1 posted on
10/26/2004 7:36:37 PM PDT by
ckilmer
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Next up -
A $2 billion dollar study on why water is wet!
226 posted on
10/27/2004 5:43:40 AM PDT by
MamaTexan
(I am NOT a 'legal entity'!)
To: ckilmer
Better check with AlGore. He may have been involved with the Big Bang ;)
232 posted on
10/27/2004 7:19:34 AM PDT by
JZelle
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234 posted on
10/27/2004 8:05:20 AM PDT by
JimRed
(VOTE LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDED UPON IT...because it may!)
To: ckilmer
time is simply the movent of an object in space. if nothing moved, there would be no time. And, since and object cannot move in two directions at the same time, time only goes in one direction. forward.
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236 posted on
10/27/2004 8:14:24 AM PDT by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything!")
To: ckilmer
In a universe of finite entropy, some scientists have proposed that a random fluctuation could trigger inflation. This, however, would require the molecules of the universe to fluctuate from a high-entropy state into one of low entropy-a statistical longshot. Molecules?
239 posted on
10/27/2004 9:13:27 AM PDT by
AndrewC
(I also think that Carthage should be destroyed. - Cato)
To: ckilmer
..why time flows in one direction? Because otherwise, poop would fly up our butt.
(For more details read, Phillip K. Dick's "Counterclock World" (one of his few stories not made into a movie yet))
240 posted on
10/27/2004 9:16:15 AM PDT by
TC Rider
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To: ckilmer
I think if John Kerry gets elected, we will know this.
He has a plan. I don't know what it is but he does have a plan. "Stronger Universe, Respected in the Universe." He might have it in his website. "Have you driven Kerry lately?"
It is Bush's fault that we don't know this.
Bush's tax cuts to the rich has caused our scientific community to not to know this.
To: ckilmer
Awww, that's what they said the last time....
264 posted on
10/27/2004 4:00:27 PM PDT by
Mobilemitter
(We must learn to fin >-)> for ourselves..........)
To: ckilmer
Julian Barbour, in his book
The End of Time, argues that the passage of time is an illusion. I reached the same conclusion using different assumptions and logic than he. The mathematician Rudy Rucker was allowed to visit Kurt Gödel (an intellect possibly superior to Einstein, and a contemporary of his at Princeton) shorthly befor his (Gödel's) death. He asked: "What causes the
illusion of the passage of time?" Gödel answered obliquely, but did not question the premise of the question.
I have been reading about time for a long -ahem- time. The more I read, the more confused I become. There is a deep mystery here, one that human minds may not be adequate to unravel or understand.
I've also been reading widely and deeply about Buddhism. Not that a 53-year-old Jew is going to convert. But Cordwainer Smith (perhaps one of the littlest-known and most under-rated of all science fiction writers) referred to the Buddha as "the Saint who defeated time by realizing what it is and stepping aside."
I sent Barbour a list of questions after reading his book twice and he (or his bot) responded: "The questions you pose are deep. I hope to someday soon have time to begin to answer them." I suspect if I'd suggested that time is made of curdled milk, I would have received the same response.
--Boris
265 posted on
10/27/2004 4:34:12 PM PDT by
boris
(The deadliest weapon of mass destruction in history is a Leftist with a word processor)
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270 posted on
10/27/2004 6:55:11 PM PDT by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything!")
To: ckilmer
Carroll and Chen extend this idea in dramatic fashion, suggesting that inflation could start "in reverse" in the distant past of our universe, so that time could appear to run backwards (from our perspective) to observers far in our past. Carrol and Chen must have been enjoying the same gin soaked raisins that Ms. Kerry has been nipping on!
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