Quote Originally Posted by OngBonga View Post
Like a black hole, it is zero when observed from outside, but from inside it is infinite.
What is "it?" Are you certain it's the same it both times?

Regardless, whoever told you that was making it up. Ain't nobody observed inside an event horizon, let alone a singularity. The math falls apart at the singularity, and that's just GR. GR has no exclusive dominance on this corner reality since QM really needs to be included, and ... uhhh ... we're working on that, but it's slow going.

Or, I mean... publish your findings and live long enough to be awarded your Nobel Prize in Physics.

Quote Originally Posted by OngBonga View Post
We're in the present, and it will always be the present
No.
You're in your present.
I'm in my present.
The sun is in its present.
Each of our clocks move at different rates. There is no single spacetime coordinate which we share exactly, so there is no meaningfully objective present to talk about. Each particle exists in its own present, and those presents are uniquely related to each other. Those relations are unique. I mean: there is a unique spacetime coordinate for every particle in the universe, and the magnitude of the spacetime between any 2 particles is the same for all observers.

Quote Originally Posted by OngBonga View Post
We're in the present, and it will always be the present, we observe it as infinite, because we always observe the present.
A) Who the hell is "we," and why did they choose you as their spokesman? I did not receive the memo.
B) You can't possibly observe the present, because you are a chemical machine which uses electro-chemical signals to harness and interpret your sensory data and then to perform your thinky-thoughts on. You can only actually be aware of the immediate past, even under the best circumstances.
C) That's not even accounting for the fact that the events you perceive aren't even in that order for all observers, so who are you to say which happened first or last or simultaneously in your present? Your present is unique to you, but all presents are equally unique in that regard.

Also, what do you mean by, "we observe it as infinite?"
Do you mean we observe the present to be unending?
Would you say it's fair to interpret this as saying that we observe space and/or time and/or spacetime to be unending (unbounded)?
If so... how do you mesh that with the presence of event horizons and singularities? These seem like clear boundary conditions on the observable universe.

Quote Originally Posted by OngBonga View Post
Even though we know the past existed, and the future will exist (unless you're poop, then the future will merely probably exist).
I can only support poopadoop's position vis-a-vis the probable future.

Quote Originally Posted by OngBonga View Post
If we look at the present in a manner which takes into account the future and the past
You mean GR.

Quote Originally Posted by OngBonga View Post
the present is zero, which is why it is not definable in terms of nanoseconds.

Thus, the present is both zero and infinity, depending on how you measure it.
Shit. I get what you're saying, here, dude.

The integral of ANY FUNCTION over a null domain is always zero.

integral{ ANYTHING, from [ongbonga] to [ongbonga] + [delta_ongbonga] } = 0
if [delta_ongbonga] = 0.

By stating the time-width of the present is 0, you undercut any ability to extrapolate what the flow of time is like based on anything in the present.