What is Time?

What is Time?
That is question put by my friend Siva Ojha, in his Pod in Zaadz : What is time?.
In the Ultimate Wisdom, Time is only a dimension of Supreme Existence, what may be defined as the Existence-Consciousness-Bliss. Before That, there is no Time. Time begins, as and when Manifestation begins ! With Manifestation, Time is Eternal.
Big Bang or no Big Bang, in Manifestation Time is Eternal When we read Hawkins, we are led to believe that there are and will be many universes, and therefore many Big Bangs!
But as the Supreme is Eternal, His Manifestation is also Eternal. There is no beginning, no end. The Supreme Will is not limited by human thought or human belief or human understanding!
Hence one aspect of Time is that it is not there. And another aspect is that it is Eternal. Time is then Eternity. And when it comes to the human level, it becomes artificially limited to seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries, millennia and so on divided by men, artificially.

However, in the pragmatic sense, that is also a level of Truth — though a lesser Truth..

Barin
16-12-2006

Re: What is Time?

Earlier, I referred to Stephen Hawking [in an error in typing, the name was printed as Hawkins, for which I am sorry]. Hawking is the newest scientist-thinker who does not believe in the concept of 'singularity' of the classical Big Bang theory. And in his concept, the extension of universe is beyond time and space, that is, eternal. He has said that there are and will be several universe. There will be no end. No end of Matter. No end of universes. No end of Time and Space. There is no limit, no boundary. His thought is very close to Indian Philosophy. 

I seek to quote about his concepts : 
 

“In collaboration with Jim Hartle, Hawking developed a model in which the Universe had no boundary in space-time, replacing the initial singularity of the classical Big Bang models with a region akin to the North pole; while one cannot travel North of the North pole, there is no boundary there. While originally the no-boundary proposal predicted a closed Universe, discussions with Neil Turok led to the realization that the no-boundary proposal is consistent with a Universe which is not closed also.” {Wikipaedia]

Barin
16-12-2006

Re: What is Time?

Several questions related to time are reproduced below.—what time actually is; whether time exists; what kinds of time travel are possible; why the time dimension has an arrow but a space dimension does not; whether the future and past are real; how to analyze the metaphor of time's flow; whether the future will be infinite; whether there was time before the Big Bang; whether tensed or tenseless concepts are semantically basic; what is the proper formalism or logic that captures the special role that time plays in reasoning; and what are the neural mechanisms that account for our experience of time.  Some of these issues will be resolved by scientific advances alone, but others require philosophical analysis.