Well, Im a 20 year old guy, and I really love reading all I can on two fields, that being physics and biology (although my main passion is mathematics).
I still never really got to understand how time could have "started". Are there any good hypothesis on this? I mean, time had to have started at some point, so let's call this t=0.
Obviously, there can be nothing before t=0 since time is absolute. So what really got it going?
I was thinking of this today, and the only idea I myself can come up with that time could be more related to what mathematically is a limit. Thinking backwards, maybe we would never arrive at t=0, but it could approach it.
Think of it somewhere around the terms of an equation (lets just make one up) that looks something like (t^2 + 1)/t. In this equation, t could never equal "0", but it can approach infinitely close to zero (from the positive side of course). Using limits, we could find the value as t---> to 0, but that's besides the point.
This would work sorta like, the farther time strays away from 0, the faster time goes by (speed of time is really relative, and no matter how fast it goes, we could never feel that, because we are confined by it). BUT, the interesting this is, that the closer you get to t=0, the slower time is, and it would NEVER really reach zero, but just get infinitely close to it.
Yea, that's the only idea I could think up of to explain how there could ever be a t=0 starting point. I'd love to hear people's ideas of what I wrote down, and also any existing hypothesis that talks about the same thing.
Thanks,
Matt.
Hehe, to add to the idea of mine I was talking about, maybe time itself goes back and forth. We could never know if time moved backwards and forwards, fluctuating from one direction to another. That way, since time could go infinitely backwards (if it was a limit approaching zero), and could go infinitely forward, since there would be no end to time, it would make some sense. And interestingly enough, even if it was random which direction time would take, and that fluctuated back and forth, it would on average, do more forward than backwards, since at going forwards, it would speed up, and backwards, slow down.
