Salutatio Keith!
07-Feb-98, Keith Knapp wrote to Mark Bloss
          Subject: Time and Again
 KK> Einstein once said, concerning relativity, that time is what
 KK> clocks measure and nothing more.  I have no idea what he meant by
 KK> that.
He may have simply meant to make people use their "noodle".  I
would very much like to think up a statement that achieves that
same result, to have other people think about what is meant long after 
my death with no definite conclusion,... and I am working on it.
 KK> If we assume the big bang model and wind the clock back to its
 KK> earliest moments, we see that at some point pressures and
 KK> temperatures were so great that atoms could not form; at an
 KK> earlier point protons and electrons could not form, etc.  If
 KK> matter as it now exists could not exist, then time as we know it
 KK> could not exist. We could call this "the beginning of time", but
 KK> at some point we would be getting into the tangles created by
 KK> human concepts of 'cause' and 'first cause' and such.
                                    
What was the cosmic singularity inside of?
 Dicere...
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Richard Meic
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