Question:
Does existence begin and/or extend beyond a time and space continuum ?
Hector C
2009-01-08 04:20:30 UTC
Does existence begin and/or extend beyond a time and space continuum ?
Twelve answers:
?
2009-01-08 06:27:45 UTC
There is scientific and intuitive answer to this. But first, we have to define some terms. Are you amiable to a term "pre-existence" or something to this effect? This means existence before having existed. Before we get dizzy with semantics, let me qoute from Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. Every point in the Space-Time continuum is described along its so-called "world line" If this world line did not intersect with another world line, that point did not exist, and is insignificant to be considered at all. So there, you get it from the genius himself. In the Space-Time continuum, if I interpreted it right, there are an infinite number of points in "pre-existence" waiting to have its world line intersected in order to "exist"



In the intuitive side, almost all religions implicitly agree that the real existence is in pre-existence. Call it what you may, the soul or rarefied matter is the only reality, according to the Buddhist. To the Christians, the soul is the eternal. And so it follows that the physical world is only an illusion. And so are all finite things. Even man. The difference in view that these two main thoughts about "being" had, however, may arise only similar to the case of how you consider which is first, the chicken or the egg? For, the Buddhist consider man as the soul that acquired a body. Reincarnation? The Christians on the other hand, consider man as a body that was given a soul. Creation?



In the scientific view, the soul, the essence of all things is the atom. Science agrees that the atoms are the reality. All other matter are only illusions. How can we say this? It is the atoms that is the building block of all matter. It is an accepted fact that the atom in order to become a different one has just to acquire or loose an electron. So, that same material, just by rearranging will create an illusion of another material. And by the various combinations of the same electrons the illusion of all kinds of matter are formed.



In recapitulation, if you could accept that "pre-existence" is existence, then existence is beyond time and space continuum.
Wraxtiorre
2009-01-09 17:45:38 UTC
Hmm..my throat is making a noise like a Volvo parked over a Dago Palm. I think that this is two separate questions. I will eat too much Thai food so that there will be two of me so that I can answer each of them separately without my brain getting tangled up like a sewer-soaked washrag dangling from a ceiling fan chain. Physical Existence can only exist within a Time and Space Continuum. However, if I think selfishly, I would answer this question in terms of MY existence. I am a self, and I exist. My consciousness is based solely on the material existence of my being in this carbon-based life-form which carries it and maintains it. My soul, however . . .
Nasim (A.K.A Mohammed)
2009-01-08 05:00:31 UTC
For anything to exist, two things are must - space and time.



No point can exist without space. This is made obvious by the fact that points are the very basic units of space...



Secondly, nothing can exist for 0 amount of time. A point existing for NO amount of time doesn't actually exist.

It wouldn't be wrong to classify these as axioms...



Space-time continuum comprises both these essential components (space and time).



From the above furnished material, I conclude that existance is NOT possible beyond space-time continuum.



HTH
anonymous
2009-01-09 00:16:10 UTC
The reason Einstein believed in preexistence is because he couldn't cope with the idea of probability(God does not roll a dice) but quantum physics learns us that he was wrong! For me personally I can put it this way: When I look at the stars at night I realize that my existence is bound to this time and place and not beyond and I feel insignificant, tiny and neglectful in an ever expanding universe BUT at the other end at a certain place on a certain time with or without a certain person I can have an emotion that exceeds all these boundaries so for me I have to say YES to your question! Greets!
Friedrich Wilhelm
2009-01-08 05:18:51 UTC
The true existence is a spiritual one, in a non-material way without space, gravitation and time. A degeneration or downward transformation, resp. of energy results in matter, with a material existence. So, the answer is Yes.
anonymous
2009-01-08 05:22:32 UTC
That's a philosophical question than a scientific one.



I believe without space and time dimensions, we do not exist.



Some religious people probably will disagree with me on that, but that's OK.



If it gives them peace of mind and hope, it's great for them.
mcclaflin
2016-10-07 08:56:30 UTC
undemanding answer: you are able to't conceive of infinity. a limiteless line is previous your comprehension. in actuality, a line that's no longer countless must be drawn that must be previous your comprehension. Oh, you have an thought of it, a theory of what it may be like, yet certainly with the ability to hold infinity in a human thoughts is impossible shop via symbols, and that's no longer the assumption itself. God is like that. we would see a tiny element, all issues may be manifestations of God, yet that by no skill skill we conceive the totality of God. ok, once you're nevertheless shaking your head, enable's do the kindergarten rationalization. "If my lunch is exterior of your sight and listening to and/or is previous human theory, then how are you able to justify understanding any of my lunch? What technique did you employ to discover the existence of this unknowable, unreachable lunch, which incorporates the indisputable fact that my lunch isn't interior human theory in the 1st place (being hidden in my vehicle in the trunk)? If this lunch manifests itself in actuality via a few skill by way of some variety of exhibiting of my lunch, like my yogurt, then isn't lunch no longer previous sight and listening to of people?" In different words, you won't have the ability to be certain all of him, so which you think of that hence he won't have the ability to truly exist. you spot area of him, so which you experience you are able to anticipate he won't have the ability to be previous something you will discover. form of a stupid argument. Care to attempt lower back? i'm no longer non secular, yet I certainly have a low tolerance for philosophical nonsense.
Billy Butthead
2009-01-08 13:21:31 UTC
It didn't precede it and it will and it will not survive it.

Existence sprang from nothing with a finite potential and when it ceases it will enter a state of eternal nothing an incident that occurred ran it's course and will never occur again.
destiny
2009-01-08 05:11:19 UTC
Buenas Dias Hector....



Well...the guy "Nasim" above me has put everything in the right perspective and has commented quite intelligently. I couldn't have said it any better....and he's absolutely CORRECT with his profound statement ! More power to him !



Hope, you're doing fine...Over here, we're stuck in heavy snow & freezing temperatures of -27°C ....How do I wish to "trade" with you -smile- Greetings from (cold-***) Germany....your friend...Annette***
Choo Choo
2009-01-08 08:11:00 UTC
There is no way for any of us who have not experienced such an event to know the answer
anonymous
2009-01-08 04:27:38 UTC
yes
Jonny
2009-01-08 09:32:36 UTC
i hope so :D


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