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And to my knowledge there can’t be a before time.

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Time is an illusion

It’s just a human made concept to create a reference to measure shit

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Absolutely not, time doesn’t give a shit about humans, and would happily pass without any conscious observer at all anywhere in the universe.

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Time is change, and exists whether or not we measure it.

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Well, yes and no. Time is a concept derived from a change in state. There is no “real” time. If the universe before the Big Bang existed in a static state, then the concept of time itself becomes meaningless. So in that case, it would be “before time” in a sense

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The state cannot have been absolutely static - if it was, the big bang would not have occurred, and the same stasis would be existing now, unchanged.

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65 points

Oh yeah? Then where did they film The Land Before Time? Checkmat

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Kompromat!

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Darn. I fold.

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I like how there are at least three things that are immediately recognizable as wrong with this question.

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14 points

Well, everyone has a skill I guess

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those are some egregious claims to not have a source.

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Can time really exist if there was no frame of reference to measure it? We can only detect it by motion or entropy. It’s the only way of “time”. So if there was some point where there was nothing that moved, then time wouldn’t exist.

For that matter, there’s no way of measuring if time is even consistent. If it were constantly speeding way up, or slowing way down, we’d have no way of knowing.

Time is just a figment of our imagination so we can keep track of movement. Just like magenta isn’t a real color.

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Duh, spacetime is a casual filter.

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