God does not create in time. Therefore, God does not lead to infinite regress. An indivisible unit of spacetime does not have space or time. It is that which creates space and time. I told you it was weird. It doesn’t have geometry either, but creates geometry. Don’t think of it like the tiniest cube of spacetime possible. It is rather an indivisible unit of spacetime reality.
Infinite regress is impossible, because time and causation must have a beginning. See OP Beginningless Time Paradox and Beginningless Causation Paradox.
‘Create’ is a temporal word. I understand status issues. I have lower status than other posters on this board (actually almost all of them). But you’re allowed to address me as well as gib.
I get it, I know you think addressing gib makes this thread more respectable (and to some extent I don’t disagree with that)…
I have no idea who gib is and give him no preferred status. I simply didn’t want to re-post his quote because it was too long and cumbersome for me to deal with in responding to. I don’t know who anyone is here. Not a clue. Don’t care.
Causation for God is not temporal. It’s logical or metaphysical causation. It simply means that God does it or without God it would not happen.
Never began or end IN TIME, true. But, special consideration must be given to their appearance and disappearance which is non-temporally caused. I see nothing wrong in using the word “cause”, especially in light of the lack of alternative words to describe this process.
By analogy, you can see how a timeless photon can become part of matter which is subject to time. Likewise, an indivisible unit of spacetime can be spaceless and timeless, but become part of the larger world of spacetime. Weird stuff.
“A photon cannot see or experience anything, as it turns out. It’s true that time doesn’t pass for a photon: in relativity, it represents what we call a null geodesic. It travels from its point-of-origin to its point-of-termination: from where an interaction creates (or emits) it to where another interaction destroys (or absorbs) it. This is exactly what happens whether it’s emission/absorption, emission/reflection, a scattering interaction, or any type of interplay with another particle.“
It means ‘cosmological constant’. How the fuck can you square something that by definition can’t be squared ?!?
My grandfather used to travel as a job to places like area 54 and Area 51 all over the world … one thing he told me… “don’t believe any of your physics books”