“How can a being that’s NEVER seen a beginning even figure out what a beginning is to be able to make a beginning in the first place?”
Either it’s “mysterious” like you say (I still hold that atheism is infinitely MORE mysterious!) or god experienced a beginning that god didn’t create.
Quantum (whatever you’re trying to say here (just looks like a mash of words to me to make it sound intelligent and true)) anyways ‘quantum’ is a subset of otherness. Otherness is exactly what space is, there is no other possible solution to that definition.
My definition of time is also perfect. Patterned motion. Again, it’s self evidently true. If motion has no pattern, no being can perceive that motion. Since the motion can be perceived, it’s obviously patterned in some form.
Again, god cannot exist without otherness, god cannot exist without patterned motion. God is dependent on these, these are not dependent upon god.
I just have to laugh that you’re avoiding my last post.
Anyways to answer this question. You’re the one in this thread who declared that the universe was discrete. Not me. Not gib. Both of us pointed out that even if existence is composed of digital rather than analogue that it could still go back forever.
Between the units? As in, between each frame? I wouldn’t think there is any time between consecutive chunks of time regardless of quantization or not (that’s what consecutive means).
So during each frame, the universe stands still? And then when it moves to the next frame, every particle “leaps” to its next position?
By “upper limit”, I assume these units could be shorter, but it couldn’t be much longer.
In any case, this just comes across to me as an idea. Maybe it’s true, maybe it isn’t. Even if it’s true, I don’t see why it requires a “first frame”.