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Might we be living and observing in time "zero?"?

Might the universe as we observe it still be all contained within the infinitely small volume called a point (despite how "big" it appears to us), and our time be "zero + epsilon" or whatever other time increment still within "bang" time?

Update:

After reading the first 10 answers, I must ask "Does anybody besides my 19 year old daughter even understand the question?"

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  • 1 decade ago
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    You can't really put a value on how fast time is passing. It's completely arbitrary.

  • goring
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    All actions are relative.So for something to be relative there must be a starting point of measurement. Even if the reference frame of measurement is moving,the only way we can measure is if we set the motion of the starting point in that frame of reference as zero velocity;Thus we measure the time of the action from that zero point.

    Hence if it was possible for the earth to move at the speed of light all measurements form the earth would have to be taken relative to it.And the starting point is at zero time. And the reference frame speed is taken as zero velocity.

    Example; If it took five minutes for the doctor to read the clock to be 12 o clock as the time of birth; As far as the baby is concerned his time is five minutes.

    The Set time period of oscillations in the Physical Universe according to Stephen Hawking was a creation which is relative only to the Physical Universe. Thus time in the Universe is conserved.

    Basically Time is a quantity that indicates how fast a process took place.Thus it indicates the Past.

    The present is timeless and the future is imaginary.

    Source(s): The Creation of time in the Physical Universe me own little brains
  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    I disagree. Assuming that information is a basic belongings of remember and potential and that anxious structures have developed to channel this to create the phantasm of 'self', creatures with anxious structures are a burning mild of information compared to the dim historic past radiation of a universe of truly subconscious remember. To pay interest to any sound, coloration, structure, memory or emotion is significantly better than slightly of rock or a plant ever memories, with out even thinking complicated ideas. I do imagine that our information has infinitesimal complexity compared to what could be, as an celebration a Matrioshka mind made from each and each and every of the remember interior the photo voltaic gadget could have a perceptual journey richer than our own via many, many orders of value. If on the different hand you're concerning the actual undeniable reality that we are no longer consciously attentive to maximum of our concept tactics, then I agree. i imagine that is unavoidable on condition that it truly is how the mind works. it remains a a lot richer journey than the boring and unfocused one which plant life, a corpse, or a rock must have.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    No, time started a few seconds after the big bang. So we are not at time 0. If you were to exit the known universe, you would be outside of space-time. Out there I'm not sure what you would call that. That is really a matter for relativity. Relativity is not something I have a good grasp on.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    yes

    Source(s): Post Grad Psych Pro
  • 1 decade ago

    There are many things we never understand for example we see red and understand how it look.we can't see infrared radiation but the snakes can see, we can't see ultraviolet radiation but bees can So it is very hard to understand how infrared and ultraviolet look to them, Imagining them is not that easy. The question you asked is somewhat similar. we see ourselves very much larger than an ant but we are very very small compared to the planet earth. Our sun is equal to a point in the milky way galaxy. If we imagine time as very slow for us and something in which the universe is contained, we may imagine our universe as a small point and still in a bang time. Yet nothing can be true completely.

  • cosmo
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    No, our definitions of time and space are chosen to describe motion as it is observed in the real Universe. A meter is a meter, and a second is a second, and not some other thing as you suggest.

  • 1 decade ago

    Time is a measurement of any relation of a sequence of events. Time started when a driving force started. Which brings us back down to what started everything. Basically everything is about beliefs and I believe this is something we may never know.

  • 1 decade ago

    size is a direct distinction made by the observer.time is determined by the time our home planet revolves around our star so is there really any time in the universe. this can explain why every action that happens in the universe seems to us to be on such a large time table.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    MIGHT there be no time at all. If matter can never be created or destroyed than the universe itself COULD BE timeless. The time we use like (seconds, minutes, etc) COULD just be human perception.

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