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To: one_less who wrote (65688)	5/15/2006 5:52:56 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Will time have an end? Who knows? I've claimed that time is merely a dimension. Not an original thought. What dimension has any beginning or end? Mathematics tells us that dimensions have no end. We can speculate with confidence that our unique individual experiences in time will end since we observe that condition in all creatures. Will time as a phenomenon in general end? The measurers may end but time will not. We have adopted a certain dimension of time, which by happen stance is tied to the single revolution of the earth around the sun. Arbitrary. Meaningfull for crop planting, but arbitrary. You could similarly ask, "before man, was there time?". There was no one to measure it. There was no one to declare when a day had passed there was no time. Though it would also follow that there were no other dimensions in space either. However, if there is experience beyond what we have observed in temporal life, there may be unique qualities that we wont be able to fathom until in or of that realm. As with a rain drop, you would have to look outside the limitations of a tree to see how moisture is not dependent on its enmeshment within the tree. Since we cannot see outside our temporal experience until we have left its limitations, we are bound by patience and hope or nothing at all. It would have been far simpler to say, "Our understanding of the universe is neither complete or perfect." jttmab