Does everything which has a beginning have an end?

Its quite possible that the universe will not end ie heat death. So if you say it began then no?

I never said the matrix.

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Photons, neutrinos, electrons, and positrons will outlive the Universe, even after 10^1000 years when everything is gone, and don't any of you disagree with me!

The universe isn't a 'thing', it is the set of all 'things'.

Knowingly or not, you have come upon the problem. If we take a set of things which have a beginning we can then split this into two further subsets. Those that have already been shown to have an ending, and those which have not yet ended if they are to end at all (i.e. those that have only begun).

In order to conclusively disprove the statement 'everything that has a beginning has an end' we would have to wait forever to observe whether the all of the latter of the two subsets contains things, or a thing, which has a beginning but no end. But this is impossible, and by extension this is why from a practical standpoint nothing can be concluded unless we were certain that the entire set of things with beginnings fits exactly into its own subset of things with endings. This also inevitably runs into complications because some things, such as the life of a star, last a very long time and we can never be certain that we are able to observe or infer the existence of all things with beginnings. If we were ever in a position to prove the statement true, it is likely that the statement would have become an axiom anyway.

I would have to disagree.

Although it's easy to say that pi begins with a '3' and doesn't end, I think this logic is flawed. I think that '3' serves as a pseudo-beginning and is just an essentiality following the way our number system works. The number of greatest magnitude taking the position to the far left and those of lower value take positions further to the right: tens | units | tenths | hundredths | etc...

There is no absolutely concrete objective reasoning that can support that '3' is at the beginning of pi, just, as it happens, '3' appears at the start of our representation of pi in decimal form.

Could you expand on this? Sorry, but I peeked at your posts. I am such a peeker.

i don't think so. i mean first of all... if what is said is true and at one time we assume that we start counting at one and others at zero... what is the last number then? is there an end?

No, as far as i'm aware: π (pi) has a begining, but has no end

Some ideas can be so persistent that it can be realistically bet that they might have no end such as that there will always be at least 1 living person who knows who Shakespeare was.

But more certainly:

The existence of opinion, of pleasure, pain, indifference/neglect and the '7 deadly sins' will probably never come to an end as long as there are living things. As long as there are, subjectivity will always exist. So will ignorance - ignorance is literally not knowing something. Even those who think they know a lot about a lot of things would be objectively wrong- they only know the tiniest percentage of all there is to know. The number of facts that the universe has ever made possible to come up with is infinite.

The existence of moving things.

The existence of particles.

when you drawing a circle, its having a beginning when you start drawing but when you finishing there is no end to the circle

That's not quite right. When you start drawing a circle, it isn't a circle, therefore there isn't a beginning to the circle.

Only when you finish the circle does it become a circle, therefore the circle has no beginning point.

and a circle having no end


go looking in dictionary, start is meaning synonym for beginning

No, you misunderstand me.

When you start drawing a circle, up until the moment when the circle is completed, all you have drawn is a curved line. When you complete the circle, the circle doesn't have a beginning point or an end point as it is a circle.

Hey, I was just wondering this question. For example, humans have a beginning to life and an end which is death. Pretty much everything in the world has a beginning and an end, but is this true for every single thing? Is there anything which doesn't follow this pattern?

Death never ends.

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I would argue no.

For an example: Numbers.

Death never ends.

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