Right, so where does it come from, then? How did God get the time to create time? Or has time just always existed?We define nothing and something as states of existence without and with a thing. Time is defined as a variable which the evolution of a state of existence is defined in term of it. We obviously need time to move from nothing to something since we are dealing with two state of existence one follows another one. Therefore time is intrinsic aspect of reality and cannot come into existence from nothing.
Time cannot come from something else sine this requires change hence we need time in the first place to have time which is problematic.Right, so where does it come from, then?
This leads to infinite regress as you notice. Hence we have to accept that time is underlying of reality.How did God get the time to create time?
It is not correct to say that time has always existed since time itself is a variable which shows when things have existed.Or has time just always existed?
That is opposite: No time, no change. Time cannot be created.Time is a measurement of change. No change, no time.
Think of situation that time does not exist, lets call this state as A. Then God create time and we reach to state B. But we have a ordered sequence here A=>B which means that B happens after A which this is nothing but time. In simple word, you need time to create time which is problematic.And time can’t be created why?
Well, then why bother with the concept of time at all? Everything which you have is changes. No need to say that what you suggest is against the most theories in field of physics. Just think of the second law of Newton.You are the one who has it backwards. Time passes because things change.
No, there would be no sense of passage of time.If things suddenly stopped changing there would be no time.
No, motion is defined in term of relative changes of a quantity respect to time. Think of velocity which is the first derivative of position respect to time, V=dx/dt, where dx is change in position and dt is change in time. Velocity zero means that there is no change in position respect to time yet you still have time. Just think of no motion, velocity is zero, and no time, dt=0 to see that you end up with a contradiction.Time is the presence of motion - no motion no time.
Huh? “Nothing” is non-existence. It is impossible to get something out of nothing, hence the great cosmological question, “why is there something rather than nothing?”We define nothing and something as states of existence without and with a thing.
Is God outside of time or is being in His presence just “no sense of passage of time?”No, there would be no sense of passage of time.
I think the bold part applies to God.Is God outside of time or is being in His presence just “no sense of passage of time?”
It also applies to those in His presence.I think the bold part applies to God.
We are also in His presence but we are temporal. I don’t know what is the requirement for being in a state which there is no sense of passage of time. Maybe perfect!?It also applies to those in His presence.
Research the Beatific Vision.We are also in His presence but we are temporal. I don’t know what is the requirement for being in a state which there is no sense of passage of time. Maybe perfect!?
There can be ordering without time being real.We define nothing and something as states of existence without and with a thing. Time is defined as a variable which the evolution of a state of existence is defined in term of it. We obviously need time to move from nothing to something since we are dealing with two state of existence one follows another one. Therefore time is intrinsic aspect of reality and cannot come into existence from nothing.
Time isn’t a thing.We define nothing and something as states of existence without and with a thing. Time is defined as a variable which the evolution of a state of existence is defined in term of it. We obviously need time to move from nothing to something since we are dealing with two state of existence one follows another one. Therefore time is intrinsic aspect of reality and cannot come into existence from nothing.
Nothing can come into existence from nothing – that is, on it’s own accord.We define nothing and something as states of existence without and with a thing. Time is defined as a variable which the evolution of a state of existence is defined in term of it. We obviously need time to move from nothing to something since we are dealing with two state of existence one follows another one. Therefore time is intrinsic aspect of reality and cannot come into existence from nothing.
On what basis can “nothing” have existence? Seems to me nothing cannot have existence, for if it did it would something rather than nothing.Nothing can come into existence from nothing – that is, on it’s own accord.
You’re playing what Patrick Coffin would call “antics with semantics”. I said nothing, as in no thing, can come into existence from nothing.On what basis can “nothing” have existence? Seems to me nothing cannot have existence, for if it did it would something rather than nothing.