what is your theory on how time works?

Question

In other words, what do you think happened before existence?All of existence, god believers even before him think way way back the beggining what could cause such an event.what does that say about our existence?and also, how does time work now how do we live in it?is there more than one universe?what happens to end us all?what happens after that?is there even free will?have you lost desire or are you looking for it?tell me your whole philosophy on all existence.and i mean philosophy not science i want know what you think not what youve heard just tell me after long thoughts over time what have you come up with to explain this matter remember use your mind.

Answer 1

Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once. Seriously, time is the means by which all potential can eventually become reality. Without time it would impossible for a candle to be both lit and unlit. It would be impossible for a person to be both young and old. It would be impossible for my water glass to be both empty and full. But time changes everything.

Time, space, and matter are interrelated because they all stem from the same basic "stuff" (which is not really "stuff" at all, but that's a long story). How do we know that time, space, and matter are all interrelated? Science tells us that matter is just "frozen energy." We have the technology to convert matter to energy and energy to matter, so there is not much doubt about the matter/energy unity. Einstein's relativity theories show us that time and space are just different manifestations of an underlying continuum. At really high energies, time and space lose their distinctness. Their underlying unity is revealed. Notice this already gives us a link between space, time, and energy, but I will mention another link as well. The vacuum of physical space is actually "pure energy". So in light of all this, what do we have? We have this: time = space = matter = energy. These are all just different modes of Being.

But you wanted philosophy, not science, so I will add this as well. I would claim that experience (the "what-it-is-like-to-be-ness" of Being) is also part of this fundamental unity. The meeting place for all of these seemingly distinct modes of Being is, I believe, the physical vacuum of "empty space", which I claim is also the Void of Buddhism, which also known experientially as "sunyata". The Void is the indeterminate realm from which all determinate experiences arise. It is therefore also the realm in which the unity of all beings (including the minds of all beings) is realized. On this theory, when we awaken to enlightenment, what's happening is that we are experiencing the original source of our being, which is Being Itself, which turns out to be nothing other than the vacuum of empty space. Thus our equation is expanded: time = space = matter = energy = experience. So what we experience as time in ordinary life is the what-it-is-like-to-be-ness of Being in the mode of changing from indeterminate to determinate.

You can think of it this way: All determinate existence emerges from the Void, which is fundamentally indeterminate. Time is what it feels like for the Void/Being to experience Itself "in transition" from indeterminate to determinate. I put "in transition" in scare quotes because the phrase implies that the transition takes place "in time" – like state A followed by state B – but this is misleading because this transition is the "creation of" time, not a process that takes place in time.

And finally, you asked what happened before existence, and of course the answer is "nothing". Since time itself is created in the process of existing, the concept of "before" does not really apply in the way that you want it to. This is why scientists and Buddhists both say that "time is an illusion." What they mean is that time "as we conceptually think about it in daily life" is not the same as time as we actually experience it non-linguistically. Time as we actually (non-conceptually) experience it is just a moment of Being. We do not experience past or future; we only experience NOW. We become confused because NOW typically includes as sense of past (e.g., memories) and future (e.g., expectations) and thus we live in an illusion of "having-been" and "yet-to-be." The experience of temporality is, of course, real, but this experience also instills an illusion because we cling to the sense of "having-been" and "yet-to-be" as if they are really "out there", when in fact they are just dream-like qualities of experience from which we can some day awaken.

Answer 2

To cover all of this would need a book!

Time is the fourth dimension of the universe we live in. Before the universe started, there was no time. Because time is woven into the fabric of the universe it can be affected just as the other three dimensions can and so it is not a straight line. Time is relative, actually the relative of the theory of relativity. It is different when you travel at different speeds and can be affected by something as small as the height of a tower because the top of the tower is actually traveling faster than the bottom. This causes the twins paradox. One twin remains on earth, the other travels at speeds approaching the speed of light. When he returns, he will be younger than his twin. Due to the warping of time, time travel may be possible, but that is only a may.

Our current perception of time as being part of the universe with no meaning beyond it is surprisingly like St. Augustine's view in the fifth century, that time only had existence while the world did.

Answer 3

i believe there's God who created this Universe... i also believe it's more believable to have faith in God than to trust some stupid theories in which they say about "big bang" and human been just evolved from primates... that's stupidity to believe you're some smarter monkeys !
What was before God ? well.. if you knew the answer what would help you ? or in what? may be after death you'll have that answer but it will be useless like it would be useless now..
free will.. yes! there is such thing... and only your own life can demonstrate you there is!
time.... just another problem... why should we be worried about time since we will die anyway one day ? so... don't think about time... let it pass because it will pass no matter what you'll do..
And.. a final answer.. what happens with us after death ? well.. everybody wants to know that but with to much impatience... In the final day of your life you like everyone else will die and will find out !
My advice : Don't waste your time in finding those answers because even if you will they won't ever help you. Just search a way to have a great and nice life !
God bless you!

Answer 4

my theory, we are just a litle dot in the the timeline of time billions and billions of years before and ahead of us. our lives r nothing but a split second. life may seem like it drags on forever, but 80 years on earth is a single point compared to the length of time that has already happened and that will continue on for billions and billions of years. i also believe that we each perceive something at an individual time seperate from everyone else, what i experience now someone else could have experienced already 20 years ago, but it appears as though everyone is on the same watch but i don't think so. i think most of our lives r already over but we just haven't gotten up to the point where we perceive it. we could all be dead right now and don't even know. i know it sounds crazy and it's hard to follow because i'm trying to squeeze a long drawn out theory into a few sentences but this is just the outline of my theory, there is much more to it than what i've posted

Answer 5

Philosophically, time is a human construct. If we didn't have some way to measure, time would be a continuum without any definition. Everything would be happening - now. The ultimate first event to the final event would be simultaneous. Indeed, we could not even sequence anything.

As for your other questions they require some science and you precluded that. So, the answers are unknowable.

Answer 6

well time is only relevent to the individual

fact....snails move slow but to a snail it move right along because it has a different perspective on time.

Humans feel that we have a good long life,

your dog only lives 15 yrs but to the dog that is an entire life... the dog dosent feel like he is 15 human yrs old and then to meet the end

time is relevent, so before existence there was no time because there was nothing to experience time... time by its nature has to be relevent

Answer 7

Our physics, as we know them, are almost impossible for human brains to understand (quantum mechanics, tunneling, etc...) Given that before the big bang, all of the 4 fundamental forces were combined into one, I have no possible way of conceiving what cause and effect were like at that "time". Sorry.

Answer 8

With out referring, I can explain and can give you answers for all your questions. Sorry I can not. The depth of your question so huge, even 80 GB space of my PC, is very small to take it. From origin of earth to present 21 st Century, it is impossible via Internet. You have to refer books and lot of books, at least for another one year.

Answer 9

I do not have the time nor the knowledge to answer all that.
But I can say that my theory on human perception of time is something akin to a logarithmic progression of time, as detailed in the website I will put as my source.

Answer 10

Time moves forward because the universe is expanding. Why it's expanding instead of collapsing I don't know. Anyone that claims to know that... well let's say, they must need to feel like they know everything for one reason or another.