# The End of Time. NOW what??????? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 4, 2010, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-time-now-what/523598 "2010-01-04T07:07:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![St.Anger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@St.Anger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Anger)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-time-now-what/523598/1 "2010-01-04T07:07:46Z")
What everyday things would happen in real life if time just “stopped”? Would my watch stop working? Would I stop aging? Would I have the day off from work? Or would I be frozen in some sort of metaphysical state until it started again? Or is time truly unstoppable? ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-time-now-what/523598/2 "2010-01-04T07:12:19Z")
Slow news day? If time could stop and it stopped, you wouldn’t realise it. Once you became unfrozen you’d just continue on the way you were going. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-time-now-what/523598/3 "2010-01-04T07:13:26Z")
Time is a very real and necessary component of the universe, as one Prof. A. Einstein [suggested.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_relativity) Without it the universe would cease. ---
**Author:** ![beo.thuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ab992/32.png) [@beo.thuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beo.thuck)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-time-now-what/523598/4 "2010-01-04T07:16:55Z")
Does anybody REALLY know what time it is? ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-time-now-what/523598/5 "2010-01-04T07:17:50Z")
If time stopped nothing would happen. Things happening is a function of time. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-time-now-what/523598/6 "2010-01-04T07:18:51Z")
> [@beo.thuck](#): > > Does anybody REALLY know what time it is? Yes, it’s the movement of objects through space in relation to one another. ---
**Author:** ![beo.thuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ab992/32.png) [@beo.thuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beo.thuck)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-time-now-what/523598/7 "2010-01-04T07:20:24Z")
If time stopped, time stopping would be the situation. Stuff would still happen is what I’m thinking. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-time-now-what/523598/8 "2010-01-04T07:22:35Z")
The Time Lords would become energy beings of pure consciousness, or something like that. Oh, you mean in this universe? Nothing would happen. Literally. ---
**Author:** ![beo.thuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ab992/32.png) [@beo.thuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beo.thuck)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-time-now-what/523598/9 "2010-01-04T07:27:13Z")
If time PERFECTLY stopped then something like nothing might happen. ---
**Author:** ![beo.thuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ab992/32.png) [@beo.thuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beo.thuck)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-time-now-what/523598/10 "2010-01-04T07:28:16Z")
Its TIME for me to go to sleep - peace all 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-time-now-what/523598/11 "2010-01-04T12:44:51Z")
> [@beo.thuck](#): > > Does anybody REALLY know what time it is? Does anybody really care? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-time-now-what/523598/12 "2010-01-04T12:58:21Z")
> [@beo.thuck](#): > > Does anybody REALLY know what time it is? Whatever it is, lunchtime is doubly so. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-time-now-what/523598/13 "2010-01-04T13:08:42Z")
> [@St.Anger](#): > > What everyday things would happen in real life if time just “stopped”? Robert Jordan would be out of work. ---
**Author:** ![Chief\_Pedant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@Chief\_Pedant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chief_Pedant)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-time-now-what/523598/14 "2010-01-04T13:16:32Z")
Functionally, different moments in time represent alternate distributions of matter and energy in space (obviously matter and energy are the same thing, and maybe space, too). If time stops, nothing happens. Forever, which would be a long time since nothing would be happening. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-time-now-what/523598/15 "2010-01-04T13:29:07Z")
If time paused how would you measure how long the pause was? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-time-now-what/523598/16 "2010-01-04T14:05:27Z")
> [@Grumman](#): > > Slow news day? > > If time could stop and it stopped, you wouldn’t realise it. Once you became unfrozen you’d just continue on the way you were going. Who’s to say that doesn’t happen all the time? ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-time-now-what/523598/17 "2010-01-04T15:24:25Z")
> [@Eutychus](#): > > Robert Jordan would be out of work. Pretty sure he is. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-time-now-what/523598/18 "2010-01-04T15:26:01Z")
All sports except for baseball would come to a halt. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-time-now-what/523598/19 "2010-01-04T16:26:59Z")
Time stopping makes as much sense as space stopping. Nothing will “happen,” since things exist in space, and they do things in time. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-time-now-what/523598/20 "2010-01-04T17:12:18Z")
> [@beo.thuck](#): > > If time stopped, time stopping would be the situation. Stuff would still happen is what I’m thinking. No, nothing would happen, because time is the measurement of things happening. If things are happening then time is moving. Time is a dimension just like horizontal and vertical, and depth. Time doesn’t ‘move’ it doesn’t ‘stop’, bodies move through the various dimensions in relationship to one another, and we call this movement, ‘time’. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-time-now-what/523598.md?page=2)