If the width of 'now' is zero, time never flows. 'now' cannot be infinitesimal width because actual infinity is metaphysically and logically impossibl...
I disagree, moments are arranged sequently so they must be representable by the real number line or the naturals. In either case, if you remove a prev...
The more evil there is in the world, the more you appreciate heaven when you get there. Heaven lasts longer than earth so it is therefore the optimal ...
If universes get created from 'time to time' naturally and time is infinite then that leads to infinite density. Back to the drawing board with that i...
God's environment cannot be fine-tuned for life because there is no-one to do the fine tuning. So God must not need a fine-tuned environment. We are n...
Time cannot have always existed: 1. Assume time has always existed 2. Call the current state of the universe X 3. Then the universe has been in state ...
But the first cause must be causally effective; able to cause an effect without itself being caused. So it must be intelligent and not just a 'simple ...
I am not attributing magic properties to God. All I am claiming is he is timeless and that is not in itself magical. And without God, we are left with...
All point says is 'If there is no nth moment there is no nth+1 moment'. In the case of time ending, then there is an nth moment, so argument does not ...
You would not remember anything so it will feel like living a whole new life. Great minds think alike they say. I'm not saying we have minds as great ...
It is possible to prove God is benevolent but I don't believe one can prove him omni-benevolence? So assuming God is just benevolent, maybe he calcula...
I think that we as creatures of time are not familiar with any other state of existence. But when we examine the logic of the situation: - God cannot ...
That is not a counter argument. I do not fully understand anything. My beliefs are merely what I think is probable (has a greater than 50% probability...
But the universe exists in time and no brute fact can exist in time - it would have no temporal start. If it has no temporal start, it has no temporal...
But something beyond time must exist. There must be at least one 'brute fact' in reality or else the result is nothing (null universe). Referring to S...
The first cause of everything has to be beyond time - that is surely the only logical answer to the chicken and egg problem. So for such a timeless en...
I am merely pointing out that if ? is absurd (which it is - see the OP) then so is 1/?. There is so much math I could learn and life is too short to l...
It does not really tell us anything about actual infinity - they merely assume such a quantity (and its inverse) exist. It may have applications but t...
I have the opinion that reality is 100% logical and anywhere where it seems illogical is just due to our lack of understanding. So we can use logic to...
I agree they are concepts, not numbers. Focusing on actual infinity only, it is an illogical concept that can only have existence in our minds. If we ...
I think you are referring to potential infinity? I don't deny the existence of potential infinities; the argument in the OP is squarely aimed at actua...
I believe that spacetime started expanding 14 billion years ago at a finite rate, so hence spacetime must be finite currently. I believe there would b...
Yes but I cannot wait millennia, I need answers in my lifetime. So I have to use probability. I estimate it is 95% likely that time has a start. So I ...
Because even advanced matter (IE atoms/molecules) would not form in the vast majority of hypothetical universes. If you had a computer program generat...
How do you tell the difference between front and back? You could fire photons at the discrete object. But the minimum wavelength of a photon is much l...
Does a quark have a front or back? You can imagine it having so in your mind, but in reality it is an indivisible whole and it is not possible to addr...
OK BGV theorem: 1. An expanding universe (the only sort possible) must have a spacetime boundary at the start. 2. Einstein says (and we have empirical...
I think the world is made of finite parts; an actual infinity of anything is impossible; see the argument in the OP. What would an actual infinity of ...
I think it is likely that reality has a nature akin to a computer screen made out of pixels. So each discrete part has a size of 1 (say). It makes sen...
That applies for all n belonging to the natural numbers. But the proof is about what happens at the point of actual infinity, which is not a natural n...
? leads to contradictions so cannot exist. So neither can the inverse (1/?) exist. I think that my hand exists in actuality and is composed of discret...
That is using a theist definition of God. I use a deist definition of God. He is more like a timeless architect, a designer, as opposed to the omnipot...
Fundamentally everything is composed of parts and the parts cannot be zero sized or infinitely small. So they must have non-zero finite size. This has...
OK. 1. The universe is indubitably fine tuned for life and the WAP/SAP are both flawed explanations of why. So there can be only one explanation, that...
This is I think the Weak Anthropic Principle to which you refer. It explains that the universe must be life supporting because we are here to experien...
To think about time, it is handy to introduce numbering (IE a clock). I am not claiming time is actually numbered, just that in order to think about t...
The fine tuning argument says there must be something external to spacetime to do the fine-tuning. If you remove God, you are left with something comp...
No it does not. My mind thinks of levitating dogs on a regular basis. No dogs levitate in reality. The mind is fundamentally illogical so the impossib...
But all balls numbered less than ? have been removed from the bag at the end of actually infinite steps. So there are zero balls in the bag. Mathemati...
The universe is fine-tuned for life. Saying the universe existed before time means there is no room for a fine tuner so that leaves a billions to one ...
And those parts are discrete and finite: 1. The parts can't be size zero or size undefined as then they could not constitute the whole 2. The parts ca...
It is not over my head; you simply hold an illogical/indefensible viewpoint. I'm sure if you had any valid counter arguments, you would have given the...
Exactly, the buck has to stop somewhere. And logic suggests it stops at an intelligent, timeless, fine-tuner. Things don't start by themselves. I have...
Objects are only infinitely divisible in our minds. The process of infinitely dividing an object goes on forever so it is not possible to complete - s...
What starts gravity? The no boundary hypothesis is nonsensical in the view of the fine-tuned nature of the universe; there must be a fine-tuner and th...
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