A Rational Cosmology: Why Time Cannot Have a Beginning or End
Essay XXV
By G. Stolyarov II, published Jun 11, 2007
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It is impossible for time to have either a beginning or an end. This follows from the fact that time is not an entity. Whereas each entity must have a temporal origin in order to, at any given instant, exhibit a finite measurement of the quality, time, it is senseless to speak of the temporal origin of any "pure quality," for qualities cannot exist apart from the entities that exhibit them.
The only legitimate statement that can be made regarding the "origin of a quality" in fact pertains to the origin of the first entity exhibiting such a quality. In loose terms, it may be fitting to refer to a certain "chronological origin of life," since life is an emergent quality built upon a variety of more rudimentary qualities and relationships, and the entities exhibiting these qualities and relationships first combined to bring about the emergent quality, "life," some 3.1 billion years ago.
Any quality that derives itself from some more basic qualities and relationships (always, in each instance, provided by the entities directly exhibiting them), could have a temporal origin, though it is not known whether every emergent quality has such an origin. For example, the question of whether or not any historical entity exhibiting the color red was the first entity to do so has not yet been resolved.
But ubiquitous qualities, such as mass, volume, the spatial dimensions, and time, cannot have had any beginning, for all entities must exhibit them, and no entity can lay claim to the distinction of having been the first to do so.
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Ubiquitous qualities, such as mass, volume, the spatial dimensions, and time, cannot have had any beginning, for all entities must exhibit them, and no entity can lay claim to the distinction of having been the first to do so.
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