Devans99

I believe time enables change rather than change is time. If you have a clock and an empty piece of space next to it; surely time is running for both ...

As far as the universe goes, there are different types of equilibrium that it could end up in (given infinite time): - All the matter in one big black...

I am not sure what you mean. My argument is that any isolated system will end up in equilibrium after sufficiently long period of time, unless it has ...

I am not buying Carol's proposal: - Time runs at different rates due to special relativity; that has nothing to do with entropy. Entropy changing at d...

What causes the initial state to start causing everything else? Anything that causes something else is within some form of causality. All forms of cau...

But time and causality are inextricably linked and a first cause is required for causality. So if there is a start of time, there must be a timeless f...

Fields are a property of space, which is part of spacetime, which was created 14 billion years ago. There would be no fluctuation of these fields and ...

I don't agree with what you are saying on FTA but I don't want to keep going over the same old ground again. Welcome any comments of the following arg...

I'm still a little unclear where exactly does the matter/energy come from in Carroll's hypothesis? Or is it that it always existed? We don't see time ...

Space cannot have been expanding forever - if we trace back in time, there must have been a time when it was not expanding. So that is suggestive of e...

But bearing in mind all the other evidence in favour of God then there is a high probability that a design objective exists. This is evidence independ...

Not from God's perspective. But there are multiple coincidences, one for each of the 20 constants: - Chances of gravity being right strength - Chance ...

1. Quantum fluctuations do not produce matter; they respect the conservation of energy 2. If they did produce matter, we'd be at infinite matter densi...

If a one eyed dwarf has won a lottery at a billion to 1 and we have reason to suspect is rigged for one eyed dwarfs, the we should conclude the most l...

There is however a distinct chance that there is a reason - because God may exist. Every possible winner of the lottery is not unique in God's eyes; h...

I felt like I lost something; it hard to explain; my internal dialogue is quieter than I remember it before the incident. Interesting. IMO the impract...

I have been giving some thought to the closely related question of: are there any possible models for the universe without a first cause? The followin...

The anthropic principle says we the universe must be live supporting, the question we are trying to answer is: is why is it live supporting? There are...

Why is it not billion to one? Afraid you have lost me here. You can't do the above; the probability of naturalism is a billion to one. Just because I ...

"Size is the magnitude or dimensions of a thing. Size can be measured as length, width, height, diameter, perimeter, area, volume, or mass. In mathema...

A heap is an estimated size - looking at the heap is an act of rough measurement of size. That is possible only with finite objects; you cannot estima...

If the size is unmeasurable then it is not a size. Size has to be an integer. In our minds yes but it can't exist as a consistent mathematical object:...

An infinite set is unmeasurably bigger than a finite set. An infinite set therefore has no size. Or: size is an integer property. Infinity is not an i...

If it's subjective for God, its objective for everyone else. But the two alternatives are not equally likely: 1. By chance is a billion to one 2. By d...

Maybe I'm using inconsistent in the wrong way; set theory is not inconsistent within itself, but to me, Galileo's paradox and the other results biject...

Well how come nearly everything gets classified as aleph-naugh: the set of all square numbers, the set of all cubic numbers, the set of all fourth pow...

Sorry, using 2^S to denote the power set of S. The proof I gave is meant to show that the set of all sets does not exist. I maintain that it is the ca...

I don't see the need to assign a size to something that is unmeasurable - it leads to nothing useful, just paradoxes. I think it would have been bette...

We don't know if its a fixed lottery or not - we know nothing about it so we have to assume a high probability that it is rigged. - If its a fair lott...

I would not use bijection to arrive a conclusion about a sets size; bijection claims that there are the same number of rationals as naturals so it is ...

I would say if you only enter one lottery in your life and you know nothing about lotteries except it is a billion to one shot and you win, then it is...

Agreed, actual infinity is a usual mental aid. The problems can up start once you try to do anything logical with it. It's not a logical concept so it...

- I think potential infinity (calculus) is obviously very useful in maths and science - I think actual infinity has no useful applications

1. God is timeless so 14 billion years in not relevant 2. The whole universe is teeming with life. Most star systems will turn out life supporting lik...

That's a realistic attitude, but my personal experience is it is not shared by many mathematicians. They tend to get very defensive whenever infinity ...

My point on the dwarf is that his unique set of characteristics happen to correspond to what the lottery organiser wants to win the lottery (is the cl...

Basic arithmetic does not work at all with the transfinites: ?+1=? implies there exists something that when changed, does not change ?/2=? falls foul ...

1. Causality absolutely requires a first cause (else nothing would exist) 2. The first cause must be able to effect something without in itself being ...

OK whats wrong with this proof? Infinity is not a number: if infinity was a number, it would be a number X greater than all other numbers. But X+1>X

If you read any of the above, you would have gathered that I maintain infinity does not have a size so it is impossible to measure the size of infinit...

If you only entered one lottery in you life and you won at a billion to 1, would you not find it suspicious? This is the situation with the universe; ...

This is a nonsensical definition: for instance, it claims the even numbers are the same size as the natural numbers (as there is a one-to-one correspo...

Point out my instances of ignorance then...

I am listening its just I don't agree with what you are saying. So you are 100% certain God does not exist? How did you arrive at such a conclusion? I...

But there is a non-zero probability of the existence of God; IE someone was aiming for precisely that (a life supporting universe). And the non-zero p...

When all your 'guesses' point in the same direction?

You are not asking the right question. We already know it had to be that number else we'd not be here to talk about it. The question should be 'Why wa...

Yes but the question is why did it happen? Has a gigantic fluke come off? Or was it not a fluke at all? Its quite clear to me that the second is vastl...

But that happens to be the number that gives us a life supporting universe. Do you honestly not find that a staggering coincidence? If there was a God...

Take the strength of gravity for example; it could have been set to anything between 0 and ?. It's set precisely so that stars and planets can form an...