Evolutionist where did time start?

Question

I read the big bang theroy and it still dosent explain how time started are thier an theroys on how time started

Answer 1

There are theories on time and matter, and their beginnings. I believe in the infinity of matter and time. No beginning and no end, just universal evolution... but that is a belief, as there is no proof, evidence, or even a coherent theory.

Answer 2

Fish don't have a comprehensive theory of water. Humans don't have a comprehensive theory of time. It is something we can only experience from inside. Is it a medium we travel through by specific and inviolable rules? Or is it simply that thing that clocks measure, constantly pulling the present into oblivion? How flexible is it, and how could we tell? Does it have ends? What would they look like?

We imagine stopping time, moving against time, existing outside of time, but our biology incorporates time, in our digestion, our respiration, our blood circulation, our nervous systems, even our very thoughts.

The Big Bang could simply describe the bunchy end of time, where everything comes together. Perhaps time was infinitely slower then and the Big "Bang" was really more like a Long Drift. Who would know? We are only beginning to probe the relationships among Time, Space and Gravity. To speak of time "starting" may be objective nonsense from an extra-temporal viewpoint.

Even the Judeo-Christian concept of "God" creating Time from outside of it is inexplicable fantasy. We really don't know what we're talking about because we have no experience of what it is to be without it. Perhaps some day we will understand Time's operation a little better and be able to speak a little more intelligently about it. But it will take awhile.

Answer 3

I think you're going to have to look somewhere other than evolution since it doesn't talk about temporal mechanics or the origin of the universe.

One of the major things people get hung up on when learning about the origin or the universe & the initial expansion is the concept that 'nothing' existed before the singularity began to expand.

What this means is that for the sake of math, physics and time nothing can be said to have existed. It doesn't truly mean there was 'nothing'.

Time is simply a convenient way for us to express how things occur in a linear fashion. Where did it start? At the singularity I suppose you could say. When? I suppose at the point where the singularity was no longer 'not expanding'.

Whenever talking about the origin of the universe here it's almost always a cue for someone to quote how statistically unlikely it is for the universe to have reached stability. They will declare this small statistical likelihood as 'proof of god'.

Of course they ignore the fact that if it failed to reach stability the most likely scenario is that it would collapse and likely expand again until it did reach stability. And even if this yoyo effect happened many quintillion times before it reached stability it's not as though we would know would we? So given an infinite number of tries it was actually inevitable that the universe reach stability.

Now perhaps you really didn't want to know and was just hoping to pose one of those questions simple people think sound profound and unanswerable but there you go anyway.

Answer 4

Creationist where did time start?
I read the CREATION theroy[sic] and it still dosent[sic] explain how time started are thier[sic] an theroys[sic] on how time started ... I'm not sure what you meant BUT please remember - SPELL CHECK IS YOUR FRIEND.

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Answer 5

I would say it started when the first human reached a level of intelligence which allowed it to measure intervals. Early man measured time "from sun to sun". The Ancient Greeks and other Mediterranean states used the sundial. Probably the first clock was invented in China. What we are telling you is that "time" is an artificial thing dreamed up by man and doesn't apply to the era before man. We can measure backwards, but that's now. When we say the universe started 100 billion years ago or whatever, we mean as we measure it now, not as it happened.

Answer 6

I'm quite confident that nobody has the slightest clue how "time started." But that doesn't serve to debunk evolution, as you are most certainly hoping. The religious will simply roll out their be-all/end-all answer: "God done it."

But if I ever start a funk band, I will definitely call it "The Big Bang Theroy." Thanks for that!

Answer 7

First, I am rather intrigued by your spelling.

Time is part of the Space - Time continuum. It, along with everything else in our Universe began (it is now suggested) with the Big Bang.

Fairly simple that.


Time is not a man made thingy. If it weren't for Time everything would happen at once.

Answer 8

The Big Bang theory is not related to evolution.

I don't actually know much about the theories surrounding the beginning of time, but I know that Stephen Hawking has written on the subject.

Answer 9

Time did not start. Time is a subjective concept. The only time that exists is this very moment. We move through the physical world in the eternal now. You can't move through time. Time is what we use to define before this present moment and the future. Time is just an illusion.

Answer 10

Oh, brava TamyP. That was quite a mouthful and very nicely done. Although I do think you're correct that the asker didn't really expect an answer.