(September 14, 2012 at 2:14 pm)Ace Otana Wrote:(September 14, 2012 at 1:22 pm)automaton Wrote: and also the thought of "no time" just doesn't feel right to me.
There was no 'before' the big bang. Time did not exist.
I've read this before but have never thought it very likely. No one now knows if on some larger scale than that which includes everything related to our big bang, it may be that big bangs are common place but greatly dispersed. We just don't know, and right now at least, we have no way to see beyond the limits of our own big bang phenomena.
From the stand point of such a scale, time may or may not be infinite but I see no reason to think it isn't. Time doesn't end when I die, when this planet we live on dies or even when our sun burns out. So who's to say if time ends when all the energy in what we call our universe is spent? And since time didn't begin with my birth or that of our planet or sun, who knows if it began with the bang?
In the absence of evidence, I'm going with the intuitive.
