Actual Infinity in Reality?

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Why (Almost All) Cosmologists are Atheists

Interestingly, here's what Sean Carroll had to say on causality from the paper linked to in the quote:

In particular, we should emphasize that there is no place in this view for common philosophical concepts such as “cause and effect” or “purpose”. From the perspective of modern science, events don’t have purposes or causes; they simply conform to the laws of nature. In particular,
there is no need to invoke any mechanism to “sustain” a physical system or to keep it going; it would require an additional layer of complexity for a system to cease following its patterns than for it to simply continue to do so. Believing otherwise is a relic of a certain metaphysical way of thinking; these notions are useful in an informal way for human beings, but are not a part of the rigorous scientific description of the world. Of course scientists do talk about “causality”, but this is a description of the relationship between patterns and boundary conditions; it is a derived concept, not a fundamental one. If we know the state of a system at one time, and the laws governing its dynamics, we can calculate the state of the system
at some later time. You might be tempted to say that the particular state at the first time “caused” the state to be what it was at the second time; but it would be just as correct to say that the second state caused the first. According to the materialist worldview, then, structures and patterns are all there are — we don’t need any ancillary notions.

So it's not an idiosyncratic view I just happen to personally hold. This is the view on causality that physicists themselves adhere to as well.