What Is Time? One Researcher Shares His Exploration

Physicist Sean Carroll has built up a bit of a name for himself by tackling one of the age old questions that no one has been able to fully explain: What is time? Earlier this month he gave an interview with Wired where he tried to explain his theories in layman's terms. "I’m trying to understand how time works. And that’s a huge question that has lots of different aspects to it. A lot of them go back to Einstein and spacetime and how we measure time using clocks. But the particular aspect of time that I’m interested in is the arrow of time: the fact that the past is different from the future. We remember the past but we don’t remember the future. There are irreversible processes. There are things that happen, like you turn an egg into an omelet, but you can’t turn an omelet into an egg."

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Re:Islamic view of "time"

[afabbro]

The Islamic view of time and the universe in general is that what has happened, is happening and will happen has already been determined ("it is written"). What has happened can never be undone and this is mentioned many-many times in the Quran.

The Islamic view of time is plagiarized from other views of time, just as the Quran is plagiarized from other sources. There is really nothing original in Islam, which is why it's so tediously dull to study.