The beginning of time?

Question

What is the "official" beginning of time? Like, what year B.C.?

((Well, what is the furthest back something has been dater?))

How old do scientists think the universe is?

Answer 1

To the best of our knowledge, time as we know it began with the Big Bang about 14 billion years ago. B.C. (Before Christ), B.C.E. (Before the Current Era), and A.D. (anno domini - Latin for 'the year of our lord') are really intended for marking the time of human existence which only goes back about 30,000 years - about 10,000 for "civilization".

Trying to state the beginning of time in terms of B.C./B.C.E. would really be silly because you're simply excluding the most recent 2000 years which are a mere blink in relation to the age of the planet Earth, let alone the universe. Furthermore, it would imply accuracy and I don't think scientists can give us dates that accurate going back more than about 5000 years.

Answer 2

Take your pick. Most historians would probably suggest in the Western World the earliest documentation in Egypt would be somewhere around 3 to 4000 years BC. The Egyptian dynasties began around 3100 BC.

In the Far East there are reasonable indications that history was being kept as far back as 3000 BC.

Agriculture was invented around 10,000 BC and many think that is about the earliest trend toward civilization.

We don't know when language began to appear or exactly when the first attempts were being made to introduce writing but historical accounts largely depend on writing, although oral histories have been kept in many cultures and have proven to be fairly accurate.

I don't know that anyone could place an "official" beginning of time. I guess when I meet God, many decades from now--I hope--I will have to ask him.

Good question.

Answer 3

If we could answer this question beyond the shadow of a doubt, the whole evolution versus creation thing would get a whole new twist.

Seriously, though - i'm pretty sure that some day the exact age of the universe can and will be calculated, but i doubt very much it's been done today.

So... i'm going to have to owe you the answer to this one.

Answer 4

the commonly accepted time of the beginning of time is about 14, 000 years ago. 8ooo for creation plus 6000 since the garden of eden, give or take some years!

BUT! the beginning of time no one really knows. GOD has always existed (which is hard to fathom in our finite minds!). gen:1:1 "in the beginning GOD created the heaven and the earth.(PERIOD!)

then there was the 1st earth and heaven age. 1st earth age there were dinosaurs and people not in flesh bodies. in the 1st heaven age satan drew 1/3 of GOD'S rebellious children over to his side. the ELOHIM said "let us make man in our own image." that's when man was born into the 2nd earth age and became a flesh being!

Answer 5

The instant of big bang

An awful lot of years BC

Bill Bryson's short history of nearly everything gives a simple and humerous account of the development of scientific knowledge.

See chapter on Big Bang

Answer 6

day 1

Answer 7

Never. No beginning, no end. Its just a dimension that exists by itself. It would still exist even if it was not ensnared in our space time continuum. Or if we weren't ensnared in its.

Answer 8

the begining of time is t...

time is a man-made measurement. so there's really no telling.

Answer 9

time only began when humans started keeping track of it.