Can't be happy with people. Can't be happy without people. Therefore heaven (as commonly defined) is technically not possible. Putting myself in God's...
In the beginning there would have been one of the following: 1. Some stuff that somehow made the universe 2. God and some stuff. God made the universe...
Causality absolutely requires a first cause. Take an example; the break off shot in pool is the first cause of the pack scattering around the table. T...
OK there are some nontheistic religions; but if you look across the globe and historically, I believe theistic religions are more common. There are no...
I think that monotheism grew out of polytheism but the roots of monotheism are clear in polytheism - there is usually some sort of chief god who was r...
The idea of monotheism arose independently in different human cultures. It is quite a natural idea to look at creation and wonder who made it. I think...
There is at least 10^53 kg of matter in the observable universe. That needs a macro explanation involving causality not a micro explanation. The most ...
To be responsible for all the matter/energy of the Big Bang, the system must be huge; IE a classical system first and a quantum system second. The sys...
So SOA0 is timeless and permanent? SOA0 must have permanent existence else it's something from nothing. Then the first change (SOA0->SOA1) causes time...
God may or may not be physical; to cause and evade the Big Bang would seem to need an extra-dimensional or non-material quality. We have no examples o...
OK but that makes SOA0 in a state that sounds like what I call timelessness. Also, the need for SOA0 not to arise ex nihilo suggests that it has perma...
The Big Bang was a singleton; natural events always come in pluralities. Even given finite time, if the Big Bang was natural, we should expect similar...
I don't see how something can evolve towards stability and cause the big bang at the same time - thats surely a contradiction. And it's more than just...
Our everyday experience and knowledge of science tells us that systems tend to equilibrium naturally. I did not feel it was necessary to justify somet...
Virtually anything is possible but you have to ask whats probable. Would the system reach equilibrium before generating a Big Bang. I feel that is hig...
Equilibrium is the state that all isolated system head towards. Most likely it is gravitational equilibrium with all matter/energy in one big black ho...
All isolated systems head towards equilibrium; that is about as fundamental principle as we have discovered in science and your proposed model is flau...
I think your model leads to equilibrium. I also cannot see how a field would be responsible for time and the Big Bang. There is an assumption that qua...
That is logically impossible. t0 cannot exist unless there is something causally before it to define it. That has to be the start of time. There is al...
If change were time, there would be no way for time to come about. The creation of time takes change. But I don't think that's how space time works; t...
By that logic if I had two clocks, one digital (little motion), one mechanical (lots of motion), time would run quicker for the mechanical clock. We h...
Imagine - a clock - empty space next to the clock Are you saying you think time does not change for the empty space (where there is no motion) and onl...
I think time enables motion. Change maybe possible without time. Photons are timeless yet they appear and disappear - suggestive of change without tim...
It's not a moment of time prior to the first moment of time; it is something timeless that is causally before the first moment of time. Time cannot st...
Maybe God's first motion creates some form of time/causality? Is this the same time/causality as ours? I am not sure. Or maybe God is quite different....
I am not sure. It appears that it was the Big Bang that was the start of spacetime. Matter and time are closely related, time runs slower in the prese...
But in 4D spacetime, time is already treated in a very similar manner to space - IE 4d space. So I was suggesting that 4d space proper could preexist ...
Something permanent has to preexist time to cause time. That implies something timeless which is something 'other than only now' so the A theory can't...
The opposite of 4d spacetime, presentism, is incompatible with a start of time: 1. Assume only now exists (presentism) 2. So before the start of time ...
If you think about 4d spacetime it is called eternalism because everything has eternal existence - past/present/future all real and permanent. So in a...
Not quite sure what you mean. In terms of causation, the first cause has to be self driven, so that leads to 1 or 2. In terms of equilibrium, the argu...
I'm not sure. In the beginning, one of the following must have existed: 1. God 2. God and some stuff 3. Some stuff My feeling is 3 leads to equilibriu...
Permanent can't apply to something inside of time - that would mean 'always' in time and always has no start/coming to being. So the requirement that ...
There is a start of time, there must be something permanent causally before that to create time. I personally think can't get something from nothing h...
I think spacetime could be 'real': - Things that are real in some sense always have starts, things that are imaginary do not - There was a reality bef...
There is a timeless first cause that has existed permanently that starts everything else. That is the start of time and causality. I don't see how any...
Time can't just start on its own. It can't emerge from anything unless there is something pre-existing it causally. Time cannot start without somethin...
Something logically must exist before time - I proved that using Aquinas's 2nd way and you have past it by without comment. Alternatively: an infinite...
A first cause has to exist prior to time - that is the only logically way anything could have come about: - Can’t get something from nothing - So some...
lim sin x n-> infinity It already works, just read the above as 'n tends to but never reaches actual infinity'. Thats a better definition. For example...
I don't see why calculus cannot be defined purely in terms of potential infinity. A limit should approach but never reach actual infinity: lim 1/n n->...
Because addition with transfinite 'numbers' does not make sense, nor does subtraction. This is indicative of the fact the transfinite are not numbers....
Thinking about this a bit more, Carroll’s proposal does not make sense: So you have this timeless unstable initial state. It should tend towards equil...
The universe is a macro phenomena, so the initial state is a macro state. If it is unstable, that implies it is changing in the macro world. That impl...
Well I think the idea is that if entropy causes time, there could be timeless processes that lead time to emerge via causing entropy. But it does not ...
By 'emergent phenomenon from lower dimensions upward' you mean time is emergent from timeless thermodynamic phenomena? If entropy increases causes tim...
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