If the universe is infinitely old, how did Today ever get here?

That's not what's being discussed. What's being discussed is how you can go through an infinite amount of time before somehow are arriving at today. An infinitely old universe is not bounded at an origin point, and it's not an issue of counting a finite series.
The origin point is now.
A universe has no day or night.
 
^^ So, after dozens of posts you still cannot precisely explain how we arrived at the present time if the universe had to somehow pass through an infinite amount of time before today.
The universe has no day or night.
Gunky answered this question for you already.
The fact you are studiously dodging an explanation is very telling.
Gunky already answered this question for you.
All you can do is complain about the use of Earth based time units,
I'm not. I'm just wondering where you come up with your magick numbers.
something you never complained about before in your life until this thread.
Irrelevance fallacy.
When cosmologists told you previously the universe was 13.7 billion years old, you never complained about the time units they used. You knew exactly what they were talking about.
You don't get to speak for everyone, Sybil. Omniscience fallacy. The time unit is specified (a year). Where did you come up with 13.7 billion years?
 
Gunky answered this question for you already.
That wasn't an explanation. We do not get arbitrarily dropped on an infinite timeline out of sheer coincidence. Time unfolds sequentially. Our place in time is 13.7 billion years after the Big Band, and I don't see how it's logically possible we could have passed through an infinite amount of time prior to the Big Bang in order to reach today.

Any attempt to arbitrarily 'drop' us onto a point on the timeline, or invoke circular or cyclical timelines are equivalent to invoking miracles, or invoking Eastern religious concepts of time. It's not scientific or logical.

You don't get to speak for everyone, Sybil. Omniscience fallacy. The time unit is specified (a year). Where did you come up with 13.7 billion years?
Cosmologists came up with the widely accepted value of 13.7 billion years since the Big Bang. You should have been taught this in 7th grade science class.
 
When I used to dabble in psychedelic drugs this was a very intriguing question. Now I just leave it up to god to keep track of and count my blessings each day. Whatever a day means to me.
 
On a related note, I was reading one of MIchio Kaku's books, Hyperspace, and on page 163 (see here as page 172 or 366)


He showed strings and gravitational force interacting and I recognized that there was a parallel between what he was saying and electrical theory using inductance and capacitance, particularly in coaxial cable. That got me thinking, What if there was a resonant frequency of the universe, like you can have in electrical circuits?

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That wasn't an explanation.
Yes it was. The number 5 is a specific number in an infinite series.
We do not get arbitrarily dropped on an infinite timeline out of sheer coincidence.
Random words ignored.
Time unfolds sequentially.
Time is not a sequence.
Our place in time is 13.7 billion years after the Big Band,
What Big Band???
You weren't alive 13.7 billion years ago. Where are you getting this number from?
and I don't see how it's logically possible we could have passed through an infinite amount of time prior to the Big Bang in order to reach today.
The Theory of the Big Bang has no time before the Big Bang.
Any attempt to arbitrarily 'drop' us onto a point on the timeline,
Random words ignored.
or invoke circular or cyclical timelines
A line is not a circle.
are equivalent to invoking miracles,
Buzzwords are not miracles.
or invoking Eastern religious concepts of time.
Nothing special about any Eastern religion concerning time.
It's not scientific or logical.
Yet you are trying to make out to be.
Cosmologists came up with the widely accepted value of 13.7 billion years since the Big Bang.
So...no one. You just made up the number and are trying to quote unnamed 'experts' to justify it.
You should have been taught this in 7th grade science class.
You are not discussing science. Science is not a class.
 
On a related note, I was reading one of MIchio Kaku's books, Hyperspace, and on page 163 (see here as page 172 or 366)


He showed strings and gravitational force interacting and I recognized that there was a parallel between what he was saying and electrical theory using inductance and capacitance, particularly in coaxial cable. That got me thinking, What if there was a resonant frequency of the universe, like you can have in electrical circuits?

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What would be resonating?
 
What do you mean, specifically, by the quantum state of the universe? And how does it "resonate"?
A resonant frequency in electronics is one with minimal resistance to the passage of the signal. That is, it allows the signal to travel the furthest without degradation. In terms of the universe, it would allow various quantum and subatomic particles to move without resistance essentially. Of course, this is all speculative on my part.
 
That got me thinking, What if there was a resonant frequency of the universe, like you can have in electrical circuits?
According to the Many Worlds hypothesis, there is a single universal wave function that describes the quantum state of the whole universe. I'm not sure exactly how resonance ties into this universal wave function and the Many Worlds interpretation, but I bet at some level there's a relationship.
 
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