If time is a concept will the end of time matter?

Question

If time is a concept will the end of time matter?

Answer 1

sure it does

that is why we need to do the best with our time and the best means something we won't regret...

Answer 2

Time is more than a concept, it is a dimension.

Space and time woven together.

They exists as a single fabric of the cosmos.

Answer 3

That would just mean that people stop believing in it right....?

Answer 4

Nice play on words, but with no matter there can be no time.

Answer 5

Not in the slightest.

Ask anyone in Ireland - time doesnt exist - so therefore it cant end.

Mine's half a guinness please!

Answer 6

Time is bunk. Lunchtime doubly so.

Answer 7

no, because it was just a concept and therefore not real

Answer 8

The nature of time cannot be contemplated without the physicality of its existence. I for instance would not know what time is, or, if there is anything in existence as time, if I would not have experienced its reality though all things subjected to changes and modifications in time. It seems clear enough at least in human perception that if there is no matter there would be no time, that time perhaps was created alongside the creation of all other things of the universe, as their common characteristic, or a governing principle for progression and change. I think that the thought that time is fallacious. I think time is just as much a reality in the existence of everything as matter is. There would be nothing in place without their specific physical forms, and there would be no thought or a human concept either without the facility of human physical brain to formulate, contain and process.

Then there is purely imaginative side to the matter of your question, as I may ask what if there is no time, as it has just ended? Then I can imagine that it would not matter indeed as there would be no way to realise that it has happened ever. Then from here we enter  into the wild world of metaphysical possibilities and wonder as what a world could be without time, without things changing in time, a world of pure reality perhaps where imaging would be creating, and thinking doing, a world where one could bring into existence entire universes with faith and then destroy them all through doubt. I see then that time is not only the concept but the concept of concepts, if we choose to look at it this way. Time is the reason of the world of matter and of things. It is what we have common with the nature of all things in the world. We can have our timeless concepts that we can conceive, develop and modify in an instant what can be so powerful as to change the nature of our world, where time in unchanging, constant and real, it is the nature the world.

Answer 9

I believe that time itself is not a concept, but rather the measurement of time IS a concept. Either way the end of time (wether it is time that we see as a universal process or time as a measurement) then the end of time will matter as it will yield any further process. However, when time ends it is not like we can continue after time because we are governed by time. So in another way it does not matter because with the end of time comes the end of our own existence.

Answer 10

time as in a clock measuring minutes and hours is purely a human concept. time as a universal continuum does exist, if it didn't, we wouldn't exist as solid matter.  if there was an end to time (in the universal sense) it would mean that we would cease to exist. so yes it would matter to humans, but does it matter in the grand scheme of things, to god for instance?  it depends on what you believe.  

Answer 11

Time is not just a concept, although we do have a concept of time. It is also external from us; it is a part of space.

Answer 12

What time is this supposed to happen?

Answer 13

The mentioning of the end of time in the Bible is to me nonsense which is out of touch with reality. I'm not saying that this world won't at some time in the future come to an end.

We develop concepts about everything of which we are aware. That does not mean that our perception and hence the concept are accurate. The dictionary defines eternity as beginningless and endless time. Anything which does not have a beginning cannot cease to exist. But time is not physical because it is not spatial. It is the constant duration of the eternal now. But there is no past to go to and the future does not yet exist. Yet, there will be a future "now" because the now is not anything physical and therefore cannot cease to exist. All of the ways in which we have to measure time, such as clocks, are actually movements within space (even if it is an atomic clock, it is based on physical changes) which we intuitively along with our nervous system seem to move in consistently regular movements. But those movements are actually changes within time and not time itself. Even if there were no physical movements (changes), the continuation of a perfectly still universe would be during a time period. There just wouldn't be any way to measure that amount of time, because the only way we have of measuring time is anywhere from years (the revolutions of the earth around the sun) to the method of measuring time with an atomic clock (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_cloc... where it is the movement of radiation which is used.  

Answer 14

If time is a concept then the end of time is a concept.

Answer 15

depends where you want to be at the end of time.... heaven or h**l........

Answer 16

technically the end of time would be when all timepieces and calendars etc stop working, so of course it will matter - I paid good money for this watch, and I'll be taking it straight back to the shop.

Answer 17

time doesnt exist, it is merely an invention of man to help organise your life