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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cosmicforce who wrote (7910)	9/10/2001 11:30:29 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

300,000,000 metres per second. 2 metres is 6.6 nano-nano seconds. in hooverland.

To: cosmicforce who wrote (7910)	9/11/2001 1:14:52 AM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

I had this thought experiment a while back that goes like this. You are in a corner of the universe that is being destroyed. You are floating in the middle of a giant lead planet the size of Jupiter. The planet is hollow. All of a sudden your nearest star goes supernova. The mass of the lead delays the event by the inverse of the refractive index of the lead. So, while it may not be very reassuring, you have delayed the "present" of your experience of the explosion (relative to the external reference frame) for probably several hundred milliseconds. Then you are dead.