Dressed like soccer referees, the trinity is also, for Roccasalva, a depiction of Zurvan, the Persian god
of infinite time, space, and fate, father of twin brothers, who are the personification of good and evil.Finally, all the elements are held together by a text in violet neon that can only be read by looking at it in the mirror.
Some researchers go further and envision a type
of infinite time that plays out not just in this universe but in a multiverse — a multitude of universes, each with its own laws of physics and its own life story.
Given two years to live, perhaps three at most, he felt robbed of «the background music» he had always taken for granted: «the music
of infinite time and possibilities... now suddenly... gone, replaced by nothing, just silence.»
Not exact matches
They were asked to rank themselves at that moment in
time on statements like: «I feel like most of my life lies ahead of me,» «My future seems infinite to me,» «Time is slipping away,» and «I have a lot of time in which to get things done.&ra
time on statements like: «I feel like most
of my life lies ahead
of me,» «My future seems
infinite to me,» «
Time is slipping away,» and «I have a lot of time in which to get things done.&ra
Time is slipping away,» and «I have a lot
of time in which to get things done.&ra
time in which to get things done.»
Self - publishing on Amazon is like putting an
infinite number
of your books in the center
of the world's largest bookstore.It costs very little
time and zero dollars to self - publish on Amazon.
While I have
infinite understanding, I have little sympathy because one
of the best tests
of someone's executive skill is their ability to control their
time and set their priorities.
Some models
of the Big Bang theory predict that the inflation that stretched space at the beginning
of time also produced an
infinite number
of «pocket universes,» separated by impassable inflated areas
of space.
Notably, unless we allow for the slope
of the current market advance to become quite literally
infinite, it's impossible to closely fit the current price advance without setting the «finite -
time singularity» — the point at which instability typically emerges — within a few days
of the present date.
A company with $ 10m
of sales and something unique can double its profits in a year, a company with $ 1b in sales is simply too big to double it's profits in a year, it takes
time and energy and capital for each incremental increase, and none
of these factors is
infinite» Adam Smith, The Money Game 1968
Because, a) long - short mutual funds are expensive, b) the nature
of shorting a stock means getting limited upside but
infinite downside, and c) active manager performance can wane over
time as assets under management increase.
If you have not yet gotten your hands on the
infinite possibilities
of level - creating that Super Mario Maker for Wii U has to bring, then get on over to Best Buy's website where for a limited
time, the technology super store is offering $ 20 off every purchase off the newest Super Mario title, plus one other select game for Wii U.
As I started buying traffic to promote what at the
time was my own budding consulting business, I was struck with how there is almost an
infinite amount
of niches that can be accessed using Google and pay per click.
The dieing sun uses the same red, painting the sky with the wonder
of the
infinite, where
time and space and your very soul are brought within a breathe
of each other, and your humanity begins to come alive.
WWJD tell me: if GOD decides with the
infinite power wand, to turn atheists at the last possible moment in
time into Christians, and you do not get to see them burn forever in your greatest place
of suffering, and instead they get a front seat at the table, how bitter and betrayed are you going to be?
It might as well be proven that we are doomed to exist an
infinite number
of time because
of pure mathematical reasons.
'» He takes a poetic stab at description: «It would be like plunging into the ocean
of infinite love, a moment in which
time — the before and after — no longer exists.»
The first line in the Bible says: In the beginning (
time) God created the heavens (space) and the earth (matter)... where does science with all
of it's
infinite knowledge say that
time, space and matter come from?
What this means is that
time is not some primordial container — an
infinite bucket
of moments — in which certain events happen.
Compare with James's view, quoted above, the following passage
of Charles Hartshorne: «If it be asked how the individual can be aware
of this
infinite range if his experience is finite, the answer is that it is only the distinct or fully conscious aspect
of human experience which is finite; while the faint, slightly conscious background embraces all past
time» (Beyond Humanism.
It also includes an
infinite number
of universes at one given
time.
To obey Paul's command for your children means giving them more than a rational faith — it means also giving them a well - formed Christian imagination that can look at a starry night sky and see more than the
infinite reach
of empty space and the eternal stretch
of endless
time, that can «keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand
of God» (3:1).
It would take an
infinite amount
of time to master and explore the universe.
Recent speculations in physics resulting in theories
of a finite world
of space -
time have however been taken by some philosophers as warrant for belief in some
infinite reality «beyond» the finite world, upon which that world is dependent.
[17] Hawking, 46, notes that at the Big Bang moment «the density
of the universe and the curvature
of space -
time would have been
infinite,» yet «because mathematics can not really handle
infinite numbers,... the general theory
of relativity... itself breaks down.»
It has inspired numerous speculative cosmological models in which the Big Bang was not the beginning
of time, but only one
of an
infinite number
of such explosions in a universe without beginning or end.
We never took the
time to show them the
infinite love and forgiveness
of God which God has shown us.
Craig attempts to purge the paradox by pointing out that the kalam argument contends only «that an
infinite number
of events can not elapse, not that an
infinite time can not elapse» (K 172).
Looking back I now realize I have been uncaring and unfeeling and self - indulgent an
infinite number
of times, and even though now I am trying to do better, my best efforts go wrong on a daily basis.
This query seems to lead inescapably to the conclusion that, in this case, there would be a successive actual
infinite, namely, the actual asymmetrical infinitude
of divine experience — not mere
time — prior to the hypothesized act
of special creation.
The central chapter on the Second Premise (K 65 - 140) contains: (i) a refutation
of the attempted application
of Cantor's transfinite mathematics to the domain
of extramental reality, (ii) two philosophical arguments which attempt to show the conceptual absurdity
of the notion
of an
infinite past
of finite actualities, and (iii) two arguments from physics (concerning Big Bang and Thermodynamic theory, respectively) which attempt to show that probably the natural universe had an absolute beginning a finite
time ago.
Unless one thinks that God's act
of creation is purely arbitrary — and it would be incoherent to attribute arbitrariness
of any kind to a God
of infinite goodness (an argument for another
time)-- then one must understand creation as a direct expression
of God's own Logos.
justpro86 The possible
infinite quality
of time is not something that can just be debated into solution as the Kalam argument would like to.
In explaining the scientific theory that the universe originated in a big bang, Paul Davies remarked: «The conditions at the big bang imply an
infinite distortion
of time, so that the very concept
of time (and space) can not be extended back beyond the big bang» (24).
2 C. J. Whitrow, «
Time and the Universe,» in The Voices
of Time (London: Penguin, 1968), pp. 567 - 68, and «On the Impossibility
of an
Infinite Past,» British Journal for the Philosophy
of Science 29 (1978), 39 - 45.
It is entirely possible that this is just the latest in an
infinite series
of big bangs and «big crunches» where the Universe ultimately collapses back in on itself, only to «Big Bang «again; our Universe may be one
of an
infinite number in a multiverse; or
time itself may have been created in the Big Bang.
And some aspects
of globalization, such as the explosion
of communications technology, can expand and strengthen religio - cultural diversity in a world that is, at the same
time, both linked and divided by a near -
infinite number
of electronic bands, channels, websites, and whatever comes next.
He is: • Supernatural in nature (as He exists outside
of His creation) • Incredibly powerful (to have created all that is known) • Eternal (self - existent, as He exists outside
of time and space) • Omnipresent (He created space and is not limited by it) • Timeless and changeless (He created
time) • Immaterial (because He transcends space) • Personal (the impersonal can't create personality) • Necessary (as everything else depends on Him) •
Infinite and singular (as you can not have two
infinites) • Diverse yet has unity (as nature exhibits diversity) • Intelligent (supremely, to create everything) • Purposeful (as He deliberately created everything) • Moral (no moral law can exist without a lawgiver) • Caring (or no moral laws would have been given)
If we were to take an imaginary tour through church history and visit pious worshiping communities all the way back to the New Testament
times, the overwhelming impression we would have would be the awareness
of the incredible diversity and
infinite variety
of styles and customs.
This passage consequently invites the paradox
of the growing
infinite which led James to deny the mathematical continuity
of time.
This still does not mean that every aspect
of an
infinite God was demonstrated during a finite
time on earth.
Now the question arises: How can any process in
time be accomplished through an
infinite number
of durations
of positive magnitude?
The difficulty which he pointed out was the result
of a confusion
of what James called the
infinite of things standing with the
infinite of things growing, that is, a confusion
of space and
time.
At the same
time, the gene story also shows how the virtually
infinite number
of possible chance combinations
of the many factors that constitute a person's biological inheritance explain and support the idea
of personal individuality and uniqueness.
The B - series side
of time taken alone will land us in Zeno's paradoxes because the B - series leads to isomorphism with the mathematical continuum and so to
infinite divisibility.
As a matter
of fact, in an
infinite or extremely large multiverse, anything that is very unlikely finally happens, even maybe a very large number
of times.
The path toward victory is not through beating yourself up every
time you fall, but through coming to know and understand the
infinite love
of God for you.
He rang the changes on sin more eloquently than anyone
of our
time, but that dissection, set forth with particularly telling power in the first volume
of his Gifford Lectures, was followed by a second volume in which his acknowledgment
of the power
of the gospel as grace made it possible for him to speak
of «the agape
of the Kingdom
of God [as] a resource for the
infinite development towards a more perfect brotherhood in history» (The Nature and Destiny
of Man, II [Scribner's, 1943], p. 85)
God is: • Supernatural in nature (as He exists outside
of His creation) • Incredibly powerful (to have created all that is known) • Eternal (self - existent, as He exists outside
of time and space) • Omnipresent (He created space and is not limited by it) • Timeless and changeless (He created
time) • Immaterial (because He transcends space) • Personal (the impersonal can't create personality) • Necessary (as everything else depends on Him) •
Infinite and singular (as you can not have two
infinites) • Diverse yet has unity (as nature exhibits diversity) • Intelligent (supremely, to create everything) • Purposeful (as He deliberately created everything) • Moral (no moral law can exist without a lawgiver) • Caring (or no moral laws would have been given)
Each actual occasion prehends the space -
time continuum in its
infinite entirety; that, says Whitehead, is nothing but an example
of the general principle (also illustrated by prehension
of qualitative eternal objects) that «actual fact includes in its own constitution real potentiality which is referent beyond itself.»
But then at whatever
time it takes place God would already have existed for an
infinite period
of time; and we would be faced with the Augustinian question
of why God chose to create the universe at that
time rather than at some other.