xelabale wrote:We're pretty sure our universe started with a big bang, but that doesn't mean there wasn't a universe before that one, and that one ad infinitum. This doesn't break any physics rules except that physics breaks down at the singularity as by our current calculations the singularity must be infinitely small and infinitely heavy.
Our physics can't handle infinity whilst predicting infinity, and yet you tell me our physics precludes something existing for infinity amount of time?
That's just weird.
"Our physics"...kinda funny. Like we have patented it or something. Our physics is just a very small subset of the truth (with a little bit of "wrong!" mixed in).
That idea of
"we can't be here if it took an infinite amount of time because an infinite amount of time couldn't have passed yet" that WidowMakers said just demonstrates that we can't get our minds around ideas like infinity. We learn about a number line ...,-3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3,... and nod our heads and say "I get it" but then someone comes along and says
"1 could never happen because it would taken an infinite amount of counting to get to 1" and we nod our heads and say "I get it". No people, we don't get it.
Rats in a cage.
