Did the Universe already happen?

a reply to: ausername

Or, the moment the Universe accelerates to the speed of light another Big Bang instantly occurs.

This is the reply post you were expecting.

Dibs.

There is something, when you achieve it, you learn a little bit about reality that other people do not know. However, at the same time, you are rendered incapable of conveying that concept to anyone else.

I may or may not have done so. If I had, I wouldn't be able to tell you here, anyway. The same would be for you, if you discovered it.

Prediction vs dictation is an interesting philosophical idea, and is done by almost every sci-fi series at some point.

Time is a perspective concept. I can tell you that time does not exist at all, and you have no way to refute the statement... Except as a function of distance.

If you were well outside of the big bang when it happened, it doesn't happen to you until it expands into your position. When it finally does get to you, it would appear as a flash in the far distance. Of course time like we understand it wouldn't exist outside of the big bang universe.

For those who are inside the big bang, it is still exploding and expanding. For us insiders, the expansion is time for us, it gives us a starting point for time. Our current point in time is determined by our distance from the point where the big bang occurred, but it is still inside the bang that basically just "now" exploded. So regardless of your place inside the big bang, it wouldn't matter if it was the first moments after the bang or the last, it would still seem like the current time and place to you, just more compressed or less compressed space around you. Our time and place is relatively constant compared to the expansion of the space around us.

originally posted by: Gothmog
a reply to: drewlander

Time is a made up measurement designed only to track our own mortality

Yep.

It probably still exploding, since it's that big of a bang.

Our universe is expanding, It will stretch to a point,Then it will contract and all matter and energy will be crushed down into a singularity. Containing everything in the universe. Then another big bang will happen when all that matter explodes spreading all matter and energy to do it all over again. Expand to a point , Then snap back to a point,

There are hypotheses that say (in a nutshell) that the universe is an unchanging block of space-time in which "the present" moves through.

Th universe and all moments of time in the universe is just a pre-set thing that "the present" experiences, one moment at a time.

Another way to look at it is that everything -- past, present, and future -- all happen simultaneously. Or maybe more accurately, everything that has happened or will happen is already a construct built into the unchanging universe.


Look up Block Universe

and

Eternalism

a reply to: drewlander

Why do people need to say crap like this. We don't need to watch you bow out and announce you have no earned right to an opinion.

Time is slow motion cause by relativity. Time = orbit x mass / rotation. Eat it, Einstein.

originally posted by: Specimen
It probably still exploding, since it's that big of a bang.

It is or we wouldn't be able to detect it. Kind of proves everything happens at the same time doesn't it?