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Full Idea
Three arguments that a temporal vacuum is impossible: we can't experience it, we can't measure it, and it would have no reason to ever terminate.
Gist of Idea
Temporal vacuums would be unexperienced, unmeasured, and unending
Source
Robin Le Poidevin (Travels in Four Dimensions [2003], 03 'Lessons')
Book Ref
Le Poidevin,Robin: 'Travels in Four Dimensions' [OUP 2003], p.36
A Reaction
[summarised] The first two reasons are unimpressive. The interiors of black holes are off limits for us. The arrival of time into a timeless situation may actually have occurred, but be beyond our understanding.
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