Jumped Up Chimpanzee writes:
Surely if time goes infinitely back, and something had always existed, it would never get to any point in the future. It couldn’t, because it would have to wait for an infinite amount of time to get to any point in the future.
So it seems impossible to me that anything could have always existed. It seems that everything, including time, must have a beginning.
Just to answer this question, there is nothing in the current laws of physics to suggest that something can't live arbitrarily long into the future.
As for having an arbitrarily long past, well there is nothing in the laws of physics to suggest that can't happen either. It can't happen in our universe because our universe is not infinitely long in the past direction. However this isn't a logical consequence of General Relativity or Quantum Field Theory, it's just a feature of our universe.
Of course it could be that a later theory of physics will have our universe's finite past as a logical consequence.