Infinity, Eternity and the Absolute

by Rebecca Bynum (April 2013)

This assumes two essential things. One is that time is eternal and the other is that space is infinite. I wonder whether either of these premises is justified.

Time may profitably be described as limited eternity and space as limited infinity. Both of these limitations must be present before there can be anything other than the Absolute One. Exploding matter could not create time and space, because time and space had to be present before matter (or matter-energy) could explode within it.

Of course, there may be numerous levels of reality in between the spacetime realm of matter-energy and the absolute realm of infinity-eternity. We have no way of knowing, but until armchair philosophy is outlawed, it will still be permissible to wonder.

Albert Einstein

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