Starting a weekly questionaire-Philosophy?

[Granadilla]

Does time have a beginning?

[Kathleen Comber]

No. The idea of "beginning" is one that, in my opinion, human begins made up to make order out of chaos. Which isn't necessarily as bad thing, but we have put too much emphasis on it. A day never really begins, because it was in the making throughout the entire night, and the night was never born, because it was occurring as the sun gradually fell in the sky, which began when the sun began to rise, and so on.
The easiest way to picture time is as a sphere, but the sphere has no circumference, it is infinite. It is sort of like the space around a neutron in which an electron circles (just the space, not the electron). If you were to go back in time, you would see the sphere shrinking, but never disappearing. This is my opinion.

[C. S. C]

The concept of time was created by man so I suppose it begins at that point.

Other than that, if there is infinity then there is eternity which would extend both forward and backward with neither beginning nor end.

[Sophia]

since the beginning of time... just when had time began?

time immemorial I guess, is the appropriate word.

Did time have a beginning? Isaac Newton, whose disquisitions on time and space in his Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica became determinative for the classical concepts of space and time which reigned up until the Einsteinian revolution, held that it did not. Although Newton held to the traditional Christian doctrine of creatio ex nihilo, he did not think that the beginning of the universe implied the beginning of space and time. Notoriously Newton held that prior to the beginning of the universe, there existed an infinite duration devoid of all physical events, a beginningless time in which at some point a finite time ago the universe came into being. For Newton our familiar clock time is but a "sensible measure" of this absolute time, which, he says, "of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external, and by another name is called duration."

[Uncle Remus 54]

Time is relative. For God time does not exist. For everything existing in the universe it did. Later.

[Sick Puppy]

I don't know. We can only speculate.

[bigcherrybomb]

nope it is a circle. no end no beginning.