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No, that just means YOU last forever, everything else has a shelf life - as depressing as that sounds.

Well that was my point. At least you'll last forever. I'm too selfish to care about much else - as horrible as that sounds.

"Planets come and go. Stars perish. Matter disperses, coalesces, forms into other patterns, other worlds. Nothing can be eternal."

Time is eternal.

Time is too abstract to call it eternal, yesterday is no longer here, so it's like it died. On the other hand, energy is eternal or very close to it, it cannot disappear or be destroyed, it can only change forms.

Yesterday is just an instance of time, not time itself, which is a dimension, like width, height and length. Dimensions are eternal, as they cannot cease to exist, so LOD got it right.

Energy is eternal too, indeed.

"Consider, can the universe be justifiably called infinite? Doubtful. It may not have a discernable end, but it had a beginning, and its component parts definitely have a limited cosmological shelf-life. Splitting hairs or not, if history tells us anything, it's that scientists make very poor poets. We're all just a ship of fools chasing phantoms heedless of what really underwrites natural law."

But, I digress. Time also cannot exist if there is nothing for it to affect. If there is 'nothing' in the universe because it has long expired, then time would expire along with it. Until such a point that something comes into existance that can be observed by time once again.

This is also the best profile comments thread ever.

This stuff would make Reuben Langdon's day.

Immortality isn't "Living forever" rather it's seeing everyone else "Die" and watching them pass as you stay still never moving forward.

^ Unfortunately that's also a part of mortal life as well. What is it they say, "Life is nothing but a bunch of goodbyes."

I agree with @Foxtrot94 on the matter of time. And the definition of immortality is never dying or decaying. An immortal being can still be killed. However, you can also say that a statue commemorating someone's life is a way of preserving the memory of them and what they achieved, almost like keeping them alive in spirit. There are different ways to look at the word, but I do think time is eternal.

I forget where the quote is from, but my favourite one on the matter is: "Immortality is not that a man cannot die, but how many times he has come back from death"

^ Kinda like Captain Jack Harkness from Torchwood.