Nothing Exists

If the present is all there is and neither the past your the future exists then what happens to the present when it's over? If your thesis is correct then the present is constantly coming into existance while simulatenously going out of existance. Yet, how can something both exist and not exist at the same time? This is logically impossible. Something cannot exist and exist at the same time. One of the central questions is this? How long does the present exist as we perceieve it? Once we've perceived of something it is no longer the present. Our minds cannot perceive things in the present, because by the time we've perceived something it is already gone. Let's leave the present for now and move onto perception. If our world is a collection of perceptions by our own minds then there is no way of knowing what reality is. The only evidence that what we see and hear is real are the things that our minds interpert. However, we could simply be brains in a vat. Our minds could be being kept alive in some kind of liquid somewhere and what our brains are perceiving are merely electrical impluses from our brains. What we think of as reality could simply be delusions of our minds. There are few things in life that our consistant. Quantum physics shows us many of these examples. For instance, if you were to accelerate at a very high speed, for instance, half the speed of light, and a beam of light was shot towards you in the same direction, you might expect to see the light travel towards you at a slower than normal rate and slowly pass you. As experiment after experiment shows us, however, this is not what happens. What really happens is that you see the light pass you at the full speed of light. The speed of light is the same no matter how fast you travel from it. While tihs does show that the speed of light is constant it reveals an even more disturbing truth, that space and time are being bent and shifted by your very speed. As you accelerate time begins to move more slowly for you. Go fast enough and you would "travel into the future" meaning that what might seem like a year to you could be a hundred years for someone who is relatively stationary, say someone on Earth. Yet this makes no sense. If reality is independant of our perception of it then how can time and space bend based on our mere movement. Time and space should remain constant if it is unaffected by our prescence. This leads into the uncertainty problem. The most famous of which states that if there is a cat in a box you cannot be sure if it is alive or dead, you can't even be sure if it is there or not. However, you cannot answer the question by opening the box because the mere fact that you are observing it will affect the outcome. If you open the box the cat might be there, but it is impossible to say whether the cat was always there or whether it "appeared" because you observed it. This may or may not be true of cats, but the story is told to explain the behavior of subatomic particles which, apparently, do behave this way. There are subatomic particles which seem to come from nowhere and go to nowhere. There are subatomic particles that are shifted into strange directions for seemingly no reason at all. There are even Tachyons which may be able to travel faster than the speed of light, meaning they could move backward in time. All of this doesn't make sense. When you start to get into quantum physics logic seems to break down and things behave in unusual ways. They don't follow any kind of universal laws of motion or causality. However, if the world existed independent of our interpertation of it then why would these things happen? Why is it that when we try to get down to the building blocks of our "existance" logic breaks down. It is possible that what we see as reality is not reality but only a construct of our own minds, which (as I mentioned before) could be in a vat of some liquid somwhere or may not exist at all, only as a dream of someone from a reality that actually exists. You state that the present is infinite (although it passes out of existence immediately, which is a logical impossibility) some people believe the universe is infinite. They believe this because it is one of the only ways to explain existence. They say that a big bang created everything we see before us and that everything that the universe is made of has alway, and will always, exist. But what created the big bang? Also the big bang does not explain the creation of the material that made up the big bang. Only that it existed was fused and then exploded out. Where did all this come from? And how did life come from non-life? The material of the big bang couldn't have been alive as we know it because the conditions of life didn't exist in the big bang. There is no logic behind these things. They presuppose a host of extraordinary events that defy logical thought. In fact, they seem to be inventions of the mind, which would make sense if existance didn't exist and was, in fact, a product of either our own minds of the mind of some person that exists in an actual existance. For all we know, we could be characters in a book of some alien world. For all these questions there are no logical answers. That coupled with the fact that the present cannot exist and simultaneously not exist leads to only one conclusion. There is nothing that exists. Thank you for your time.