Poll: Is there a beginning of time? What about a limit to space?

Timber

These 2 question always makes me ponder, and I can never come up with a good hypothesis for either of them!

I mean, there is always time that exists before something. Time existed before the Madonna, before the dinosaurs, before the Earth existed, before our Galaxy was created and before the big bang even occurred. I mean, it just seems like it can go on forever and ever!! But how is that possible? Isn't it impossible for something not to have a beginning and an end?

As for space, pretty much the same concept confuses me. I understand that the universe is terribly huge, but how is it possible for it to just keep on going and going and going forever and ever!!?!!

What do ya'll think about these2 questions?

FreeXone

If you look at it as linear yes, but there are theories time and space may be circular. Always repeating. No beggining or end...kinda eerie!

Timber

Ugh I screwed it up. I need the people to be able to receive more than just 1 vote per person.

Timber

Just answer whichever question you guys want for the poll then.

Timber

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Originally posted by FreeXone

If you look at it as linear yes, but there are theories time and space may be circular. Always repeating. No beggining or end...kinda eerie!

But wouldn't that mean that the exact thing that I'm doing right now has been done before in the previous cycle. Id:gi.

M-D-N-A

No, there is no beginning or ending. It's just there and the time continues floating and extending.

Nait Phoenix

There is a beginning, but maybe there will never be an ending...

I have reason to believe space is actually always growing and expanding, and there is no end whatsoever! But then my brain hurts and I have to lie down. Good night.

Sazare

Not sure about time, but I do believe the universe is finite.

Timber

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Originally posted by Nait Phoenix

There is a beginning, but maybe there will never be an ending...

I have reason to believe space is actually always growing and expanding, and there is no end whatsoever! But then my brain hurts and I have to lie down. Good night.

Bye.

Nait Phoenix

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Originally posted by Timber

Bye.

I mean, when we start asking questions we know, as humans, we do not have proof to, all it does is create more headaches and less answers answered. I'd rather not continue questioning where we came from, how we were created, and the answer to everything in the universe and just focus on me and my future.

As for the end of the universe thing, we'll never reach it in our current time. We might millions of years from now, but as of now, I'd have a better chance of correctly answering "what the sound of one hand clapping" is than that...

But, I don't want to be the brick wall that blocks more conversation about these! I like those who like to question; it means that you like to think and you like to explore the world and how everything works! So, far be it for me to be the roadblock; continue with your thread. I'm really going to head to bed now!

Mrnoniee

Watch the Minute Earth Videos on Youtube about Time Space Black Hole and Everything

Pop pop123

I watched a documentary on National Geographic (I forgot what the name of the program) they explained about the connection between time and space. It was very interesting. I wish I could find a link on YT right now, but ain't no body got tiem for dat.

Apparently, time and space is intertwined. The past, present, and future is SET in stone.

In fact, the phrase "everything happens for a reason" is very true as the future will always be the same regardless of what's changed in the past.

Thaye

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Originally posted by Timber

Just answer whichever question you guys want for the poll then.

I'll answer here then (not voting): No in both instances I believe.

"Time" is relative, we know that already. When talking about greater schemes such as here, we can't turn to it for orientation and can't refer to it as a permanent that exists outside our own limited mind and understanding. When an object moves close to the speed of light, time will significantly (and I mean significantly) slow down for that object, while it remains the same everywhere else.

In some strange way that we can't figure out (yet?), "time" (or more accurately what we perceive as the passing of time) seems to stand in DIRECT relation to how fast an object is moving. It makes you wonder whether moving constantly at the actual speed of light could make a person immortal basically, because they might never age.

So no, I don't think time ever began or is ever going to end. I don't believe in "time" to begin with.

And about the universe: I recently watched a lecture by Neil Degrasse Tyson on Youtube in which he addressed this: We currently have knowledge on only 4% of the world we live in, because the PHYSICAL MATTER that we even can perceive with our insufficient senses and that we can have knowledge about and describe at this moment makes up only 4% of existence as a whole. So actually we don't even have these 4% knowledge, not even close, because we're still so ignorant on so many things on our very own planet, let alone our galaxy and the universe.

The remaining, whopping 96% of the universe are "dark matter" and the even more obscure "dark energy", according to him. We have no better names simply because we don't know what they are, we only know they exist. He suspects that it's the "dark energy" that is causing the universe to act AGAINST the gravitational forces- the only forces between objects that we know of- and making it expand on and on and on at an ever faster rate. We really can't explain why.

So no, I don't think there was a beginning of the universe. Because the answer of how things really begin and end hardly is in the 4% that we have SOME knowledge of, and instead more likely in the 96% of dark matter and dark energy that we know absolutely nothing about.

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Originally posted by Timber

But wouldn't that mean that the exact thing that I'm doing right now has been done before in the previous cycle. Id:gi.

Do you know of the multiverse theory? Exciting stuff.

Timber

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Originally posted by Thaye

I'll answer here then (not voting): No in both instances I believe.

"Time" is relative, we know that already. When talking about greater schemes such as here, we can't turn to it for orientation and can't refer to it as a permanent that exists outside our own limited mind and understanding. When an object moves close to the speed of light, time will significantly (and I mean significantly) slow down for that object, while it remains the same everywhere else.

In some strange way that we can't figure out (yet?), "time" (or more accurately what we perceive as the passing of time) seems to stand in DIRECT relation to how fast an object is moving. It makes you wonder whether moving constantly at the actual speed of light could make a person immortal basically, because they might never age.

So no, I don't think time ever began or is ever going to end. I don't believe in "time" to begin with.

And about the universe: I recently watched a lecture by Neil Degrasse Tyson on Youtube in which he addressed this: We currently have knowledge on only 4% of the world we live in, because the PHYSICAL MATTER that we even can perceive with our insufficient senses and that we can have knowledge about and describe at this moment makes up only 4% of existence as a whole. So actually we don't even have these 4% knowledge, not even close, because we're still so ignorant on so many things on our very own planet, let alone our galaxy and the universe.

The remaining, whopping 96% of the universe are "dark matter" and the even more obscure "dark energy", according to him. We have no better names simply because we don't know what they are, we only know they exist. He suspects that it's the "dark energy" that is causing the universe to act AGAINST the gravitational forces- the only forces between objects that we know of- and making it expand on and on and on at an ever faster rate. We really can't explain why.

So no, I don't think there was a beginning of the universe. Because the answer of how things really begin and end hardly is in the 4% that we have SOME knowledge of, and instead more likely in the 96% of dark matter and dark energy that we know absolutely nothing about.

Do you know of the multiverse theory? Exciting stuff.

The time part you talked about is just a theory right? Cuz

BadMonster

Time only exists in the eye of the beholder, so if there are no humans then there is no time, but that's my opinion.... We are the only ones who are counting it and keep track of it, other species don't care... Space will exist even without humans, but there was always nothing before there was something, so it has a limit

mylicious

But than again... what is time ? Time is something invented by humans, everything that was here is still here, energy doesn't die out. We are all made of energy. Like, what is time? Something that controls people ..