(May 25, 2018 at 6:32 am)SteveII Wrote: Your points are in opposition to a first cause--not what I was addressing as to what properties can we infer from a first cause. These are two different things.
If I were to make arguments supporting a first cause, I would bring up the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) and you have the logical impossibility of an actual infinite number of events in the past--to name the big ones.
Now tell me how the bare existence of spacetime implies an "infinite number of events in the past".
Do keep in mind that a photon feels no time going by as it travels through space... and other fields behave the same.
I feel like you're still intuitively separating space and time and thinking about matter and causality in spacetime.