(April 27, 2016 at 12:41 pm)Time Traveler Wrote:(April 27, 2016 at 9:38 am)SteveII Wrote: How does the B-theory of time not have a front edge. My understanding is that it is like a yardstick. Every inch exists simultaneously. The yardstick does not begin to exist at the first inch. However, it does have a front edge. Am I misunderstanding?
While I think purely spatial analogies are certainly imperfect here, it might be more helpful to imagine the surface of a sphere rather than inches on a yardstick. Every point of the sphere exists simultaneously, but at any one point you would describe your current position relative to others. For example, if you are in Chicago, you would measure your relative position to Tokyo differently than if you were measuring from Sydney. But regardless of which city you are measuring from, at no point would you consider yourself on an "edge" of the earth. Even standing on the North Pole where you would regard every other position as South of yours wouldn't be considered an "edge."
Are you saying that for every time T there is slice prior to T? If so, you have an actual infinite of past events and, I guess, an actual infinite of future events. Isn't that a problem because an actual infinite of anything is not coherent?
