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A comment on John C. Mather: “There is no first moment of time” (2017). Parent comment

Re:John C. Mather: “There is no first moment of time” (2017) by lupire on Sunday September 11, 2022 @10:11PM (#32805256)
The point is that the theory works -- matches observed reality -- even without a "0 point", analogous to the positive Reals or Rationals.
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Re:John C. Mather: “There is no first moment of time” (2017) by hsn915 on Sunday September 11, 2022 @10:19PM (#32805321)
This is neither here nor there.

Suppose you have a "working theory" about how birds fly, but no theory about other things might hypothetically fly. Does that afford you to claim "Nothing other than birds can fly"?

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