Dear Narendra,
Regrettably you refused to take issue concerning the concrete question of mine you promised in my thread 369.
Your many voters show: Belief still wins against common sense. Even Einstein called himself a believing physicist.
I grew up among different beliefs. Therefore I share the conclusion that at best one out of many mutually excluding beliefs can be correct.
I disagree when you are claiming that physics needs God as Creator. Obviously, any subject has a beginning and an end. However, nothing comes from nothing. Why should we believe in and end of (ordinary) time? What dies just this moment is the uncertainty of what we might have expected. In this sense, (elapsed) time ends.
A Soviet-related joke: The greatest inventor ever was Popov who invented virtually anything including Faraday's law, Ohm's resistor, Wheatstone bridge, etc. There was just one greater inventor: Pipov, who invented Popov.
I apologize for being nearly blasphemic and at a time not bold enough as to be immediately understood.
What about 0 and 1, I wonder if you consider 0 a natural number. Ancient mathematicians considered 2 the first number after the fundamental unity 1. The 0 is somewhat tricky because it cannot be reached by continued division 1/x for growing x. Zero is formally the reciprocal of the actual infinity.
We are calling 1 the neutral element of multiplication and division but 0 the neutral element of addition.
Multiplication and division are related to addition and subtraction via exponential or logarithmic mapping, respectively. The range from minus infinity to plus infinity can be mapped to zero to infinity and vice versa. Also one can link the range from 0 to 1 to the range from 0 to infinity and vice versa.
Regards,
Eckard
The arrow of time ideally corresponds to the arrow of counting from 0 without any end.