About time we have been wrong
Feb 11, 2013 5:11:39 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2013 5:11:39 GMT -5
Try to imagine, if you will, an universe that has no beginning in time and no end in time. Its state is said to be steady. But that is impossible to imagine, is it not, impossible to reconcile with our current concept of time. There is no forever in the past or in the future, time must have a stop.
So now try to imagine an universe that began all of a sudden, in a great big soundless "bang," emerging out of . . . nothing. But that too is impossible to imagine, impossible to reconcile with our concept of time. We cannot possibly escape the question "what happened before that?" And similarly if we try to imagine an universe that peters out into nothing at all, we ask "and then, after that?"
Even to imagine the world continuing after one's own expiry is difficult. Will it be real? Will we ever somehow find out what happens in 2100, 2800, and 20000?
Anyway, the point of all this is that our concept of time is faulty. As shewn above, it cannot be infinite, and it cannot be finite. So we had better start all over again and reinvent a better time had we not? Let's not make it a dimension at all this time round!
So now try to imagine an universe that began all of a sudden, in a great big soundless "bang," emerging out of . . . nothing. But that too is impossible to imagine, impossible to reconcile with our concept of time. We cannot possibly escape the question "what happened before that?" And similarly if we try to imagine an universe that peters out into nothing at all, we ask "and then, after that?"
Even to imagine the world continuing after one's own expiry is difficult. Will it be real? Will we ever somehow find out what happens in 2100, 2800, and 20000?
Anyway, the point of all this is that our concept of time is faulty. As shewn above, it cannot be infinite, and it cannot be finite. So we had better start all over again and reinvent a better time had we not? Let's not make it a dimension at all this time round!