Existence and Infinity (Warning: major rambling)
September 3, 2012 at 5:16 pm
(This post was last modified: September 3, 2012 at 7:02 pm by Categories+Sheaves.)
(September 3, 2012 at 4:24 pm)idunno Wrote: Suppose you traverse an infinite distance of time (something I still think is -impossible) is there time after that?I mean, it's certainly not necessary. If you think of time as a standard real line, there aren't any points at infinity and there's no need for further elaboration. That being said, there's no shortage of topological shenanigans* you can pull here, (see earlier examples + the Alexandroff line) but we won't end up with something that looks like our nice, linear continuum if we do that stuff. So if you DO have something after that, it couldn't come after this "infinite time" in the same sense that the next moment will come after this one.
*Come to think of it, you could just take the regular old real line and severely mess with its distance metric. But if we want the stuff "after" the infinite time thing to occur, we'd probably need to take a 'timeless' position like IATIA's, that things/events exist in a sense unrelated to their happening right now or having happened in some timeline that produces the current moment after a finite amount of time (existing as a sort of direct history).
(September 3, 2012 at 4:53 pm)IATIA Wrote: Time There is no time, there is no space. Everything exists, all universes, all possibilities.Seems to conflict with
(September 3, 2012 at 4:53 pm)IATIA Wrote: Our linear perception of this existence is what limits us to this universe and all that exists is what we perceive.or am I wrong?
