Cyclical View Of Time Solves All

I did not complete the Q & A for this week. As such, I'll post some of my general thoughts about time.

Though the cyclical view of time, in a sense, gets rid of the notion of beginning, middle, and end, it does not properly/adequately solve the problem. The cyclical view of time leaves us wondering how exactly this cycle started; it still has the problem of invoking an infinity that we humans are not actually mentally equipped to comprehend. So, it hardly provides us with an answer, and is, at this point in our knowledge, no more useful than the linear view of time. Maybe eventually we will be able to understand it.

My second problem of the cyclical view of time is that it would necessitate determinism and exact repetition. Even if the "end"/collapse of the universe is what causes the "beginning"/expansion of the universe, I think that it would extremely unlikely that the universe would be exactly the same way as it was before; It seems unlikely that planets and stars would form in the galaxies, and it's unlikely that life would evolve in the same way. If the universe forms  in entirely different ways, then I would not venture to call it cyclical exactly; I would say that it is linear, and that there is causation between the "end"/collapse and the next "beginning"/expansion falls on the line.