On 01-21-98 Richard Meic wrote to William Elliot... 
 RM>  WE> Theoretically at the big bang. For people it begins at birth. 
 RM>  
 RM> I REALIZE that, William... but why MUST time have a beginning?   
because without the other dimensions, time is not measurable and 
undefined.  Only as mass and energy have expanded from the point 
of origin, and the rate of motion or propagation discernable will 
it have any meaning. 
 
No change, no time.  If, as postulated, that space is curved by 
gravity: and light, or any vectored wave, is bent, and thus it 
must return to the source, then one would conclude, that for all 
practical purposes anyway, the universe is not infinite, albeit 
rather large projection in several dimensions, time being that 
which we use to refer to the relationship changes among some of 
the others. 
 
Inasmuch as we know that there are somewhat more than 3 of these 
dimensions, I do not know that time is a relevant term to whatever 
changes may, or may not, exist in the relationships these other 
dimensions may have, at pardon my pun, this time. :-} 
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