187- Solving the Issue of Time and Space
To clarify this notion better, imagine a lineup of soldiers. The first person on the right is called number one. Now, if he goes to the end of the line, he will become the last person. Similarly, each soldier has a different position in the lineup than the others, demonstrating that the terms “first” and “last” are relative and not actual. You start your journey in Tehran, and you choose Paris as your destination. You arrive in Paris and then come back to Tehran. On your return trip, your starting point becomes Paris, and your destination is Tehran. Therefore, Tehran and Paris are both your starting points and your destination points. These were human-made words without tangible reality. They replaced one another with the simplest of incidents. Had their terms been actual, they would not have changed their characteristics this way.
You have come out of your house and are going to the mall. The starting point is your home, and the endpoint is the mall. Now you want to return, the starting point is the mall, and your home is the endpoint. The issue becomes reverse. Tell me, which is the start, and which is the end?
Now consider this issue in a broader sense. Compare it with anything big or small. You will see that there are no beginnings and no end. So, this is a straightforward and vivid notion and not a theory.
Since everything can be divided into two, and that result can also be divided into two, and the fact that these divisions can continue infinitely, therefore, the universe is infinite.
Zeno of Elea
The body can be divided many times until it vanishes and turns into dust and becomes the original substance.
Plato
Some Islamic philosophers have considered two existences: one concept is the existence of infinite and eternal, and the other is the finite and which exists in it. The first existence is God that has created the second existence, who are the beings.
Humankind can never comprehend the entity of God and His traits.
Philo, the Hellenistic Jewish philosopher
God encompasses time and space.
Philo
There exist no contradictions between the infinite God and the existence of finite objects.
Baruch Spinoza
If we cannot perceive the infinite, then we cannot believe in it either.
Immanuel Kant
The geometrical space is not a form in which objects are within it. Instead, it is a thought and the outcome of rational action. To adapt to the numbers in the outside world, we needed to empty the space from its contents. We can continue this uncontained container to infinity and divide it into infinite capacities.
Andrew Schally
From a point outside a straight line, only one line can be drawn; this line would be parallel to the first line. Some philosophers consider space to be a reality according to this assumption.
Euclid
Many scientists (including Lobachevsky, a geometry professor) proved that we either draw infinite lines parallel to the first line or not draw any lines. Such claims from followers of non-Euclidean geometry are also true because they consider the space like a sphere or a pseudo-sphere or similar shapes.
Schally
The word “infinite” did not exist at the beginning of humanity; however, people knew its meaning spiritually in their thoughts even though they had no words for it.
Max Müller
The world is one for all human beings. It was not created by Gods or ordinary people and has always existed and will always exist. It is like an eternal fire that is lit and put off according to a sound principle. Duality is inferior to Unity, and Unity is God Himself.
Heraclitus
The oldest beings are of four kinds: Father, Silence, wisdom, and justice. The latter two are created from the former two.
Pythagoras
The universe is an accident. However, this notion is very difficult to prove. It would be a very significant deed if someone succeeded in proving this.
Moses Ben Meimon (Maimonides)
The issue of time and space is scrutinized deeper than other issues over the past few years. We can say that it is the accumulation of 25 years of mental invention, encompassed by 25 centuries of wisdom and philosophy.
Memento Larousse encyclopedique & illustre.
I believe that time and space are entirely a relative concept. Time is the existence within another existence that is subject to an order of divergence.
Leibnitz