am kinda confusing myself here now haha...and im sorry if i went too much into time travel there...i was just trying to use it as an example as to why i think if time were linear, that it would be only be to a certain point (i.e. point where present meets future)..but that kind of confuses the theory of everything being infinite in the universe. So i guess honestly i dont really know whats true or how everything works...i just got a bunch of crazy theories is all. lol. :D
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And hey you know, i really enjoy talking about stuff like this, so if you do wanna discuss that question further or even this question, just let me know, i´d love to hear your thoughts. =)
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2007-02-15 04:22:18 · answer #1 · answered by Jaded 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For over 300 years or so, Newton's theory that time was a constant flowing at the same rate throughout the universe was shattered by Einstein's discoveries that the rate of time was determined by factors such as the gravitational field, accelleration and speeds approaching a significant percentage of light - in other words, time flowed at different rates for different observers depending on the reference. This isn't exactly intiutive and it forces one to ponder the question of what other charactoristics don't we know about time.
Terms such as "before," "after," and "in the beginning" may well be meaningless in other references.
The one thing we can be pretty much sure of is compared to universal events, our stint on this planet is but a blink of an eye. The universal constant of the speed of light has been confirmed and it only adds more support to the graphs which show a light cone as the only realm in which cause and effect can occur - and this is most probably as true as it gets. Even Einstein's formulas break down if we try and exceed this future - division by zero and the square root of negative numbers, for what ever those results mean.
I suspect that time will turn out to be a necessary part of all that exists - matter, energy and even our perceptions. Kind of like the tree in the forest sound riddle, would it exist at all if no one was experiencing events and assigning it to a dimension? After all, the eons of time before I was born passed in "no time" and eternaty after I die will do the same - as far as I'll be concerned.
Did it have a start? Will it suddenly just end? Can it only have one direction? Can we ever manipulate the time for our own convenience? I don't believe so - and I hate paradoxical questions such as "if it has a start, what took place before the start?" or, "If it ends, what will happen afterward?"
Well, I've succeeded in answering your question with more questions, and I believe that's about all we have at the present time - a lot more questions than answers.
2007-02-15 11:27:05 · answer #2 · answered by LeAnne 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Physics have traced the beginning of what has been suggested as physical time back to 10^-33 seconds after the big bang, known as Planck time.
The problem with time is that with no relation to anything else, time as an entity existing as it does within our universe could possible exist in a different way in a different universe where it's creation could create different laws of physics.
That being said, the older you get, the faster time seems to go. The more mundane an event, the more it seems to drag on, the more exciting, the faster the experience seems to be gone.
Planck length would suggest an unknown, finite, amount of time, (if there is a beginning it's logical there should be an end) where as theories that base time as a force outside of physics could perceive time as infinite.
2007-02-15 10:46:01 · answer #3 · answered by rock d 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes ,I do believe time to have a linear time line that is never ending,it continues ad finitum.
2007-02-15 09:45:24 · answer #4 · answered by Tuncay U 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that time continues as long as something happens. Theoretically, the universe will run out of energy to the point that even electrons will stop orbiting the nucleus of atoms and the temperature of the whole universe will be at absolute zero. At that point nothing will happen, and therefore time will stop.
2007-02-15 10:06:27 · answer #5 · answered by BRUZER 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time is a linear,finite entity.
It will eventually run it's course and then cease to exist.
It won't repeat,as some may think,when it stops it will cease exist,it is an incident that happens once and will never happen again.
2007-02-15 09:48:48 · answer #6 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋