i still say watch donnie darko
Believe Lord_Glavin, Zaper. He IS no.777 after all
Time is not infinite. Why? The universe is not infinite, as everything must die, and that it is known that the universe will soon fall into a state called the big crunch. Now, if the universe does no exist, how will time exist? Multi Verse?
Even if the universe is destroyed time still flows. Consider the big bang theory, where there was nothing, and then with a might explosion formed the cosmos. If time did not flow, then it would have remained the eternal nothingness.
Time would not exist without the universe. The defenition of our 'universe' is the dimensions that define existance, and this includes time. If the universe ceases to exist, presumably that means that the dimensions that define it has (or, rather, they must no longer exist). Thus, even as the universe cannot exist without time, time cannot exist without the universe, for time is a subset of the universe itself.
Acutally, just thinking of time, I came up with something rather interesting regarding time, space, and all the forces of the universe. Essentially, I came to the conclusion that the basic thing of the universe is an unknowable ether. How? Well, consider this. It is plain how all three spacial dimensions interact, and how they influence matter, correct? It is also proven that matter influences gravity and, once the Grand Unified Theory is disconvered, all the forces of the universe will be connected, thus linking even electromagnetism with the existance of matter. Furthermore, electromagnetism is connected with light. Thus one can have a link from light to matter. Since gravity affects light, there is yet another link. Now, matter and time connect in the following way: when something goes faster, the rate of time-flow alters for it. Thus, movement and mass are connected to time. How are they connected? It is said that at the speed of light, mass becomes infinite. Thus, the speed of light defines the upper bound of mass. Also, at the speed of light, time stops. Thus the lower bound of time is defined by light as well. This gives a new meaning to the phrase: let there be light! It may turn out to be true, after all, if light can be seen, or rather the speed of light, can be seen as the defining thing of the universe. Now, through this logic, all forces, matter, and time in the universe have some connection and influence each other, and can be traced to light (arbitarially; it could be traced to any of these, but light has the interesting property of defining the bounds I have mentioned.) But one question remains: why is the speed of light what it is? Light can be slowed down by going through a medium like water, almost to a stand-still, but through vaccuum, it is a set speed, or at least is now (I have heard it said that it may be that light has been slowing down from the beginning). Why this speed? What impedes it? This is what I term ether, after what people used to think lay in the vaccuum. It is a medium that sets the boundaries upon the universe, essentially making the universe the universe, and not void. Now, this would have an interesting property. I'm not certain of this, but the laws governing the speed of light as an upper bound seem to tie to the number, not a given ray of light. If one nearly stops light, the materials through which it passes do not become infinitely heavy, I do not think. So it is the value, the resistance to light's travel, that is important. Thus light itself is meaningless; it is the medium that defines light, and thus the medium which defines what matter and time are. Now, consider that light may indeed be slowing down. This shows a trend of density increase in the medium over time, perhaps due to cooling in the aftermath of creation/bigbang/whatever. And what are the implications of this? That the set speed of light, the upper bound, will fall lower and lower, thus making relative mass of the universe higher and higher, as it will lie nearer the speed of 'light'. Furthermore, time will travel more slowly. Eventually, as the density of this medium impedes all travel of light, the speed of light will go to zero, the universe will become infinitely heavy and, stopping time, come to eternity, where nothing happens. On the flipside, outside the universe, which is essentially void without the ether (the universe being a pocket of ether) light would have free reign to go infinitely quickly, and time would pass at an infinite rate, thus being another form of eternity where all things happen at once.
So, essentially, I propound the idea of an unknowable ether.