Where exactly am I assuming that time has a start? Do you believe that a greater than any finite number of days has passed? Every moment has another m...
For anyone not familiar with it, there is Einstein's train: 1. A passenger sits in the middle of a train with two light guns 2. He fires each gun at e...
If the vertical axis of the picture is time and the horizontal is space then creation of a picture does not put you within time. Indeed you as a 3D ob...
Not even light can escape a black hole, so they should not be able to give birth to universes. I do not believe quantum fluctuations can give birth to...
It is not question begging it is just the way reality works: - Does today define what happens tomorrow? - Or does tomorrow define what happens today? ...
I think if we consider any system over a finite period of time; then clearly it has an initial state that defines all subsequent states and the finite...
We have established separately that there is a start of time. The start of time requires a cause. An uncaused cause. Quantum fields I feel are part of...
So we are talking about an infinite causal regress right? You'd agree they have no first moment? If we take an example of a finite causal regress: 1. ...
Are you claiming the future defines the past? If you had thought it through, you would appreciate that the impossibility of perpetual motion implies a...
But what is causality if it is not a feature of time. So something from beyond time must be uncaused; it has no 'before' so it is by definition uncaus...
Well I disagree; time is a logical, sequential phenomenon so induction works just fine to prove it has a start. Time with the way one moment defines t...
The universe can only have one of the following as its average long term behaviour: 1. Expanding. This is what science says. 2. Contracting. Impossibl...
What you are missing is that the past defines the future and an infinite past can never be a fully defined past because it has no initial starting sta...
If you create a painting, do you exist in it? - God can't exist in time because he'd be subject to the 2nd law of thermodynamics and therefore dead. -...
We can't, but we know that an infinite past essentially comes with a moment removed at the start so such a construction is therefore impossible. Infin...
If we remove any a moment or time interval if you prefer, then all subsequent moments or time intervals become undefined. Time with no start means no ...
I think that time is an important part of the argument; its impossible to exist in an uncaused state within time, so the uncaused cause has to be beyo...
Could the counting eternal alien be on a finite number? No, then he would not be eternal. Could the counting eternal alien be on a infinite number? No...
A. Ultimately, God's first action (be that creation of spacetime or whatever) has to be uncaused. So this action counts as an event and it has no caus...
But the mass of the sequence must have changed. But the maths says the sequence is identical so it has the same mass. So its a contradiction. A peeled...
If I add one banana to the sequence, I should get back something that is someway different from the original sequence. The fact that I get the same se...
But we have added a banana to the sequence so we have definitely changed it. So we have changed the sequence and it has not changed - contradiction. I...
There is this hypothesis that ties in with the theme of the OP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-energy_universe But I feel it cannot explain the or...
We change the sequence (its a sequence of identical bananas; not a set) to include an extra identical banana and we get back an identical sequence of ...
I am using a revised version of the PSR: 'everything in time has a cause'. You think everything has existed forever I think. That is impossible. Imagi...
1. Assume that a substance has existed forever in spacetime 2. Then it has no temporal start point 3. If it has no temporal start point, it has no tem...
A couple of more proofs that time has a start: Actual infinity is impossible (see https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/7379/infinite-bananas/p1) ...
It depends on how exactly time works: - If time is fully future real all the time, then the spotlight of time could start anywhere as you say. But ful...
Not fine with that. An actual infinity of anything is impossible IMO. And the initial cause must be timeless. And I don't think it is true that someth...
I am mainly deist in belief. So science and God combined. I think of God as some sort of benevolent, timeless architect of the universe. The communion...
Well I agree it is unlikely we are in a simulation. But say that base reality has a 100^100 more particles than our universe. Then that leaves a lot o...
I'm not sure how you can cause something without it being an event. Do you think God is some sort of Boltzmann Brain? That seems impossible, the parti...
For example say the simulation runs at 60fps. But in base reality each frame takes 1 second to calculate. So each minute in base reality corresponds t...
Im not sure how you can claim that God can prove that X does not exist where X is some other god. It is impossible to prove that something does not ex...
Our sort of familiar causation (cause precedes effect) needs time. We do not understand what timeless causation could mean so it is hard to answer. Go...
Not really. Everything would be calibrated to the start/end of time - the Big Bang / Big Crunch. So a moment would have in its future all the moments ...
I am not entirely sure but causation (cause precedes effect) cannot hold as we know it beyond time. God would be able to express himself in spacetime ...
Think about 4d spacetime. There is no past/present/future in 4d spacetime. All moments have the same status. So I introduced the moving spotlight idea...
Once we are beyond time, we are beyond the familiar comfort of cause and effect. And therefore beyond the possibility of an infinite causal regress. I...
I imagine a moving spotlight rotating around the circle of time. Where the light shines, that is 'now'. So all moments have a real existence but only ...
How can something cause without itself being effected? It must be self-driven. The first cause cannot be an automation because they need creating. So ...
In our minds we can treat numbers as labels with no length. But we are talking about time; that is in reality, something must have greater than zero w...
Thank you Tim. The creator of the universe (if you believe there is one) must be very smart, easily smart enough to work out my little rap on Pascal's...
No number can have a length greater than zero and less than all reals IMO. So it must be the imaginary construct of 1/? that you refer to? As you know...
I Agree it is improbable that we live in a simulation: 1. Every particle in the observed universe (10^80) interacts with every other particle via grav...
The proof is actually all intelligent beings must be benevolent: 1. You are an evil person. You meet a good person. You are punished 2. You are an evi...
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