hmmm....an interesting notion indeed.....

well, when you take into account the definition of infinity, i think it is best to also define "linear time" and "circular time".....infinity and circular time are more or less the same thing, although circular time CAN take into account a sort of "reincarnated" effect, whereas "infinity" is just forever and ever, somewhat following a linear progression, but with no end or beginning....

us humans live on a linear time scale (obviously).....not only does time (yrs, months, wks, hours, minutes, etc.) seem to progress forward, but science seems to inform us, via evolution, that time also appears linear....you had the big bang, the formation of stars, galaxies, planets, then a single celled organism, then asexual organsims, then lil' protozoan thingy's, then fishes, then amphibians, dinosaurs, apes, ape-men, man, etc, etc, etc.......

but the ever plaguing question is how could it have all started? there's a term (and i can't for the life of me remember it, and i don't have my book with me at the moment) and it basically says that everything had to have an ancestor....you had to have your parents, they had to have their parents, them theirs, and etc, etc, etc......

now then, how is it existence came to be? what could have started it....but more importantly, how did that "necessary being" (God, goddesses, the "big bang," that which was first) come to be?

if there exists this "necessary being" then evidently, even it wasn't what was first....for, the notion of "motion" would have to predate this "necessary being".....if i may use a rough analogy.....think about wakin' up and seein' your room (think of sight in this aspect as the necessary being), but itz the motion of your eye-lids opening that predates your sight......

so the term infinity was thrown out there as a way around this puzzling question.....only problem is, is that with infinity you still are stuck with that term of ancestory (you, your parents, their parents, etc) and it doesn't real solve anything....

which is where circular time comes into play.....

even scientists (astrologers) seems to think circular time might be possible.....that whole theory about the big bang, where the universe is expanding, only to contract via a massive black hole, only to explode again, would suggest a form of circular time.....

now, whatz interesting is the theory that space isn't even physical, that space will exist even after this contraction.....i forget his name, but it starts with a P (Paluck...or sumtin' to that effect) had this theory that space existed even before any physical particle.....even calculated how long it was after the big bang that the firt particle surfaced, and it was many, many, many, many years........

so whatz interesting here is that if there was existence prior anything physical, what is it that existed?

obviously, the metaphysical would be applied here.......and this opens up a whole new can of whoop-ass (so to speak) on the theory of time in general....

basically, if you can believe or reason that there is in fact a metaphysical existence as well as a physical existence, and you can believe or reason that the metaphysical existed prior the physical, and if you can believe that the big bang theory and Paluck's theory is correct, and that the universe will one day collapse in on itself, then circular time (infinity) looks to be pretty damn justified.....

but the problem now is what all does circular time entail?

well......if the metaphysical is indeed infinite or circular, and the physical will one day die out, only to be reborn again, what is it thatz reborn?

is it the exact same universe? have we had this conversation already before? or is it slightly altered, but more or less still the same? or is it sumtin' completely different?

in my opinion, i think itz bound to be something either slightly altered or completely different....i think a lot of the same physical properties will exist, but i doubt it will all happen the same way....but it very well could....

but in my opinion, i believe that the metaphysical exists in circular time while the physical exists in linear......but like i said, if after the re-birth itz slightly altered, meaning some of the same physical properties exist, then surely this would suggest the physical as being circular as well.....

but in the end, i do believe in circular time.....