Jpatha writes:
P2 Time was created in the big bang and therefore did not pre-exist the big bang.
This premise is untrue. Time is. Period. The Big Bang is simply the origin from which we arbitrate our relative temporal observations. It is the convergence of all of our temporal measurements into the past, which so happen to converge because of our uniform motion with respect to eachother.
If you imagine an ordinary x-y graph, where the x and y axes intersect, at the coordinates (0,0), is the graph's origin. In a parallel analogy, universal time then is the measure of distance from any point on the graph to the origin. Nothing "precedes" the origin on this graph in this sense, because the distance between any point on the graph and the origin will always have a positive value. The past is a measure of distance from a point on the graph
to the origin. The present, then, is a threshold of motion, with each persently existing thing moving uniformly away from the origin in all directions -- this is where cosmologists contrived the notion of an expanding universe. The uniformity of motion makes time
appear constant and linear, but General Relativity has taught us that these are only appearances.
Furthermore, there is no point where our graph can be said to "begin" since it extends infinitely in all directions. The origin (0,0) is simply
where we choose to begin, and in fact that is how it acquired the coordinate label. Thus the notion that time was "created" at the Big Bang is erroneous.
If you imagine space-time as a flat graph (as physicists frequently do in order to conceptualize space-time curvature resulting from gravity), then the Big Bang is the origin of our graph, and the past is a measure of distance from a point on the graph to the origin. Your premise presumes a erroneous unidirectional linear conceptualization of time, and instead time is better conceived as planar.
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