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[andrewducker]

When I try to think of time having already existed forever, then, I start to think about how some random configuration of particles that looked exactly like me has randomly been in this same spot, doing the same things I am doing...

WORSE, that this thing that looks and sounds like me and has the same name, has already done some of the things I've been meaning to do, and then I don't feel like doing them, cause A, I already did them, and B, I'll just have to do them again.

At which point the only thing I care to think about is the infinite other versions of me that have existed through time, sitting on a Lazy Boy recliner watching Cartoon Network all day, and give him a double thumbs up. Cause, in the end, that's what it's really all about. And that would be the clincher folks, undeniable proof that I am right.

I love infinity.  It allows for so many cool things.

Comments

[rainstorm.livejournal.com]

I always get confused by people who talk about the "beginning of time". What else was there? How can something like that have a beginning? I don't understand!

[andrewducker]

The thing is that when people say "The Beginning of Time" they usually mean either "When God created the Universe" or "The Big Bang".

And the thing about The Big Bang isn't that nothing happened before it, it's that by it's very definition we cannot tell what happened before it - our projections stop working about a millionth of a second after it occurred, so we can't look back and see what was happening at the time. The theories say stupid things like "The Universe was infinitely small, infinitely dense and infinitely hot" which make no sense to us.

So we tend to treat the big bang _as if_ it was the beginning of time, even though we really don't know what happened before it.