I completely agree with the points that Pat made.
Summary: (01)
1. There is no part or aspect of the universe that is self
contradictory. As I said in other notes, you can state all
observations using only the two operators of conjunction
and existence without using any negations or any operators
defined in terms of negation. Since at least one negation
is necessary to create a contradiction, it's impossible for
any set of observation statements to be self contradictory. (02)
2. Contradictions might arise between observations and somebody's
proposed "laws" of nature. But that is not nature's fault.
That's the fault of the people who proposed those "laws". (03)
3. As Pat said "Most logics say nothing at all about eternity
or otherwise, but those that do address temporal continuity
allow for eternal entities." (04)
4. Also as Pat said "There are solutions to Einstein's general
relativity equations in which the universe is finite in all
dimensions (including time.)" (05)
5. Quantum physics applies to invisibly small entities. Since
people can't see such things, their commonsense intuitions
don't apply to such things. But so what? The mathematics
that people have invented can handle them quite well. (06)
John (07)
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