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To: Cogito who wrote (179284)	1/14/2012 12:31:56 AM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) of 542141

Ira Flato had a physicist on today who tried to explain that. It made absolutely no sense to me. I've had physicist friends try to explain it as well. They try to explain it in plain English (like a loaf bread expanding in an oven; or like being on the outside of a balloon that is being blown up), but it doesn't make the slightest sense to me. They look so earnest when they are giving their explanation that I am sure they think that they are making sense, but I just don't grok it. My imagination just doesn't seem to run that way. As far as I am concerned, Kant was right with his antinomies--our poor little brains are not structured in a way that can grok the nature of space and time. The universe can't be infinite and it can't be finite, time can't have a beginning and it must have a beginning. A pity. These are a fascinating questions. Maybe because they are so paradoxical and enigmatic.

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