Friday, February 3, 2012

Time, pt. 4

In the previous post I had regarding time, I talked about the idea of time being finite - sports seasons, academic semesters, winter breaks, and the like. But now, I'm curious about the other end of the spectrum. Does time equal zero? Yes, as in the math problem.

Let's consider the notion that time will go on and on and on and on, and so on and so forth, et cetera, and so on and so forth. Essentially, infinitely. There was, as we can conceive it, an infinite amount of time before us, and an infinite amount of time ahead of us. I'm not referring to our lives, either. Yes, our lives have an expiration date, but time itself does not, is what I'm supposing.

Now that we know time is infinite, consider one second of your life. One tick of the second hand. That's one second. One second in a span of an infinite number of seconds. In the math world, 1/infinity = 0. Think of the next possible second. And the next. All spans of one second. One second, that we could consider zero seconds. So does time really exist?


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