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

To: one_less who wrote (24339)	7/3/2006 11:54:36 PM
From: LLCF	Respond to of 28931

"Rather than linear"........... it's too scary to contemplate. :) <<Time must be exactly one dimensional, otherwise we would find past, present and future twisted around like a complicated Gordian knot with 'loops' that violate the universally observed rule that you can never revisit your past. Strange things DO happen to time in the quantum world, however.>> I like this guy, he's "funny": west.net ""If we had zero memory, we could not detect time - we would exist only for the moment. The result of this is our apparent perception of time as a linear line, always going forward. This is similar to primitive peoples perceiving the Earth as flat."" DAK

To: one_less who wrote (24339)	7/4/2006 9:26:18 AM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 28931

Rather than linear, what if time is circular; its infinity so broad that we are unable to detect the curves The problem with that is that time is a part of space. You are essentially arguing for the steady-state universe model. That model has been shown to be contradictory for several years. If time-space were eternal, then by the first principal of thermodynamics it would have lost it's structure by now. More importantly, infinite time implies infinite space. If space were infinite then there would be some star out there at every viewing angle, and the night sky would be light instead of mostly dark. schoolsobservatory.org.uk Steven Weinberg wrote in 1972, The steady state model does not appear to agree with the observed dL versus z relation or with source counts ... In a sense, the disagreement is a credit to the model; alone among all cosmologies, the steady state model makes such definite predictions that it can be disproved even with the limited observational evidence at our disposal. The steady-state model is so attractive that many of its adherents still retain hope that the evidence against it will disappear as observations improve. However, if the cosmic microwave background radiation ... is really black-body radiation, it will be difficult to doubt that the universe has evolved from a hotter, denser early stage.