What would you call this idea on time?

Question

Here's the idea: Time does not exist. The universe is made up of cycles things die and things are born. There is no such thing as a beginning or an end. For example, a seed is planted and grows the plant dies but it has planted more seeds. The universe never began, it just always existed.. The world is recycling constantly, all elements of space and all atoms are recycled, atoms are shared...

Answer 1

Hope all is well! I guess if I had to name your idea, I'd call it the "Absolute Being Theory", or something along those lines (I know that's total cheese, but it's the first thing that popped up in my mind).

I'd call it that since from your idea, you're focused on things being "are" what they "are", regardless of time (whether it was a long time ago, way into the future, or if it just happend literally right now), since we could never know the absolute beginning of time (I know there's that Big Bang baby crap that scientists like to say is the beginning of time but I won't go there) so at the very least we can say there's definite absolute being, meaning we're "here", along with everything else (living and non) that is also "here". Eventhough it will all be "gone", something else will take its place and it, itself, will just be "here".

The only thing that I sort of "disagree" with (I'm no one, believe me, but thought I should point it out) is when you say "Time does not exist".

Again, I'm nobody, and I'm answering since I like discussing Time with my friends (we get into heated debates) but I do feel time does exist. Time is really the measurement between events happening, like your plant example. A seed is planted, which takes time, and then it grows, which also takes time (a couple of weeks a month, etc). Then it matures, then eventually dies. So you can measure the whole "life cycle" of a plant in units of time.

That's why I don't believe in Time Travel! Where are you going to literally travel through? What are you seeing out the window of the "Time Machine" or whatever as you're "going" back thru Time? All while you're still aging and still processing events and, I guess, still steering the Time Machine vehicle, all of which are happening forward in time...as you're travelling back in time!

Sorry, this was very long. I do agree with you that the universe never began, that it is just "is". If there was this Big Bang, well what was there before all that? Nothing? Well, how long was that "nothing" there? And before that "nothing", was there "something" there? And how long was that "somthere" there? You can definitely go on and on, so I think Time itself, is just "is".

It's "time" for me to stop typing! Sorry for the length again! All the best and good luck...

Answer 2

There can be not doubt that time does exist. It is defined as an interval between events. Experiments with atomic clocks carried on fast jet aircraft and compared to atomic clocks on Earth have shown that motion dilates time. The only place where time does not exist is within the event horizon of a black hole where motion is not possible because there is no space there. Material is recycled constantly, it has been that way since the creation of the universe 13.5 billion years ago, but this has nothing to do with the existence of time, other than to provide another proof that it exists.

Answer 3

Time is a measurement of the things we can see and understand, it is used by us for comparison and measurement.

You are right that things just recycle everything basically came from one point. Who knows maybe these points are cycles as well with a black hole becoming "supernova like" and creating another point someplace else. Time relative to that is inconsequential, just a physical property

Answer 4

Several others have said you could call it a theory, but that's because they don't understand what that word means to scientists. At best, what you have there is called a hypothesis, and it's not even a good one.

Answer 5

Cycles is just another name for time. Time is what separates events into the ones that happened before, the ones happening now and the ones that haven't happened yet.

Answer 6

yes. everything is pointless because it does recycle.
we die to soon as well.
if we lived for 50 billion years, then we could get to see the "big picture"
but as for now, yes, we and time do not really matter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHC8z6ULs18

Answer 7

For one event to follow another, there has to be time. Your theory does not preclude that, just stretches it to infinite proportions.

Answer 8

A theory?

Answer 9

you would call it a theory.

Answer 10

Since you asked...

Nonsense.

:-)