does time have a beginning?

Question

if so, what? how can you explain this?

Answer 1

No...

Time is a human invention...we created the concept to put an imaginary yardstick up against reality in order to measure "motion..."

One day is 24 hours...but where's the starting line? Where's the finish line...One year is one lap around the Sun...but again...where's the starting and finish line...

Even if the universe did arise from The Big Bang...again...where's the "starting line?" There had to be a point in between the "time" it was a singularity, and the time it suddenly wasn't...kinda' like the "half-way to something" scenario...you get halfway to somewhere, then halfway to that halfway, then halfway to that halfway...so that logically it would seem as if you could never arrive at your destination.

Clocks only represent our fictional invention of time...we've never really seen "Time..."

Fascinating question, though...good one...makes my mind spin with speculation...I love that stuff...(hits the pleasure center of my brain almost like making love)

Answer 2

It's a good question, I'll put a star on it. I believe in spirit, that's my "religion," though it's not a religion, just my belief. I believe spirit has existed forever.

However I also believe spirit started time by creating a "stirring in the void," (right out of the way I recall the bible to say, I know)--which began our concept of time. And I believe too that time is elastic, longer in existence than we guess, wider in scope than we know, and subject to change.

No, not time travel or any of that, though it's sci-fi fun... but just the way for an instant one can feel completely in tune with ones surroundings, so in tune that the instant stretches out to become filled with sensory information on that instant, a very full and satisfactory instant.
Really quite a wonderful and meditative type of feeling... but one that can happen anywhere anytime, usually for an unknown reason. Unknown to me at least, unless I'm already sitting in the quiet.

I like time, all aspects of it. The beginning, middle, end... the eternity... and no, I can't explain it all, but I would that you can guess!

Answer 3

Time began when the universe was created. It's another dimension, and it's is so intrinsically linked with space that it must have been created when space was created. That's why we can't ask 'what happened before the universe' because there was no 'before'.
I agree with the people below that time is relative to us, but only the speed of time is relative. Time would still exist without us, wouldn't it? Time (as far as my high school physics tells me) is things tending towards disorder. So maybe the beginning of time was a state of extremely high order?

Answer 4

The beginning of time is only a concept humans developed to try and understand time at all. You can attach it to religious beliefs or scientific beliefs. Also, each day is just a continuation of the previous day. So we can function, we keep track of each day cycle with numbers, and our day starts at the beginning of each cycle. I don't think there is a real beginning of time that can be accepted by us or even explained to us.

Answer 5

Good question. Guess it's really open to interpretation. But if time has a beginning, then what came before time? Time isn't really a physical thing like the universe and i guess time would pass even before our universe popped up. Sorry if this wasn't any help.

Answer 6

It must have a beginning, otherwise it would repeat itself in a motion, like a circle, no beginning no end. If it were a cycle with no beginning, than we could time travel.

I just made that up, but if you're doing homework, it will sound like you thought of it!

Answer 7

Time exists as a measurement, it has no begining and no end. Everything always exsisted, always changing and never ending. The dawn of time did not start with the "big bang" or the "creation" of our universe.
However, you could say that "time" started when man first began to measure the passage of time. :)

Answer 8

If you think time has a beginning, let me ask you when? ,,after 24hr??..they all are just what people created as a mark and for a usage..
In fact there is only one thing ,
If you know the beginning of your life , you will know the beginning of time

Answer 9

Time is nothing without the perception of it. Don't so much think of it as a linear representation, it's more like looking at a circular reel of slides on a projector (wow, I think I am dating myself). Pull a slide out and there you are, it fits in with the rest of the reel but when you are looking at it alone the past and future don't really matter.

Answer 10

"Time" is a measurment we humans created. Most people still use the sun as the essential time measurement, but some use the moon. Calendars, clocks, and other tools of measurement are simply that: measurement. Time is relative to space. There really is NO such thing as time independent of our consciousness.