Musings about Existence

Time and Space - two essential constituents of  the physical world.

Space, the infinitely spread space throughout the universe is a requisite for time.

Time  on a very basic level is measured as a duration of a cyclical event. For example, the "time" it takes for earth to rotate on its axis, or the time the earth takes to go around sun, or the time moon takes to go around earth and so on. In short, time is duration of the "event".

So, could there be a meaning to time if there wasn't any space? Would there be any reference points to measure time between the "start" and "stop"?  If there is no physical space, no events would occur and consequently nothing to measure it against, time would lose its meaning. 

On an individual level, let's say that there are no events happening in your life. How does time go on? Let's say you are completely still, shouldn't time stop for you? 

Firstly, space isn't still, you can imagine space as flowing gravity( imagine you are in a flowing river, the water keeps on flowing while you stand there in stillness ) . Secondly, we never are still, even when you are perfectly still physically, your muscles are moving, brain working, blood flowing through your body, the nervous system signals flowing throughout ( and of course, our mind constantly wanders here and there all the time 😆😆).

On a macrocosmic level, planets are revolving around a star, stars are revolving around the center of galaxy, or on microcosmic level, electrons are revolving around nucleus of the atom. In short, the realm of "physical" doesn't offer a great solution for stillness. And thus anything in the physical world is irrevocably tied with time.

So where did time and space originate from? 

I quote the famous line from the movie Matrix - "Everything That Has A Beginning Has An End.

If we ought to believe in the Big Bang theory, the beginning of time and space would be that. As space grew, time grew. By extrapolation of the same logic ( only if we ought to believe the beginning/end mandate), the time/space would grow to certain point and start shrinking back to it's original state of nothingness( not sure if it would be gradual or abrupt though). Now if we observe, the very foundation of this system is based on duality (beginning/end). Every entity in this system also seems to be dual in nature. For example, day-night, hot-cold, high-low, etc..

Even though the system is dual in nature, the system doesn't seem to have a specific beginning and end.

When did it start, when will it end, who started it and why? Is duality closely tied with the cyclicality of nature? How long will this cyclical nature of existence continue? From the moment of its creation to its maintenance and then to its destruction followed by another creation?

In this dual and cyclical physical existence, nothing absolute seems to exist, everything  seems to be relative. Even the  five senses of our body are characterized by the same duality/relativity( presence or absence of something, for example  sight for lack of light, smell for lack of  odor, touch for lack of gross physical matter, hearing for lack of sound, etc.)

So, is there anything really absolute in nature? If something absolute exists, has anyone ever experienced it? And how would we ever comprehend any absolute entity logically? The realms of logic seems to end when there is nothing to relate against. 

Another dilemma that arises when you accept that such a physical world exists. Is there a creator of this physical world? We are talking about a physical system which is intelligent enough on its own to come to  existence and vanish back to nothingness and then come back again?

Only if you want to believe that this it came into be by accident, you would be averse to the idea of metaphysical. So, is there a metaphysical? If there is, then what have we done to explore it? 🙄