Not bad! I would like to see your thoughts regarding my Message 91.
Sure.
You suffer from the misapprehension that only the physical realm is real or can have the property of time.
I think it dishonest to call this a misapprehension. It is the logical conclusion to draw from an empirical standpoint that only physical things have properties, non-physical things being entirely nonexistent.
What is truly needed is a better definition is the timeless realm in which the Designer/Creator inhabits.
I'm not sure how that would help us much. We cannot separate ourselves or our observations from time, and so even a Creator/Designer who exists, at least in part, outside of time would be wholly inaccessible to our senses and we should find no scientific reason for concluding that such a Creator/Designer exists.
Let's accept for a moment the accuracy of the colliding branes theory. If colliding branes were generating innumerable universes, each would have its own spacetime. Is it possible one universe could have been formed "prior" to another? Of course! Each universe would have no direct time relationship to another but it is conceivable that some being could be outside of all these universes and He could identify which universe came into existence first and which last.
You still cannot speak of things outside of time with terms such as 'prior' and 'before'. It's just nonsensical. If the only place where Time exists is
within the separate universes, then it truly is not possible for one universe to exist 'prior' to another. If it
is possible, we must conclude that there is some Master Time realm in which all of these many universes exist and against which they can all be measured in regards their temporal relationships with one another.
In the physical realm of our universe, time is a function of the universe. But that does not preclude the possibility time does not exist elsewhere.
Exactly; but it would, by your own definitions, require that such a place where time does not exist be the same as such a place where the physical realm does not exist. And any place like that is simply inaccessible to the inquiries of science. Science cannot probe the non-physical. So any theory that postulates non-physical things is, by definition, unscientific.
Even a timeless realm could have an arrow of time without beginning or end.
And this makes no sense. How does something which is timeless have any time whatsoever? If there is 'an arrow of time without beginning or end', then the realm is not really timeless.
When you contemplate the multiverse you can see that time can have a separate existence outside of our universe. Do you see?
Exactly like I said above: to speak of the temporal relationships between the multiple universes requires that some form of time exists outside of all of them and in common with all of them.
But this, of course, only pushes the question back even further and solves nothing. Because we can just as well consider all of those multiple universes and the Master Time realm that contains them to be a single super Universe, in which case all of the questions currently asked about our own universe get asked about the super Universe.
So the solution solves nothing. Do you see?
Jon
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