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Full Idea
The present is the boundary between past and future, therefore if there was a first moment of time, it could not have been present - because there can be no past at the beginning of time.
Gist of Idea
The present is the past/future boundary, so the first moment of time was not present
Source
Robin Le Poidevin (Travels in Four Dimensions [2003], 05 'Limits')
Book Ref
Le Poidevin,Robin: 'Travels in Four Dimensions' [OUP 2003], p.77
A Reaction
How about at the start of a race the athletes cannot be running. How about 'all moments of time have preceding moments - apart from the first moment'?
| 22918 | What could have triggered the beginning [of time and being]? [Parmenides] |
| 312 | Time came into existence with the heavens, so that there will be a time when they can be dissolved [Plato] |
| 1526 | Almost everyone except Plato thinks that time could not have been generated [Plato, by Aristotle] |
| 617 | It is hard to see how either time or movement could come into existence or be destroyed [Aristotle] |
| 22925 | The present is the past/future boundary, so the first moment of time was not present [Le Poidevin] |