would time itself end? If not, who will be the clock keeper?
2007-06-28 18:28:59 · 15 answers · asked by lifescircle 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Time is a part of the SpaceTime fabric of the Universe. It stays. We go. Only humans need clocks to keep time. Everything else is comfortable with ripples. : )
2007-06-28 18:45:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Time as we know it would end. Time is a human invention used to measure the events that pass in a certain period. If all humans were gone, animals would have no concept of minutes or hours in the way we think about it. However, all creatures have a sort of time-keeper system. Even before we understood hours we knew day and night and how much could happen in those periods of light and dark before it transitioned. So hours and minutes and things would end, but not the concept of time itself.
2007-06-29 02:01:57 · answer #2 · answered by Ava-Marie Germaine 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time does not require a keeper to exist. Who kept time for the first organisms to come into existence in the primordial ooze? Or before that? Maybe after that, Tyrannosaurus Rex kept time for the dinosaurs? Silly. One of the most ridiculous (yet fully necessary) things man does to keep this world working as it is, is to impose an artificial clock on the vast expanse of time. However, that neither validates or affects the reality of time itself.
2007-06-29 01:45:49 · answer #3 · answered by naniannie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, time would not end... but the word time will be gone. Time isn't just the hours on the clock. Time is also days, months, years and so on. And animals have their way of keeping time. They know when it is night and when it is morning. Don't forget about the biological clock.
2007-06-29 02:20:33 · answer #4 · answered by malevolentplushy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time won't end.
Time doesn't depend on the earth's rotation, it doesn't depend on the human civilization. Time is eternal, everlasting, infinite.
Time, is just a word for us to distinguish "it" to others, maybe in another "world/planet" it's called something else. If the human civilization where to end, time still ticks, if it were to end it doesn't mean the universe also ends, even if we're long gone the universe, stars and planets still rotates/revolves... and you ask "for how long will they do that?" and that would be "time"
clock keeper? wtf! you living in a fantasy?
2007-06-29 01:42:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No of course not, time is not bound by our meager human civilization. Our time is in itself based on the rotation of the earth. As long as the earth continues spinning, those who will live on earth will have a way of telling time.
2007-06-29 01:35:14 · answer #6 · answered by shadowhunter93 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no time never stops. it would keep going regardless of there being a clock keeper or not
2007-06-29 01:33:17 · answer #7 · answered by ♥ MISS YELLOW DIAMOND★☺♀ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time is a dimension of the time-space continuum. So long as there are events in the universe, even if they are the inanimate burning of stars, the circling of remaining planets or the crashing of asteroid, time continues.
2007-06-29 01:38:23 · answer #8 · answered by Michael 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
time would end for you, however species on other worlds time will continue. Time being kept in a format used by the creator of the timepiece.
2007-06-29 01:42:47 · answer #9 · answered by Carl P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For human civilisation time would end.What happens after that won't matter as nobody will be around to find out.
2007-06-29 02:46:01 · answer #10 · answered by ROBERT P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋