Actual Infinity in Reality?

[polymath257]

Why are you counting *backwards*? Time moves forward! Nobody is counting backwards from today to the infinite past.

I'm not sure what you mean by there having to be an infinite number of *more* events before any particular moment of time. Where is the 'more'?

So, what we do *NOT* have is a situation

start----infinite time----now.

Instead, we have the situation for any point in the past,

infinite time----point in the past---finite time---now.

Bold mine.

I think what Steve means is, if we have time moving in a forward direction, how do we get to that one point in time from an infinite past?  How do you get to that single event in time without beginning somewhere?  If events are happening in succession, and time is infinite into the past, how would we ever arrive at a singular point in time?  Wouldn’t you have to start somewhere to get there?   I’m confused! Lol

Well, and that is the whole point. There is NOT a start. It is always going on. Any time you 'set down' will always have an infinite amount of time in its past.

So, yes, the basic issue is that there is not a start. There isn't a contradiction there, just a mind bender.