Infinite past... with a beginning?

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  1. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    Well, I am exploring where no one has gone before. It is to be expected I will get lost here and there. This is unfamiliar terrain, to everybody.
     
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  3. exchemist Valued Senior Member

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    You mean you just shoved two of your favourite buzzwords into Google, came up with this chunk of mathematics and now you want to pass it off as somehow profound, even though, or perhaps because, you don't understand a word of it.
     
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  5. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    And you feel qualified to pass that judgement?
    Tell me where I am wrong instead of slinging your ad hominems again.

    Admit it, you have no clue as to what I am talking about. Perhaps you are not intelligent enough to understand the mathematical nature of the universe. That's not my problem, it's yours.

    You'll have to do better if you want to intimidate me with your scientific acumen.

    I've given you every courtesy in the past, but my patience with you has finished. Click!
     
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  7. exchemist Valued Senior Member

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    Not possible to tell you where you are wrong as it is impossible to work out what you are saying.....oh wait, he's gone.

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  8. river

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    Write4U , response ;

    Disagree

    Timeless means , implies no ; beginning nor end .

    There is no first " instant " . Nor beginning .

    Further ; without the physical reality of all states of energy and matter , there is no time . Nor " timelessness " .

    The Physical Reality of the Universe is infinite . ( it can never not be , infinite ) . Therefore timeless when measured .
     
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  9. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    This universe did have a beginning. It is the moment after the BB and the chaotic "first instant" (inflationary epoch), when we started counting time as an emergent measurement of "duration" of the chronological evolution of the universe and we could apply the term "spacetime" and "space geometry", i.e. the formation of patterns within the spatial geometry.

    Before then there is only speculation such as "nothingness" or "timeless infinity", or as Bohm hypothesized "pure potential". No one really knows anything about a pre-BB condition, not that I am aware of.

    This is why theists are able to claim a supernatural creator being. Of course they also have no clue either, but use the opportunity to feed their ego of being created in God's image.
     
  10. river

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    I know one thing ; nothing is for infinity is nothing ; nothing can never become something .
     
  11. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    That is the real question isn't it?
    One can make a case that nothing is a permittive condition that allows for the emergence of something.
    One can also make a case that what appears to be nothing is a zero state of something which has as yet escaped our observation.
     
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  12. river

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    That is the real question isn't it?

    No you can't .

    Which then was never nothing in the first place .
     
  13. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    Yes you can. Nothing is a permittive condition. Actually, nothing is permittive of everything. It may not be causal to anything, but then again it might.
    Perhaps nothingness creates a demand for something.

    But lets turn it around. Are you claiming that nothing is a restrictive condition? How would that work?
    Right, but outside our observation. There are many things beyond our direct observational ability.

    Why do you think we spent billions of dollars to construct the Cern collider, just to observe a Higgs boson? There was only an abstract mathematical prediction of the existence of the Higgs. It is completely beyond our observation unless we imitate conditions which are about 100,000 times the temperature of the sun.
    That's why Peter Higgs received a Nobel prize.
    https://www.rt.com/op-ed/313922-cern-collider-hadron-higgs/

    And if there is something (or nothing) apart from this universe, how do you propose to study it, leave this universe?

    I think the point is that there are restrictions to our reality which we cannot overcome.
    Our Universe is a restrictive as well as a permittive condition. Nothing is fundamentally permittive of everything.
     
  14. river

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    Nothing is permittive only in a mathematical Universe .

    NOT in a physical Universe .
     
  15. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    Correct, and we do indeed live in a mathematical universe, however in a physical universe mathematical values and functions impose permissions and restrictions 1 + 1 = 2 (not 3)
     
  16. river

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    Any Real physical thing , an object , has mathematics associated with it . It has shape and depth .
     
  17. paddoboy Valued Senior Member

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    Best speculation has it that our universe did arise from nothing [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Universe_from_Nothing] Certainly Krauss received plenty of flack from philosophers and his rather demeaning opinion of them.

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    The other point is that while the universe arising from nothing, appears logical [as opposed to ID] perhaps its our definition of nothing that needs redefining.... perhaps nothing is the quantum foam from whence the BB evolved...perhaps this is as close to nothing as one can get...perhaps this existed for eternity...in effect the quantum foam is nothing.
     
  18. river

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    What is logical about nothing ?
     
  19. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    I agree, but IMO, it might go even more fundamental than quantum foam (pure potential) and may have a mathematical geometric underpinning, such as tensors, vectors, and scalars (which may be causal to the emergence of energetic quanta or quantum foam)?
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor
     
  20. river

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    Shapes , physical shapes . Is the underpinning of all tensors , vectors and scalars .
     
  21. paddoboy Valued Senior Member

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    I can't really comment on possible insight into future discoveries, but defining the quantum foam as "nothing" that has existed forever, is ever so more likely then any IDer, or more complicated scenario...I mean what is more imaginable fundamental then the quantum foam? at this stage of our knowledge.
     
  22. paddoboy Valued Senior Member

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    The "nothing" as redefined, is far more logical and reasonable then anything I have heard you suggest thus far.
     
  23. river

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    What is logical about nothing pad ?
     

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