RE: Eternal the originator of time - proof.
April 12, 2015 at 3:23 am
(This post was last modified: April 12, 2015 at 3:29 am by bennyboy.)
(April 12, 2015 at 1:24 am)robvalue Wrote: Our universe could have began when another universe became unstable and fragmented into new universes. The beginning of our time doesn't mean there wasn't a different, external timeline already running.
That's right. There are an infinite number of possible stories for cosmogony, and (presumably) only one right one. I'm fairly confident that it wasn't Sky Daddy, though. Let's play the "make up a story" game, because in 1 minute I can make up at least 5 explanations as good as the God idea:
1) Every subatomic particle is a universe-- THE universe, seen from a different perspective. Circles within circles within circles forever!
2) The universe is an unimaginably complex, multi-dimensional (and timeless) "tree," and I'm just traveling down one thread in one branch. All the "change" I see is an illusion-- all that is changing is my position along that thread as it weaves its way through those many dimensions.
3) Zero = Infinity. Therefore all that might be imagined to exist must exist.
4) I'm God, and I'm entertaining myself by imagining there's a universe that exists outside My holy Self.
5) It's turtles, all the way down.
All of these solve MysticKnights philosophical "problem," which is really just that reality (specifically, the reconciling of finite and infinite quantities in one framework) confuses him and he wants to invent a magic wand to wave it away.
