<p>when i was younger i noticed that trends flip constantly reflecting peoples' desire to rebel (and their shortsightedness haha).. so it's circling back and forth forever, with minimal alterations on how it affects us, it's just our standards that are changing.. but you see what i mean when i say that the appealing or unappealing qualities basically remain. and that's EVERYTHING, not just fads in society but nature too with its balance and whatnot, ie planets rotating to get the right amount of light to survive. so basically everthing's on a circular path on some level in order to connect itself back to its root and to survive. but our concept of time doesn't take circularity into consideration at all, and doesn't it also create the need for cult/religious practices? the assumption that there is a beginning that nothing connects back to? is there any begin to which nothing connects back? time seems flawed somehow to me, just because it doesn't reflect the progress of the thing it tries to measure--nature. earth. "the beginning of time"... ? hmm? what do you think? i'm just saying that time is only accurate as a convenient estimation of when the sun rises and sets, and not as a scale for centuries, since honestly we don't know how that works. do we? i don't know. i'm beginning to see flaws in this argument. not argument, just alternative fallacy ;P i don't know.</p>
<p>actually, time isn’t accurate in estimating the passage of itself, seeing as time is completely relevant to the objects speed (at least according to Einstein)</p>
<p>personally, I believe there was a beginning of time. Time and space are interconnected, and can’t survive without the other. Knowing that the universe, and thus space, <em>started</em>, coupled with this knowledge, we can assume that time <em>started</em> along side with space.</p>
<p>our concept of time doesn’t take circularity into consideration because it travels in one direction. we can’t go backwards in time because that would involve traveling faster than the speed of light, which is impossible because our mass would be stretched into infinity. going forward far enough in a circle would also mean going backwards (for example, (in radians), 11pi / 6 = -pi / 6), and since we already know we can’t go back in time, that makes it impossible for time to be circular.</p>
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<p>Then again, if time was circular, we’d be repeating the same moments over and over again.</p>
<p>Hmmm. Sorry, but that doesn’t make sense at all. Like… at all.
I don’t see how any of what you said is connected.</p>
<p>Also, “planets rotating to get the right amount of light to survive-” what? This implies that planets consciously rotate to “get the right amount of light” so that they can survive (and presumably you mean that they = life on that planet since the planets aren’t alive)… and as far as we know, Earth is the only planet with life… and Earth certainly doesn’t rotate just so that we can survive.</p>
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<p>“dude i just smoked the fattest bowl, time to start posting on cc”</p>
<p>no…i don’t know…</p>
<p>Well, time isn’t circular. Just look at any human. They grow and die, but they don’t grow and become babies again.</p>
<p>I agree that time and space must have started at the same time. However, I don’t think that time created the need for religions. There are more factors than time (though time is one of them) that were thought of when religions formed. It’s more of the thought “Why are we here?”</p>
<p>exactly, thats the cycle though…the humans grow, breed, and die, which keeps the circle of humanity goin til we die out and it’s back to the start of the circle, with no humans</p>
<p>but the concept of time being a line instead of a circle makes people ask “well how did the line start?” and it’s a valid question that nobody can answer at this point, so how about we consider that time is a circle?</p>
<p>and time HAS to be the most macro thing…and the more macro you get the more macro things seem, right?</p>
<p>What’s with the new name?</p>
<p>So you’re saying that time existed forever, since a circle has no starting and ending point, and it will never cease to exist?</p>
<p>Well, if space didn’t exist forever, and if time is directly related to space (you can’t have time without space), then time can’t have existed forever either, making it more linear than circular.</p>