2007-09-21 04:56:25 · 11 answers · asked by Rita 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Such an understanding of time is postulated by many cosmologists and physicists, but I think that time is about duration, and the condition for the possiblity of that duration is that past, present and future are conditioned by one another, but remain distinct. From our experience of perceived relationships between past, present and future we might infer the eternal, but the eternal is not a mingling of past, present and future, but a mysterious reality that we have some apprehension of, but we cannot fully define or appreciate. The past, present and future seem to indicate the eternal by way of analogy, but there seems an infinite qualitative difference between what is eternal and what is temporal.
2007-09-21 05:40:54 · answer #1 · answered by Timaeus 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. What is past is past and never will be again and the future is too unknown.
The proof that time is a straight and singular line (thus no other past/present/future time lines to travel upon) stems from time travel. Why? Because time travel is not possible. If it were - and time was more like a huge expanding cloud (thereby all time would be available for travel if the proper science were developed) instead of a line, we would have been visited by people from the future already. But we haven't.
Einstein's theories about travel at the speed of light appear to show time travel is possible - mathematically. However, mathematical possiblity does not necessarily translate into observant reality. Predicated upon a speed, Einstein claims the speed of light is connected to time - but it is only a speed, a velocity of measurement. Same as MPH in your car. Or the speed of sound. When Yeager broke the sound barrier there were all sorts of fantastical theories about what would happen to him: he would explode, travel to a different dimension, etc. But what happened was nothing. He just went fast and there was a sonic boom and he was going faster than the speed of sound. No big deal.
So why should the speed of light - incredibly faster than sound for certain - have a connection with time travel? It is merely a recordable velocity. A perception of location and that locations relavance to its' environment.
I believe that when the SOL is attainable by humans, there will be all sorts of wild theories about what will happen to the occupants of the spacecraft. And then, when the smoke clears, nothing will happen - just like with Yeager.
2007-09-21 12:26:56 · answer #2 · answered by thinking-guru 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, all time is one with the past, present and future...and in our human form, we are reading it from start to finish like a book.
2007-09-21 12:57:37 · answer #3 · answered by Mr. Grudge 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, Time is connected thru past, present and future.
2007-09-21 13:28:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sure - I thought it was explained very well in the old show "Quantum Leap"....time is like a ball of string, with all points touching each other somewhere...
2007-09-21 12:33:37 · answer #5 · answered by Blue Oyster Kel 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Time does not exist. There is only the present moment.
2007-09-21 13:08:54 · answer #6 · answered by Josh 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
you can't be one with anything but the present, unless you are in a funky space time continuim.
2007-09-21 12:36:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anne D 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
my queen
only God deals with everything as one unit...all time and place dimensions meet in one point and HE only knows where/when is it.
love always
Pluto
2007-09-21 13:40:11 · answer #8 · answered by PLUTO 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes because their is no time.
2007-09-21 12:09:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
This is what Einstein thought.
2007-09-21 12:09:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋