2007-03-09 05:51:14 · 15 answers · asked by PØstapØc 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Yep. That is why we came up with the idea of lineal time.
It keeps thing from getting all confused.
Love and blessings Don
2007-03-09 05:54:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the distance between 3 and 2 is 1 right? but the number line is infinite. which means 3-2=0?
wrong
not everything happens instantaneously. relative to all of time? everything is zero. that doesn't mean it doesnt happen, though.
interesting thought though. like others have said, hard for the human brain to perceive O.O
2007-03-09 06:05:01 · answer #2 · answered by Jeffrey W 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Time is infinite, therefor-cannot be understood by the human mind, the true infiniteness of time. Its only your perception of past present and future, when really there is only NOW ands thats all there need be, so everything does start and end instantaneously, all the time...
2007-03-09 05:56:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time is a construct. Indeed many, if not most, of the experiences that this physical realm has to offer wouldn't mean much without time. Music, for example, without time, all of the notes would come out together, so add time, and voila ! a symphony.
A sunrise or sunset, no time ? Instant flash, or unflash, and that's it.
There are several constructs that we had to introduce in order for this realm to work, time, distance, gravity. None of them exist per se, mathematics has shown that negative time exists, physics has consistently failed to show the apparently inexhaustible and 2nd 'Law' (hehehehe) of Thermodynamics defying, 'source' of gravity's observable power.
We believe that we are either 'here' or 'there', but in real 'reality' we are everywhere, all at once. The mystery of the quantum particle in our neck of the 'Universe', which, changing it's polarity, causes it's 'twin' on the other side of the 'Universe', to change it's polarity simultaneously, i.e without the several billion light year's delay that Albert would have had us believe were necessary for such 'communication' to take place............and so on and so on.
When observed from outside this system it all makes perfect sense, from inside it can look a little weird. Imagine a roll of movie film, you know it's just one roll, but you also know that within it there could be a couple of hours of 'action'.
That's time. :-)))
2007-03-09 16:30:35 · answer #4 · answered by cosmicvoyager 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Start" and "end" are human inventions to keep track of the movement of things. "Time" is only humanity's way of keeping track of the distances between things as they move in relation to other things.
If the universe is infinite, then the inventions of start and end and time dont accurately describe nor even apply to the mass in the universe (The milky way, the sun, me).
What we percieve as an end or start is only a new manifestation of some of the infinite universe which was always there.
2007-03-09 06:05:39 · answer #5 · answered by The cat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no end with infinite,infinite means never ending or without end.
2007-03-09 05:54:39 · answer #6 · answered by Dfirefox 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not necessarily. I can not truly conceive of "infinity" but I can imagine a really really really long time. And order within that really long time. As long as there is "time" at all there is a separation of cause and effect.
2007-03-09 05:58:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can observe time Things don't all happen at once.
Observe the world around you.
2007-03-09 06:08:21 · answer #8 · answered by position28 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it would not because Time itself is wrong. Someone made up time and I bet it was not the correct time when they made it up for everyone. Time itself is an illusion.
2007-03-09 06:04:14 · answer #9 · answered by Nic 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe everything does happen at once, and time is only an illusion.
2007-03-09 06:27:33 · answer #10 · answered by Jabberwock 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋