Actual Infinity in Reality?

[Edwardo Piet]

Time either isn't real or the present is all that exists. The A theory of time is correct in that the past, present and future are real distinctions you can make.... and the B theory's notion of all times existing equally at the same time makes no sense because only the present exists..... but then that's just it. Only the present exists but the past and future are still distinctions you can make hypotehtically. Because the past merely refers to what was present and the future merely refers to "whatever will be present".

So on the one hand you can just say that time is an illusion because science can only study phenomena and not noumena..... but then on the other hand you can just say that time itself is noumenal but that doesn't mean it's an illusion. Just because we can't experience it doesn't mean it's illusory. In fact it means it can't be, because illusions have to be experienced. It just means that what we normally refer to as time is indeed an illusion.... but then that isn't really time. It's what we think it is.

So it depends whether by "time" you refer to the illusion that we tend to think of as time, or whether you're referring to what time actually is.

I really don't think the idea of infinity is relevant to time because nothing happened before time began anyway. So obviously we can't stretch back infinitely to a time before time.... because there is no time before time.