(April 18, 2016 at 7:45 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(April 18, 2016 at 1:17 pm)SteveII Wrote: This is typically where you would give an example...post a link, I would like to read it.
http://www.closertotruth.com/series/why-...ideo-49960
So, Carroll believes that 1) the universe does not necessarily exist and 2) he is willing to accept that the quantum mechanics are a brute fact--existing for infinity past. Note that he give no evidence for these beliefs. This is not a scientific theory it has become a philosophical statement. Another way of putting that is that we should use our observations and intuition about the causal principle up until it is inconvenient and then dismiss it without reason.
Anyway, since nothing necessarily exists, this encounters the logical problem of past infinite events. So, to my point, what actual infinities do physicists think exists (actually based in science and not metaphysics)?