在希腊人那里,比方德谟克里特,整个宇宙只是原子和空虚,也就是说,只有实体和空间,而没有时间;同样的观点后来又为古罗马人卢克莱修所重复,他们的时空观在古代世界代表一个阶段(留待讲马克思的时空观时再来回顾它);从基督教神学大师奥古斯丁开始了另一个阶段,但即使是在基督教神学家那里,时间与空间都离不开物质.不过,在他们那里,不仅时间是有开端的(不然的话,就无法回答别人的诘问),而且是由上帝创造的。 In the Greeks, for example, Democritus, the entire universe was only atoms and emptiness, that is to say, only physical and spatial, without time; the same view was later repeated by the ancient Roman Lucretius, whose The concept of space-time represents a stage in the ancient world (let's review it when Marx's concept of space-time is left open); another stage started with Augustine, the great theology of Christian theology. But even in Christian theologians, time and space are inseparable from materialism. However, there is not only a beginning of time in them (or, otherwise, no answer to questions of others), but God's creation.