I How 'big' is the present moment in terms of time?

[Gondur]

Time can be divided three ways
Time in the future
Time in the present
Time in the past

We are living in the 'present'.

My question: how 'big' is this present time?

It might help if you think of a pen placed on a white sheet of paper. The pen represents our present time. The white space above the pen is the future, below is the past.

So how 'big' is the present time?

i.e. is it 0.0000000000000001 seconds

or even 0.00000... infinitesimally small?

Thanks.

 

[davenn]

So how 'big' is the present time?

what do you think and why ?

Warning, this thread topic is bordering on philosophy and may be closed

 

[anorlunda]

That's not really a scientific question. Everyone in different contexts can define what they mean by the present. That makes it a matter of language, not science.

 

[anorlunda]

On second thought. @davenn was right. There is no way this thread is likely to lead to scientific discussion, so I locked it.