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What if time was circular? That in the future all matter becomes compressed smaller than this period.

Then the process begins all over again, and that is the solution to the problem of infinite regress? It's counter intuitive but as NDT said, "the universe is under no obligation to make sense to you"
canusernamebemyusername · M Best Comment
I have thought of that idea. According to some cultures time is circular. But I think it still leads to infinite regression. Once a circle is made it is self sustaining but the circle has to be made first. I thought I came up with an answer but it still had infinite regression. lol
@AgapeLove Really sorry about the hole:( Ill keep trying to think of ones that don't have holes:)
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@AgapeLove Thank you:)

Peaceful · F
What if time doesn't exist? It seems us humans are the only ones that implement this human construct to attempt to make sense of things.
Peaceful · F
@ButterRobot everything changes, we chose to use units of time.
Sicarium · 46-50, M
@Peaceful You're right, the wolf doesn't think about time. It doesn't articulate time or describe time. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that even if the wolf has no knowledge or understanding of time it is still operating inside of time.

A wolf has no knowledge or understanding of gravity. That doesn't mean it's going to float off into space.
Peaceful · F
@Sicarium a wolf just is. Like all animals except humans that have needed a linear time line to place more importance on itself. 🤷
Marshall Barnes on Quora gives the perfect answer...

"Time itself is neither. Time doesn’t flow or move but allows other things to do so. So cycles that we observe have nothing to do with time other than time allows them to exist. Time is attached to every part of space, forming the space-time continuum and since everything is moving, vibrating, changing, that is due to the fact that time is the dimensional aspect that allows change, and spatial dimensions allow things to be in different places. When those things change position, that is because time allows it to happen. No time, no change, no nothing.

We know time is real because if it wasn’t, time dilation wouldn’t occur. Time dilation is those distortions in what we think to be the flow of time, during high velocity transits or in the presence of strong gravitational fields.

When people think that celestial changes, or seasonal changes due to the Earth’s position around the sun, are time, that’s like thinking a fish swimming in a fish tank, is the water. Actually, the tank is like space, and the water is like time. The water fills the tank and is everywhere. If it wasn’t, the fish couldn’t move and would be dead despite all of that space in the tank.

The fact that time doesn’t move explains the asymmetry of time, or why things never seem to go backwards. Despite the fact that physicists can run their equations forward and backwards, we never see the events that those equations explain, happen in reverse. That’s because time has nothing to do with either, it’s just there serving the purpose I described. For things to happen in reverse, all of the forces and process that cause them to happen in a causal order, would have to reverse, and that’s never going to happen. Gravity, will not reverse, your biological processes will not reverse, the expansion of gases during an explosion will not reverse, because there is no causal agent that could make them do so."

Marshall Barnes has 20 years + experience on time research
Sicarium · 46-50, M
Doesn't look that way. The universe is still expanding, and the rate of expansion is speeding up.

Also, the idea of a singularity exploding into the big bang is about 20 years out of date. Although that hasn't made it into popular culture yet, and there's no consistent replacement so everyone's just been kind of shrugging their shoulders (besides the string theory crowd). If time didn't begin as a compressed point, time can't return to a compressed point to make it circular.

Really, everyone is pretty much waiting on the unified theory to move any further.
ButterRobot · 51-55, M
It sounds better then the 'heat death' scenario - which frankly sounds quite depressing
ButterRobot · 51-55, M
I think life would be a lot more zany if that was the case.
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@ButterRobot idk you have to admit people are pretty funny-looking
ButterRobot · 51-55, M
But a distinct lack of house sized purple butterflies in my memory
KaiserSolze · 46-50, F
Steven Hawkins wrote a book about this. I couldn't read it all. I may try again.
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Cool concept!
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wakanda4eva · 26-30, F
So time repeat itself?
wakanda4eva · 26-30, F
@AgapeLove but people would die at different times and get reincarnated at different times, or are you saying that like each person has their own time clock and once it stops it gets restarted for a new soul? And along the clock u get to remember little its and pieces of moments from ur past lives?
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wakanda4eva · 26-30, F
@AgapeLove idk lol people always claim to remember something from their past life so I was putting ur theory of time is a circle into it
Gumba1000 · M
The Big Crunch is thought unlikely now by scientists.
You watched that movie, didn't ya?
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