Delta4Embassy
Gold Member
Interesting question just arose in another thread, if we don't perceive time's passage before we're born (the universe existed for over 13 billion years before I was born but I have no perception of that time, and presumedly if you're dead it's the same way) then once we're dead wont the universe end and it's coming to an end also seem instaneous?
The universe will eventually create the last star, and then the last star will die and the universe will be dark and cold in something like a trillion years from now. In effect, it'll be a dead universe unless life finds a way to exist in total darkness and near abolute zero conditions.
But if we're dead and don't perceive the passage of time any more, wont the universe's ending seem instantaneous to us just as the billions of years before we were born seemed? Admittedly, before we were born, and after we die we don't exist. But religious people seem to think they'll die, spend some time dead, then be ressurected. But wont the time they spend being dead pass instantly to them? Whether 1000 years or billions, doesn't matter does it?
Further, if the universe ends with a big crunch or otherwise before it exhausts material for making stars, wont the whole heaven or hell notion be moot? Unless Heaven and Hell are outside the universe, if the universe ends, so do they.
The universe will eventually create the last star, and then the last star will die and the universe will be dark and cold in something like a trillion years from now. In effect, it'll be a dead universe unless life finds a way to exist in total darkness and near abolute zero conditions.
But if we're dead and don't perceive the passage of time any more, wont the universe's ending seem instantaneous to us just as the billions of years before we were born seemed? Admittedly, before we were born, and after we die we don't exist. But religious people seem to think they'll die, spend some time dead, then be ressurected. But wont the time they spend being dead pass instantly to them? Whether 1000 years or billions, doesn't matter does it?
Further, if the universe ends with a big crunch or otherwise before it exhausts material for making stars, wont the whole heaven or hell notion be moot? Unless Heaven and Hell are outside the universe, if the universe ends, so do they.