The Question of Time Infinity

the question of time infinity:

time is of change in the matter that makes up this reality. if we assume change is eternal, then yes, we could expect linear time to be infinite, that another second will follow on from this second, another year from this year, and so on.

but of change in matter, in the total of different states matter could have, what if this number for each least bit of matter is finite? also, assuming that matter could change back to a former state, that repetition occurs, that in a sense time could go backwards, so to speak.

the other assumption, of course, is that matter changes, never to fall back to what it once was, that each state is different to all those of the past, that change is a long road to infinity. now this does not seem likely given how stable this reality is. red is still red, blue is still blue. if this assumption were true would we not always see new colours that we had never seen before?

if we accept that time could go backwards, that repetition occurs in states, we arrive at the theoretical possibility that repetition for the whole of reality could occur, that eventually, we will be locked into a grand infinite cycle of change, where we repeat everything, forever. this is like the theory of eternal return or recurrence, but here we could assume that the start of time does not repeat, but everything after a certain point. this is unless some least bits of matter could have an infinite number of states.

let us imagine a very little reality composed of 4 least bits of matter joined together. change is such that matter does revert to past states and let's say there are only 4 finite possible states for each of these 4 least bits of matter. therefore there are only 4 quadrupled equals 256 maximum possible combinations of states at any one time, and here we can easily imagine repetition for the whole of this reality to happen.

now let me say i do not understand the metaphysics of change and how neighbouring matter affect each other. and perhaps the period of time each state lasts has an infinite range and so perfect repetition, so to speak, is not the case.

CLEARCHARGE