(February 14, 2018 at 12:57 pm)polymath257 Wrote:(February 14, 2018 at 12:42 pm)SteveII Wrote: No, not the "bet". That implies a theory. There is no theory that gets past the illogical concept of an actual infinity. What you are describing is a hope (the word Sean Carroll used). And that hope is driven by one thing only: a desire to have no beginning that then requires an explanation other than naturalism.
You have not shown that your personal view is logical. You don't have to post a scientific theory. You chose to post a video that brought that up. Post anything that shows that people believe an actual infinite number of real things is possible--from any reputable source.
http://www.iep.utm.edu/infinite/
Ah, a link!
I read it (and I think I have read it even before today). Nowhere in that entire article does it say anything about mathematicians or scientists believing that an actual infinite of concrete objects (or events) is possible. An infinite set is defined by its members and becomes its own thing. It is a useful fiction. There is nothing that relates it to the real word. Paste the section where you think I misunderstood.
BTW, somewhere in there it actually said spacetime is finite according to big bang-type models.
