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echo: philos
to: RICHARD MEIC
from: TODD HENSON
date: 1998-02-11 03:02:00
subject: Time and Again

 MB> Therefore, "time" loses its meaning
 MB> in the context of infinity; because there is no contextual
 MB> dimension with which we can _reliably_ claim any moment is
 MB> definite.
 RM> Regardless of whether time is infinite in duration or not, an hour
 RM> takes the same amount of time to pass and a millenium takes much
 RM> longer. 
Depends on which frame of reference. Relativity...
 MB> Now, let me pose a question: scientists have grasped hold
 MB> of the idea that the universe is expanding.  What, pray tell, is
 MB> the universe expanding into?
 RM> Empty space?  I see no reason to think of anything more elaborate or
The universe IS space. The universe cannot be expanding into empty space
because the thing we call space is part of the universe itself. "SPace" is
an expanding continuum.
 
... Blue Wave - World Tour - 1998
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