Arguments Against the Existence of Time
Time is certainly a useful concept, but does it have any objective existence?
I would first premise that “time” as we conceive of it can have no beginning and no end. I elaborated on that thought fully in another article, “On Limitations,” but I will give a brief explanation of how I reached that conclusion here as well.
If we were to rewind the clock of time back to the supposed beginning of existence, what would we have witnessed? To believe in a “beginning” implies the existence of a time of non-existence. Do you see the paradox in this? If for a moment we allowed for the position that “something came from nothing,” the dictates of semantics and rationality would quickly bring this impossibility in from the cold, and into the folds of harmonious reason, saying that though it be featureless and indescribable in every way, by its connection to what exists, and by its recognition in the mind, it must necessarily be ranked among the mass of things that exist.
The same applies to an end, for going into the ground implies the existence of this “ground,” just as much as being unearthed from it. Even if it is a black and empty nothingness, if it can be referred to, if it is the state preceding reality as we now know it, even if it is impossible to define or describe, it must be…
