Devans99

That makes sense. What does not make sense is that they both contain an actually infinite and therefore equal amount of information. One is larger tha...

We are just creatures of cause and effect. Our inputs determine our outputs. So we are logical entities who just appear to act illogically due to our ...

Imagine an interval of 2 and 4 I mean...

Everyday experience leads me to believe nature is logical. My knowledge of astronomy suggests this extends to the universe as a whole. So I think appl...

We have everyday experience to go by. Everything is caused by something else seems to be the way the world works. We have no everyday experience of th...

That is a very illogical belief IMO. 'Everything is an effect' makes sense as an axiom.

We can compare analog quantities perfectly well. You are clearly on a different planet to me. There is just no way a light year has identical granular...

But the car can only be said to have instantaneous in a continuum; in a discrete world it would have velocity over a discrete interval rather than an ...

My argument starts with the simple axiom ‘all effects have causes’ and proceeds via deduction to circular time. You either disagree with my axiom or m...

Not sure I see what you mean. A calculation is just purely in our heads; that does not mean an object actually has instantaneous velocity. Discrete sp...

Ah sorry. The information can be in analog form; number of bits is merely a way to quantify it. Indeed that is the problem; the fact that position is ...

I don't think we will ever agree on this point. You did not answer my argument that the information content of a larger region of space-time must be l...

I just read the synopsis on Wikipedia. Does sound very interesting!

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I'm not sure where else to put it. The time cursor must have originally started at the Big Bang I feel. My argument suggests an eternal universe but i...

For a circle the choice of start/end point is arbitrary. In the case of the universe; the most obvious place to put it is the Big Bang/Big Crunch. The...

I think entropy is unrelated to time; they just happen to point in the same direction; one does not cause the other. I'm not sure. I imagine the time ...

I think time runs always in the same direction. Once the universe starts contracting and compressing, entropy comes down (smaller universe = less micr...

The axiom I'm using ('all effects have causes') pretty much rules out Presentism by the way: What caused the first cause? There is nothing in the pres...

I also think that time has a cursor that moves in one direction only around the circle of time. This allows us to know the direction of time.

I think what happens with entropy during the big crunch is that the whole universe compresses down to a single discrete space time 'cell'. So the univ...

It seems time is uni-directional. Entropy increases with time and is then reset to zero entropy by the big crunch. Bi-directionality I am not sure abo...

The end of time causes the start of time. The Big Crunch causes the Big Bang. It seems the only way out of the infinite regress / chicken and egg prob...

Time is an eternal circle. It causes itself. Nothing else is needed?

I would argue that our progress through time is progress through the continuum at the most fundamental level so it requires actual infinity. As does o...

Yes I think so. It was all motivated by misplaced belief I think: Cantor an Co thought God was infinite so infinity was shoe-horned into mathematics f...

I see no model of continuity that does not need actual infinity. If you point me to such a model, I stand corrected, but they all seem to use actual i...

But we arrive at the conclusion there must have been a first cause by consideration of cause and effect. So I'd argue the start of the prime mover arg...

The last effect. IE The Big Crunch caused the Big Bang.

My arguments are not shot through with paradoxes. Cantor's, Galileo's, Hilbert's Hotel, Zeno's... what a mess actual infinity has made of maths and sc...

But don't you see the original prime mover is self-contradictory - it posits that we can use the axiom 'all effects have causes' to trace backwards in...

I've looked at it; its rubbish. They declare in the axiom of infinity that actual infinity exists and prove absolutely nothing. They then move on to p...

I think my reply to Rank Amateur above covers your points.

I'm saying the original prime mover argument is basically logical until it reaches the point of the 'unmoved mover' which is not a logical concept. So...

How I am 'presupposing the discreteness of quantity'? X in my proof could be real or natural; I made no assumptions. That is a fair proof that actual ...

Well I do actually believe in God but I'm currently unsure how he fits in. - I do not believe the concept of an unmoved mover is logically sound. - An...

Everything is finite in my view: time is a single, finite circle. Thats the only way out of the chicken and egg problem. It cannot be a series of diff...

How on earth could you construct a continuum? It requires us to construct an actual infinity of possible positions for particles to occupy. Thats impo...

It is not a done deal. The astronomers can't even agree on how fast the universe is expanding: https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/12/06...

Your continuum is just magic - how can 1 light year be structurally the same as 1 millimetre? I don't believe in magic so I have to take a different v...

Yes but its the one where there is only one Big Bang and one Big Crunch with time being a loop.

My own I admit. If you imagine a particle in an interval, the position of the particle relative to the beginning of the interval can be regarded as in...

That's paradoxical. It works ok in the mind but not in reality: If I have a real line length 1 mile, it contains more information than a real line len...

Problem is that means a second and a year would have the same information content which does not seem right. Clearly more information in a year - the ...

What structure does time have if it's not a series of instants? But if an event has no duration it would not exist. 'Now' could not exist if it had ze...

Maybe I'm getting confused, but: E = mc² ? ? (1 - v² ? c²) So m = E × ? (1 - v² ? c²) / c² So time (in the v term) determines mass. So something in th...

I need to read up on relativity. Thanks. If mass increases with speed, then the universe must be speed-aware? In some sense the universe must know how...

But the force of gravity is attractive, why should it slow motion? Anyhow, there are no massive objects involved in the case of an object is travellin...

If time is just change/motion, why does it run slower when an object travels near the speed of light or is near an intense gravity field? If time is j...

Or Let length of now = L, then: L/second > L/year -> L x year > L x second Equality not satisfied with L=0 or L=1/? L must be finite and > 0 IE time i...