Abstract

Everything that exists in the universe has a beginning and an end, making it inherently finite. However, certain concepts, such as numbers, possess a beginning but no definite end, giving rise to forms of infinities. Upon deeper examination of reality, one fundamental truth emerges: time is the only thing that is truly infinite because it has no beginning. Everything that exists must have had a moment of emergence—a point at which it came into being. Even if something continues indefinitely, the fact that it had an origin means it is not truly infinite. The question of what happened before a given event, such as the universe itself, naturally arises. We can trace events backward in time to the Big Bang, yet the question of what preceded the Big Bang forces us to confront the very nature of time. The phrase "what happened before" inherently presupposes a temporal framework. However, if time itself had a beginning, then the concept of "before time" becomes meaningless. The only logical answer to "what happened before time" is nothing, since time is the sole entity that does not require prior existence to exist—it is self-sustaining. This leads to the realization that time is not only infinite and eternal but also non-existent in the conventional sense. If nothing else existed—no energy, no space, no laws of physics—time would still persist, as it is not contingent upon anything else. Time does not act, change, or possess properties; it simply is. This insight extends to the nature of randomness. There are two kinds of randomness: apparent randomness, which follows underlying principles, and true randomness, which lacks any prior governing law. The emergence of the universe was not truly random in itself, as its probability of occurring within infinite time was 100%. The only true randomness was not in the fact that the universe exists, but in when it came into existence. This leads to the concept of the Omnimoment, the moment where time itself originated—the first and only truly random event. Before the Omnimoment, not only did probability and possibility not exist, but even the very concept of time did not exist. Yet, time still emerged. This was not merely an unpredictable event but an event that had no prior framework for probability, making it the truest form of randomness possible. The Omnimoment represents the only true free event in all of existence, where time chose when to begin, and once it did, all possibilities followed. This paper explores this fundamental paradox and presents a mathematical framework to formalize the Omnimoment as the absolute boundary of knowledge, where existence and non-existence converge.