(February 24, 2018 at 3:26 pm)polymath257 Wrote:(February 24, 2018 at 2:34 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: 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.
What is true of time is also true of space; if space is infinite, how did any of us arrive at this point??
I would like Steve (or, individuals with his Aristotelian mentality) to explain to me how a ray of light can behave as both a particle and a wave, both at the same time. And, why he's at it, explain how an electron can move from one point to another without crossing the intervening space between.
Dozens of these paradoxes exist, and no one doubts them, except religious fundamentalists and the outlier scholars they can cherry pick and quote (often, out of context) to support their extremist views.