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(September 9, 2013 at 2:07 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote:
Proponents of cosmological arguments usually have a supporting argument in an argument against an infinite past. This is off the top of my head, but I think it usually goes something like this:
Quote:1) An actual infinite can not exist, because an infinite series cannot be traversed.
2) A beginningless past is an actual infinite.
3) Therefore the past is not infinite, and there was an absolute beginning.
Honestly, I'm not entirely sure I have a gripe with the argument, but I've seen more mathematically-savvy people take issue with it and its proponents.
Are there problems with proposing an infinite past?
Yes. it's a meaningless question. The evidence tells us that time began at the moment of the expansion of the singularity which birthed our universe. Since the concept 'infinite time' is a measure of chronological value, it ceases to have any meaning in an environment where there is no time. It's like saying that 'oblivion' is a measure of 'infinite existence'.
