EvC Forum: Kalam Cosmological argument

cavediver writes:

In the standard Big Bang, close to the Big Bang itself, time does not behave in the way to which we are accustomed, and at T=0, the only direction is forward in time. There is no backwards in time, for there to have been a before.

The universe is four dimensional and if God created the universe (and I believe he did) then he created all four dimensions as well. This means the whole universe came into existence, but not at any particular point in our time. The Big Bang, the Big Crunch, now, yesterday and next week, are all parts of that creation. If the universe is infinite in extent (spatially and/or temporally), then exactly the same idea holds. God brings the whole universe into being...

I hate to get involved in a discussion where the other posters actually know what they're talking about, but I have some questions.

In physical terms, is infinity just a mathematical concept or do you see it as literally true.

If time in an infinite universe is depicted as a circle would it be correct to say that the period between the BB and the BC, (or however else time as we know it ends), could be depicted as a tear drop attached to the circle so that time flows out of the large circle travels around the tear drop and then flows back into the large (infinite) circle again?

I keep reading about multiple universes. I think of THE universe as being everything that is our multi-glactic system and the space in between. How do you define a universe? When Barbour talks about each moment of time being an eternal universe I can't imagine what that might look like.

If we live in an infinite universe would it be reasonable to think that what existed at T=0 was infinite energy?

Can you help?

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