What is time? Will it ever end?

Question

Is time just a measurement created by man, or it real and mathematically proveable? According to Einstein's theory of General Relativity, time and space are the same thing, so is time really just a deception? When did time begin, if that is even possible?

Answer 1

does this mean we can delete Monday's?

Answer 2

Got Einstein wrong - time is a dimension of the space-time continuum.

Man sort of invented the concept of time. Actually he was just labelling periodicity.

Time is defined by the formula distance per unit of rate (d/r). if d->0, then t->0, When d=0, time does not exist. As far as the universe and our knowledge goes, this has happened only once. When the universe was born in an explosion called the big bang. As soon as d>0, then time began.

Answer 3

There could never have been a beginning whether you believe in god or you don't. I do believe in god. What I don't understand is that a lot of people who don't believe in god believe in evolution and the big bang theory. Okay, that is fine but where did the matter come from to form the big bang. Did it come from nothing, and if so how is that possible. Where did the nothing come from? Either way you look at it, something had to always exist, but then again how is that possible. It is not possible for god or anything evolution like to just start out of nothing but it had to right? Of course human's can't wrap their minds around this. But people that believe in evolution and not god - aren't you believing in the supernatural by believing in evolution? If so, isn't that godly?

Answer 4

Time is simply a tool of measure created by man to exist in this physical world. In reality, it is merely an illusion. Many theorize that time does not actually exist in linear form as we know it, but that's the only way we can percieve it in physical form. These same theories state that everything is actually happening simultaneously. Every possible outcome of every decision we are faced with, are all realities existing simultaneously. We have limited scope of perception, in the form of linear time, moving forward, to see one reality at a time.

Answer 5

Time as we know it from earths perspective are continous passing divisions of one day,which fall into segments of hours ,minutes and seconds, formerly measurements of time were based on the earths rotation on its axis, but this was found to be irregular. the second measurement was the standard unit or .SI unit of time. based on earths annual orbit round the sun.Then in 1967 in terms of radiation patterns of the element caesium. Then we had based on the Earths actual rotation, which was known as UT, Universal Time later changed to UTC Coordinated Universal Time, which was calculated by the difference between UT and UTC involving the addition (or subtraction) of leap seconds, on the last day of June or December. National Observatories in the UK, the Royal Greenwich Observatories makes standard time audibly available, and the BBCbroadcasts six pips at certain hours, (five short, from second 55 to second 59 and one long, the start of which indicates the precise minute..From1986, Greenwhich Mean Time was replaced by UTC. However, the Greenwich Meridian from 1884, remains that from which all longditudes are measured, and the worlds standard time zones are calculated. ETERNITY, however is out of this worlds comprehension or experience, out of the dimension of this earthly realm,into the realm if the Divine, incalculable, without measure or time , merely, one can imagine free joyous unlimited existance, without the stresses and strains, measured time places on the physical mind and body.So as to when time started, from Biblical reference to time having started , must have been the moment Adam and Eve disobeyed God because He warned them the penalty "if you eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, in that moment shall you die, well they did not die physically but prior to that earth was a Paradise like existence, so there would have been a state of eternal life, until the moment, almost like an invisible count down had started.PERHAPS that was when T I M E started, all the Prophecies seem to be very TIME significant.

Answer 6

Time is the constant movement of everything. It keeps moving forward, and move forward along with it. It started with the "big bang." Interestingly the big bang, an expansion, not an explosion, moves outward like a flat plate growing bigger in size. Because of this plate-shape, everything will continually move outward forever, so time will be forever.

If the expansion was like an explosion, it would go outward in all directions. Eventually the pull of gravity would pull the expansion back into itself, and then time would reverse back to the beginning of everything.

Thankfully, we are in a "plate-shaped" expansion, of which cannot pull back into itself.

Answer 7

Time is the soul of space. Yeah, they both end; it's called infinity.

1 = Space
0 = Time

1 / 0 = Infinity.


Good luck!

Answer 8

Now you're confusing two distinctly different matters by using a single commonality. On the one hand, you've asked about something which has both personal and communal perceptions : Time. Time in and of itself is a reflection of perception, failing to exist for any individual the moment in which they have all methods of percieving it removed. Day and night cease to exist when there is no external way to judge them... time becomes inconstant, passing based upon your own efforts to percieve it.
Time is defined by an agreed upon communal perception amongst humans where universal points of reference may be compared to find a mutually equitable judgement. A good example might be for you and I to judge 'time' by when an hourglass empties. While our own perceptions of time may not match, the hourglass is an agreed upon outside indicator of time which allows us to synchronize our definition of time.
This brings us to the last piece : Will it ever end. Time ends every time a creature dies. That creature's perception of time dies with it. Every time you go to sleep or loose track of time, it 'ends'. It then begins again when you take notice of it. You seem to be equating time with Entropy. Entropy is not simply a matter of perception. Things will die... decay and in general act in a mortal and finite manner. Perception is required to observe the process, but there is nowhere you can look where entropy cannot be reaffirmed. Entropy will never end except when there are no materials left to be unmade. Since the act of entropy does not simply unmake but rather simply reshapes, it could continue indefinitely in one form or another, regardless of the observers who may or may not bear witness.

Answer 9

time is theoretically part of the framework of our universe, until our universe fades into oblivion, time should always be around

there are a number of theories on time and space, all of which kind of make my head hurt.

Answer 10

if space and time are the same and time is not real not provable then so is space since time and space are the same. then all what you experience is just one single point where everything 'is'. i experience something else where is the flaw ?

Answer 11

Nice question Looking forward to see the answer.