(March 18, 2015 at 3:11 pm)Tonus Wrote:Some people have a hard time just grasping that time is relative.(March 18, 2015 at 2:25 pm)GriffinHunter Wrote: That force may or may not be personal, and perhaps it isn't even a mind. But I just can't wrap my mind around the idea of there being absolutely no First Cause at all...I think that's natural. Our lives and the events within are measured by beginnings and endings. We have a problem grasping even very large or very small values, to say nothing of the concept of infinity.
On our human scale, both physically and in life span, time travels in a straight line at a consistent rate. And that's good enough for us to use it and get by.
But zoom out to galactic scale and time gets very wonky. It's hard to grasp, but it's what happens. The idea of no ultimate beginning may also be hard to grasp, but that may very well be reality. Whether we can grasp it or not isn't nearly as important as whether or not it's reality.