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To: PaperChase who wrote (75592)	11/16/1999 10:12:00 AM
From: Oblomov	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86076

The past and the future are not the separate realities humans perceive them to be. They coexist at the same time and flow in balance with one another. Based on his theory of time travel there are an infinite number of universes with an infinite number of future outcomes that have already happened. You should think about that next time you predict "the future" which has already occurred. I suppose you are being tongue-in-cheek here, but this is a vulgarization of Einstein's work. First, for the sake of clarity, "coexistence" implies existence at the same time, so "coexist at the same time" is a redundancy. In any case, the future, past, and present cannot exist at the same "time" by definition. Furthermore, Einstein, Dirac, and others have written of the irreversibility of certain events. For example, there is no way back from a move toward entropy (such as an explosion or market crash); although life itself appears to be an ordering mechanism, it does not "undo" entropy. While the experience of time in the Einsteinian model is relative to velocity within the reference frame, this does not imply that the future already "exists." Einstein's work does not necessitate predestination or fatalism. The perception of time by humans is its reality. The use of the space-time continuum as a physical model is useful primarily as a way of explaining phenomena such as gravitation, etc. Predicting the future may be fruitless, but paraphrasing Einstein when you obviously haven't read his work is the mark of a buffoon.

To: PaperChase who wrote (75592)	11/16/1999 10:32:00 AM
From: clochard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86076

>>based on his theory of time travel there are an infinite number of universes with an infinite number of future outcomes that have already happened. You should think about that next time you predict "the future" which has already occurred with an infinite number of outcomes<< Simply stating that there are an infinite number of numbers doesn't imply that you are rich. Whatever happens in this universe has no practical connection to any other. There is therefore only one direct event line in any one universe.