• Question: Why does time exist?

    Asked by to Daren, Lynne, Phillip, Simon on 17 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Phillip Manning answered on 17 Jun 2014:

      Why is possibly the difficult part, when and how is more explainable. Sometimes ‘why’ is not the best starting point.

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      anon answered on 17 Jun 2014:

      Why does matter exist? Everything started from the big bang, including time!

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      Daren Fearon answered on 17 Jun 2014:

      Because without it Dr Who would be rather boring. Like The Doctor says: “People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint – it’s more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly… time-y wimey… stuff.”

      In short, I don’t know.

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      Lynne Thomas answered on 17 Jun 2014:

      I don’t know, much like most of the reasons behind our existence! Science is very good at explaining how things that we observe happen, but it is very hard to answer the why question.

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      Simon Redfern answered on 17 Jun 2014:

      this is a great question, and one that I think many people would struggle to answer (including me). But the interesting thing about time is that it only goes in one direction, unlike the other familiar dimensions of the universe.

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