is time infinite,has it no beginning and no end.?

Answer 1

The Big Bang did not create the beginning of time. Time existed before the Big Bang and will continue to exist long after the Big Bang is forgotten. Unless there is a God. If there is, then, "Sorry God, I didn't mean it."

Answer 2

The answer to this question is unknowable. Since the initial beginnings of the universe (if you believe Big Bang) compress time and matter so much, science cannot calculate what happened in the first few fractions of a second in the universe.

Therefore there's no way to know if the universe exploded from nothing, which most of science believes is against all the tenets of science (namely the law which states "matter comes from matter") and thus impossible, though some more spiritually inclined people would think this is a proof that a God exists to create the first matter (IE, time).

An alternative theory which some have advanced is that the big bang followed a period of contraction, and that the universe basically contracted back to a point, and that the universe is infinitely expanding and contracting.

Either way, both theories are pretty mindblowing.

Answer 3

yes - time is an indefinite continuous duration regarded as a dimension. A definite portion of that dimension on the other hand is finite e.g. 20 minutes from 12 noon.
If as some allege time began at the big bang then what existed before the big bang?
Time like human imagination has no limits. In some ways it is analgous to the circle line - it has no definitive start and no definitve end. Our lives consist of getting on at one station and getting off at another. The station represents a given moment in time and the train represents our known universe. The events on that train can never be repeated and like our universe can be terminated.

Answer 4

Currently, all discussion of time is hypothetical. We cannot even accurately measure time, we can only observe certain physical processes. Just as the Big Bang itself is debatable, the idea that time began with the Big Bang is even more debatable. Physics does not have a valid theory of time.

Einstein's idea that time is the fourth dimension works fine in mathematics, but in the real world or the QM world, applying that is often neglected. Even the best papers on time are very vague and hopeful. Since we can only observe the present, we have no idea what other parts of the "time-line" are like.

Answer 5

That is correct. The beginning of time cannot be identified because of a total lack of reliable witnesses. The rumour of a big bang is largely discredited since nobody could have survived such an occurrence and therefore couldn't report it! One new theory suggests that instead of a big bang, there was a quiet thwud. If this was true, someone could have witnessed it, but if they were playing cricket, the event might well have passed unnoticed.

The end of time is trickier. There are rumours that since we will be able to travel through time by the time time ends...we should be able to witness it pretty well any time we choose!
This is of course any time that exists during the time when time exists. Any time after that is not time....but something else is yet to be confirmed. Thank you.

Answer 6

Well there are a whole lot of theories of how it's going to end!

Yes, I think it is infinite because we have to remove the human equation i.e. we only measure time as something we're aware of (if you know what I mean)

Before us and after us there was / will be still be time.

We might all die (like the dinosaurs) the earth might not function but there'd still be time.

I have absolutely no idea actually !

Guess we'd have to define time first.

Answer 7

time is a fundamental quantity, that is to say, it can not be quantified against other quantities, such as force, energy and stuff like that because we measure those things against time itself.
we accept the values of time because we have used those values for so long, i.e. 2000 years B.C. circa Sumerian era.
They use devices called Sexagesimal Systems, which used the number sixty. But suppose they had used something which had only used nos. up to, say, forty, that would then change how we perceive time.
So say that time is infinite is a misconception, in my view, because we accept time as a concept, not as a quantifiable fact which can be verified with empirical evidence

Answer 8

In pondering this, as with many time/space questions I have answered, it goes back to my subscribing to the "Superstring Theory".

Time may be endless with no beginning and no end. However, it is hard to contemplate this as our perception of time is very narrow. There may have been a beginning, but we cannot fathom how many trillions of trillions of eons that was ago, and how many trillions of trillions of eons into the future it may end.

This is of course contrary to those who believe in a Creator that insists He created the beginning and portends that from that moment on those who are worthy a rewarded with eternal life which indicates no end to time.

But, back to my explanation of what "Superstring Theory" mandates. It theorizes that our Universe is like a giant amoeba-like structure called a "membrane". It is possibly among infinite amounts of other membranes. As eons go by, theses membranes occasionally (again, in eon time) collide with each other causing a humongous explosion ("Big Bang") instantly destroying and simultaneously recreating all matter in each membrane.

So, if you look at the grand scheme of things, it is nearly impossible, even with mathematics, in "Superstring Theory" to derive a time-line of existence. Even if you were to consider time as the length of time between each creation and destruction of each of the recreated Universes in this scenario.

But good luck trying to ponder it....lol.

~jaz~

Answer 9

Wierd stuff, time. Nobody even knows if it exists or not, it has not been scientifically proven to exist by some scientists, others do not know why it goes forward not backwards. All there is is subjective objectivity and memory.

Answer 10

In short, yes.

Time is merely the progression of things. It can not be slowed down nor sped up. It can not be stopped nor reversed. Only our perception of time can be affected.

Things occurred long before our galaxy existed, and will continue to happen long after our sun converts to a white dwarf.