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@nielsnielsen For the book of Smolin "Time reborn" see his presentation and talk youtube.com/watch?v=ATxi0_-7HqQ
– Jo Wehler
Commented Oct 25, 2023 at 18:06
Do you have an opinion on the trustworthiness of Smolin's conclusions? I found Time Reborn useful but lack the expertise to properly judge or recommend it.
– g s
Commented Oct 25, 2023 at 19:42
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@gs, i am in the same boat as you. -NN
– niels nielsen
Commented Oct 25, 2023 at 21:44
@8Mad0Manc8: Oh, it's even worse than that. Your entire premise is bunk, as there are models of reality, particularly conformal cyclic models, where there is no earliest time. Instead, what we perceive as the beginning of time is merely the beginning of the current inflationary regime within our locally observable universe. The universe could be expanding forever, without beginning or end, giving rise to physics as energy self-interacts across expanding spacetime.
– Corbin
Commented Oct 26, 2023 at 18:51
Yes Roger Penrose (I think) proposed that but simply put it is the proposition that time does have a beginning and it also does not have a beginning. However, I point you to temporal finitism, and the proposition that If time had no beginning how do we get to the present by succesive addition from an infinite past.
– 8Mad0Manc8
Commented Oct 26, 2023 at 20:47

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