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To: Clappy who wrote (26509)	6/5/2003 3:35:55 PM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (2) of 104197

Clappy What you’re discussing is the general theory of relativity. The special theory is relatively <g> straight forward and comprehensible. The General Theory (which incls. forces and accelerations) took Einstein an additional ten years and some mathematical assistance. By no means am I an expert on the General Theory, so for definitive answers to your questions you will have to inquire elsewhere. Some of your statements bother me though. You seem to have an idea of 3-dimensionable space-time existing separate from the universe. Then at some point in space-time the universe starts (Big Bang) and expands from that point which you christen the “center” . You go on to discus such peculiarities as the “distance from the center”. From what little I understand of relativity, this flies in the face of the fundamental premise of even Special Relativity - i. e. there is no special place in the Universe like your center. Alles ist Relativ - all is relative. There is no space-time prior to the big bang. Space-time are properties we ascribe to phenomena in our universe. Many believe that space and time are merely the “averaged out”: properties of all of the elementary particles in our Universe. In any event, I know of no one, who from a Relativistic perspective thinks the Universe expanded into an already existing space-time continuum. Without mater concepts like space and time quickly become less than vacuous. So, not to wax religious, before ‘Let there be Light”, there was nothing - a nothing that is so nothing that it is difficult to conceptualize. No space-time, just nothing as in the opposite of anything (or at least anything that you as a being of this Universe are likely to conceive of). OTOH, given your quirky brain … lurqer

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