RE: Is it possible that the universe could be eternal??...
October 9, 2010 at 12:27 pm
(This post was last modified: October 9, 2010 at 12:29 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(October 8, 2010 at 9:27 pm)Tiberius Wrote: [...]
If you mean instead "for infinity" (i.e. no start, no end) then the question is rather unanswerable, although it does form several philosophical questions, such as how you can ever get to a finite point in time (as we experience) when you have no reference on the infinite timeline.
I'm gonna digress a bit here on some speculation I find somewhat interesting, hopefully I'm not too off-topic. And I hope I say something at all interesting.
The past can be measured in the sense it can be defined as simply "before now" or "before the present" in other words, as can the future as being after the present.
But then these both depend on the definition of "present". And the thing is, the present is completely immeasurable because it passes in an instant which can't be measured. There is only flowing or "happening", occurring, etc.. So what really would be a "finite" point in time? Or have I misunderstood you there?
