(April 6, 2013 at 2:42 am)Muslim Scholar Wrote:Aye... I see... but All the events since the big bang, including the big bang, are finite.(April 2, 2013 at 5:52 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Clearly, you don't know what a dimension is.That's why I did not use the full definition of time
Time is a dimension. That's the universal definition of time.
It is a special dimension along which all other 3 spatial dimensions move in a fixed direction, but a dimension nonetheless.
And if you start with a faulty concept of something so basic, how do you expect to arrive at a proper conclusion?
Using only part of the definition of time is a key in this proof
I did not prove that time had a start
I proved that events did
and proved also that the first event must be singular
But this means I can arbitrarily choose the point t=0. My previous sentence put it at the big bang, but I could as well have put it, like you did, at 00:00:00 of 01/Jan/2000 (CET - Central European Time).
All your argument then rests on the fact that your time has a start. And you then mix your time with the dimension time, and claim that the dimension time has a start.
I say you can have events before the big bang... infinite events, maybe, but we have no way of measuring anything beyond the big bang, so it will, most likely, forever remain an open question.
This next one, I'm going to add the whole quotes:
(April 6, 2013 at 2:42 am)Muslim Scholar Wrote:pocaracas Wrote:Set 1 is clearly finite(April 2, 2013 at 2:10 am)Muslim Scholar Wrote:Then what did you define it as? I read a finite series of elements, when you wrote " All Statuses separated from (1/1/2000 00:00:00) by a finite number of seconds "pocaracas Wrote:You defined Set1 as a finite set.I didn't
but it is finite because the nature of its elements.
So, you defined something, which "is clearly finite", but you didn't define it as finite...