The past isn't here anymore, and the future is happening right now. So is the past obselete?
2007-08-06 06:15:18 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Whatever we do now in the Present alters the Future. The Future eventually becomes the Past. Also if you travel into the Past the Past becomes Present and thereby our Present is now the Future, then again, whatever we do in the Present ( in our Past) alters the Future ( our Present ).
2007-08-06 06:19:40 · answer #1 · answered by Jordan A 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Future Refers to Whats Going to Happen But Never Reaches that Point in 'time'(thats Why they Call it the Future and not the Present) the Present Refers to Whats Happening As you refer to 'it'. The past is What You Have Referred to.It could Easily Be Argued that Since the present has Passed and the Future Is Supposedly 'now'(since you Referred to The Future in the Past) that there only exist a Future making the Past *Obsolete???.... This isn't a Time-Space Continuum Chat Board so This Question is Pretty Much Rendered Incapable of further Discussion... The Answers Should Pretty Interesting Though...
2007-08-06 13:23:01 · answer #2 · answered by kevin p 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People think way too much into this. Present is now, whatever you're doing now. It could be general, such as what have you been doing in the past hour that you're still doing, or what you're doing NOW. The present isn't measured in time. The future is what's yet to come, and the past is what has already happened. There's really not that much thought needed to put into it. The past is NOT obsolete because there is much to be learned from what has happened.
Another thought: The Future is what can be changed, the past is what has been done, and the present is the ACT of changing it, now when I say change I mean the decisions that people make, and what is happening naturally as well.
2007-08-06 13:20:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer to that is difficult for us humans to understand, but I believe there is no time, we just make it to make life easier, why?
Because the past no longer exists, the present can be broken down to minute time intervals and you'll always seem to be in the future, yet the future has not happened yet so it doesn't exist either.
Time is constantly moving "forward" 1 hour, 1 minute, 1 second, 1 millisecond and so on. Then you'd probably reach infinity.
2007-08-06 13:45:42 · answer #4 · answered by Karma 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you say that the present is non-existing then that means everything at this moment does not exist. Also if the future is occuring right now, to a person in the future it is thier present. But their present does not exist. That would mean that the past, present, and future would not exist so, yeah...
2007-08-06 13:58:14 · answer #5 · answered by ozzy4president51 or sean 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The present time is all that DOES exist.
The future has not happened yet. Tomorrow never comes, because when it does, it is called today.
The past is dead. You cannot change it. Most of the time you can't even remember it. You can only remember parts of what you personally experienced. The rest of the past is just hearsay of other people's memories of the past.
2007-08-06 14:23:35 · answer #6 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
of course the present time exists! So does the past. If they did not exist then there wouldn't even be a word for it. P.S. the future is not happening, it is what is to come, the present is the time you're experiencing right now.
Why does it even matter anyway its just a measure of time.
2007-08-06 13:21:27 · answer #7 · answered by That guy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The present can only ever be the very moment that you happen to find yourself in at any point in the past or future.
The instant that you recognise it - it has gone. You leave the present behind with every footfall,
2007-08-06 13:20:59 · answer #8 · answered by trebs 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The past is the moment just gone, the future is the moment that is yet to come, all we have is the moment right now.
It is full of potential to do, act, think and speak the right way or the wrong way.
The choice is ours to do what we will only in THIS moment!
2007-08-06 13:19:53 · answer #9 · answered by scotslad60 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The present is always in existence, the past no longer exists but is not obsolute because to learn from one's past is useful. If I were to say which one really doesn't exist (Present, past, future) I would say future. It is always the present, we can look back at the past but the future is pure speculation.
2007-08-06 13:21:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋