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To imagine an infinite past with no beginning, you have to let go of one of our deepest intuitions: that everything must have a starting point. That time is like a rope that is cut somewhere, and you reach the end. But in this view, time is more like an endless fabric, unspooling without origin, without end.

The answer is that it never started.
An infinite past means time extends backward forever. No matter how far you go, there's always more behind you.

There’s no “first moment,” no point where time or the universe began. There’s just a sequence of events stretching back eternally:

Every event has a cause. That cause had a cause. That cause had a cause…and so on, without limit.

It’s not that the universe sat around forever and then suddenly “started.”
It’s that it was always happening.

There’s no origin point to appeal to.

There was no “nothing” before something.

No act of creation—just eternal becoming.

It forces us to abandon the idea that existence needs permission to exist. Instead, it just is unfolding in patterns, cycles, and possibilities, across an infinite past and future.

You are not standing at the edge of a rope, but riding a ripple on an endless sea.