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Full Idea
If there were a plurality of heavens, in the same way the movement of each of them would be a time, so that many times would coexist.
Gist of Idea
If there were many cosmoses, each would have its own time, giving many times
Source
Aristotle (Physics [c.337 BCE], 218b3)
Book Ref
Democritus: 'Early Greek Phil VII: Democritus', ed/tr. Laks,A/Most,G [Harvard Loeb 2016], p.407
A Reaction
I take it that for Aristotle this is an absurdity, but for a modern cosmologist this is a real possibility. So which one is fastest? Can God rank them according to speed?
Related Idea
Idea 20911 There are unlimited worlds of varying sizes, some without life or water [Democritus, by Hippolytus]
| 13228 | There is no time without movement [Aristotle] |
| 20920 | If there were many cosmoses, each would have its own time, giving many times [Aristotle] |
| 1903 | If motion and rest are abolished, so is time [Sext.Empiricus] |
| 19384 | Space and time are the order of all possibilities, and don't just relate to what is actual [Leibniz] |
| 2100 | Space and time are purely relative [Leibniz] |
| 13181 | Time is the order of inconsistent possibilities [Leibniz] |
| 4189 | Time may be defined as the possibility of mutually exclusive conditions of the same thing [Schopenhauer] |
| 2608 | For McTaggart time is seen either as fixed, or as relative to events [McTaggart, by Ayer] |
| 2949 | We have the confused idea that time is a process of change [Lockwood] |
| 9504 | The relational view of space-time doesn't cover times and places where things could be [Bird] |