If you point your finger to the sky, that direction goes on forever. It cannot end. Time could never have just started. It is infinite also. How can a human comprehend such things so mind blowing...? can anyone truly grasp the vastness of space and time...?
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2007-02-23 17:18:36 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
"Time and space are modes in which we think, and not conditions in which we live".
-Albert Einstein
You might be surprised to learn that time does not exist. It is a temporary illusion associated with this present physical world.
The same goes for distance.
Eternity is not a little bird picking up sand on a beach.
Eternity is not a continuous line of never-ending time.
Eternity is the absence of time.
When you die, you will immediately enter eternity. You will not be able to distinguish how long you have been there. You will not be able to tell the difference between 12 seconds or 87 billion years because there is no difference. Time does not exist and the illusion of time does not exist beyond this physical realm.
The illusion of time is constricting. It is a burden.
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2007-02-23 17:27:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time did not just start because it is a human construct. There is really no such thing as time...or direction for that matter.
2007-02-24 01:26:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Time is a relationship between events and change of state, the measurement of time is a human innovation, not a natural one.
2007-02-24 02:56:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
heres something to get you to think, if you have two infinitely small points, and line them up next to each other, whats their lenght? its still infinitely small...
And think of eternity like this. every 1 million years, a bird comes to the beach to pick one grain of sand off and comes back again in another million years. And for every grain of sand that the bird picks up, another one is washed up somewhere else on the beach.
2007-02-24 01:24:55 · answer #4 · answered by dave 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know I can't. I keep thinking of a wall or something that surrounds our Universe. Childish? Childish is to contradict anyone on an issue that nobody knows anything about. Anything AT ALL!
2007-02-24 01:24:49 · answer #5 · answered by mrquestion 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For your pleasure, we recently took a real picture of the real beginning of the Universe. Would you like to see it? : )
http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/03/0217
And, here's an atual recording of the static radio sounds of the noise or "Big Fizzle" of the beginning of the Universe.
http://encarta.msn.com/media_461543080_1741502444_-1_1/The_Sound_of_the_Big_Bang.html
And, here's an excellent article about new discoveries that were recently made about how the Universe "ends":
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101010625/story.html
2007-02-24 01:33:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's what cosmologists do and they have made great progress.
2007-02-24 01:22:43 · answer #7 · answered by Sir Richard 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋