Quote Originally Posted by poop
Edit: That of course assumes you know what you are talking about when you refer to a singularity and aren't just making shit up as you go along.
I think I know what I'm talking about when I refer to a singularity, at least from a cosmology point of view. It's not easy to describe, but I'll try... a region of spacetime in which a mass of >0 occupies a volume of 0, caused by the inability of light to escape the gravitational influence of the mass.

But it doesn't really matter, I was using the word in a metaphorical sense when applied to my idea of what the "present" is... a singularity in time. Like a black hole, it is zero when observed from outside, but from inside it is infinite. We're in the present, and it will always be the present, we observe it as infinite, because we always observe the present. Even though we know the past existed, and the future will exist (unless you're poop, then the future will merely probably exist). If we look at the present in a manner which takes into account the future and the past, 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.