Alpha and Omega

Subject:	Alpha and Omega
Date:	Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:57:14 +0000

Starts and ends are problematic. Look at these examples:

1. The future is always in front, but always the last to arrive. Who,
then, can say which event comes first or where moments start and end?

2. Mathematics describes lines as being "infinitely dense". That is,
between any two named points on a line there lies a third point. This
poses a problem. This description of a line tells us that between any
two named/positioned points lies an unnamed or unpositioned point. If a
line has unpositioned points then its start cannot be distinguished from
its end.

3. Life is said to start and end. Life is also the framework in which
all events are describable. Events cannot be described if they fall
outside the framework of life. As starts and ends are described by what
comes before or after them, respectively, then life cannot have a start
or an end.

4. The universe started with the "Big Bang" and ends in the present
moment. But the present moment cannot be said to come after the Big
Bang. Is this not a "start and end" with no "before or after"?

5. A clock that ticks alone in a universal void cannot temporally place
any of its ticks. For no new consequences are pursuant upon different
placements.