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Time can't be broken. Some people call it everlasting, but I think it's eternal, because time doesn't seem to have a start...
I mean, before everything, there was nothing. no-thing and nothing. But how long would that nothing last? We could say like, 20 seconds of nothing. So even when there's nothing does that mean that time exists? Can we measure nothing with time?
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SmogHotdog
Considering this was posted under philosophy, and evidently "eternity" is a human construct not applicable to science, I'll try not to get too science-y on you- But you asked! =3
My understanding is that "time" isn't a thing on its own (without space it's merely a concept in our heads- hence "spacetime") Following this logic, the idea of "before everything" is meaningless (well, no, but for the sake of this discussion) outside of philosophical discussion, because for there to have been anything before everything, time would have to be extrinsic of the universe.
Spacetime is a function (the function being distance/duration) of matter's existence. Neither duration nor distance have any meaning without two measurable points.
Bearing that in mind, time becomes something from our own perception, and we view it in increments known as "moments in time" (this is because we view the universe as 3 dimensional, and are incapable of 4th dimensional perception)
So, say if we were to go back in time "before everything" we would simply progress until time looped back around to going forwards again. Time would be incapable of going further back, simply because there is no further back- Now reverse this to a forwards point in time where everything ceases except for spacetime. I imagine it wouldn't be able to "progress" because there is simply nothing there. No threshold to break, no paradox to be created, and sadly, no endless 'eternity' of photons floating around.
SmogHotdog
ALSO ULTRAKILL PFP SPOTTED IN THE WILD BASED BASED BASED
ultrakill so based it's the main thing that got me into philosophy
apologies for no answer for 5 days, im working om more analysis about philosophy and such. ive got a bit of a shiny object syndrome here and there, but your perspective of time is truly unique
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getting in2 philosophy via ultrakill is so real lmao
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feral boy Jamara
I’m not sure how scientifically accurate I am but how I see it is that time exists simply because it’s impossible for it not to exist. Also,time is eternal because it can’t be otherwise. It’s impossible for time to have a beginning because no matter how far back you go something must have preceded it. Likewise it’s impossible for time to have an end because no matter how far forward you go something follows after. Like I said I don’t know if that’s scientifically correct but it’s just how it seems to me.
yeah i get you i agree
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