Does Time exist?

Question

If god has been around forever..than time never began and if he is around forever than time will never end...

Answer 1

Time is a human made element made to help organize humans lives. time is not a force of nature and does not really exist.

Answer 2

A comedian would say, "Yes, time exists... but just for a second!"

It keeps changing, that's the point.

But, everything keeps changing.

An old Greek philosopher wrote that you cannot step into the same river TWICE. Some people say you cannot even step into the same river ONCE. It just keeps rolling... .

Same "thing" with TIME.

Now you know why Buddhists say that there is no "self": we just keep changing, so what or where is a fixed nugget or kernel of us?.

Einstein has a different "take" on Time: under some conditions, things in the universe behave "space-like", and under other conditions, they behave "time-like". Space and time seem almost convertible.

We can say that time exists, but I still don't think we have the bottom-line on it.

Our civilization and science is just so, so young, yet, that's why. But, that's good! There's lots to do, still, and lots to discover. Imagine if we "knew it all:" phooey! That would be boring.

--Desert Woodworker / Tucson

Answer 3

The Big Bang was not an explosion in the conventional sense-it was an explosion of space itself, and the beginning of time. The theory does not and cannot attempt to explain what came "before", since time and space did not exist. Time is simply a perception for man. The universe and time can end if gravity is stronger than the force imparted by the big bang, so expansion slows to a halt and reverses. The universe grows denser and hotter, and collapses back into a singularity.

Answer 4

time is something we humans make up to help ourselves. There is no line of time that stretches behind us that is the past. There is simply what's going on right now. We us time to help organize the past and future in our minds. Imagine how hard it would be to remember past events if you didn't know when they occured or keep track of future commitments if you didn't know when they were going to take place. But time just is, it's right now, we just give it a name and divide it into minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, etc. to help us understand. God, like time, just is so it makes since for him to have been around forever. no matter how hard we try we can never fully comprehend this fact because our minds are limited, but we'll understand once we get to heaven.

Answer 5

God created this universe with its physical laws, including time. Time can be looked at as a one way spatial dimension. In fact Einstien and Quantum Physics pretty much have mathmatically shown that it is the case. But God lives ouside of time much like an artist lives outside of his work of art.

Answer 6

Time seems to be a function of our earth rotating around our sun. (Year) Since time equals 1 orbit around our sun, everything else follows by the rotation of the earth on it's axis 24+hours, a day.
Leave our solar system and time becomes dependent on supplies dwindling and life support ends time for those contained in the (ship)

Answer 7

Time doesn't exist. It's just our belief in it that does.

Look at the stars in other galaxies. They don't have "days" based on the sun revolving around the earth.

Answer 8

Read about Quantum Mechanics enigma
http://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Enigma-Physics-Encounters-Consciousness/dp/019517559X

Can you believe that physical reality is created by our observation of it? Physicists were forced to this conclusion, the quantum enigma, by what they observed in their laboratories. Trying to understand the atom, physicists built quantum mechanics and found, to their embarrassment, that their theory intimately connects consciousness with the physical world. Quantum Enigma explores what that implies and why some founders of the theory became the foremost objectors to it. Schrodinger showed that it "absurdly" allowed a cat to be in a "superposition" simultaneously dead and alive. Einstein derided the theory's "spooky interactions." With Bell's Theorem, we now know Schrodinger's superpositions and Einstein's spooky interactions indeed exist. Authors Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner explain all of this in non-technical terms with help from some fanciful stories and bits about the theory's developers. They present the quantum mystery honestly, with an emphasis on what is and what is not speculation. Physics' encounter with consciousness is its skeleton in the closet. Because the authors open the closet and examine the skeleton, theirs is a controversial book. Quantum Enigma's description of the experimental quantum facts, and the quantum theory explaining them, is undisputed. Interpreting what it all means, however, is controversial. Every interpretation of quantum physics encounters consciousness. Rosenblum and Kuttner therefore turn to exploring consciousness itself--and encounter quantum physics. Free will and anthropic principles become crucial issues, and the connection of consciousness with the cosmos suggested by some leading quantum cosmologists is mind-blowing. Readers are brought to a boundary where the particular expertise of physicists is no longer a sure guide. They will find, instead, the facts and hints provided by quantum mechanics and the ability to speculate for themselves.

Answer 9

God isn't supposed to be inside of time at all, I thought.

I think you could say that time exists.

Answer 10

Yes, but not as a separate thing from Space. That's why it's called "Space/Time". Time is just an interval of movement of space.

How we measure time is just a contrivance for our 'convenience'. It's pretty arbitrary.