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To: MCHVE who wrote (68739)	10/17/2015 4:14:49 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

The math of time, and the math of space are very similar if not the same. I've always wondered why time would be affected by the shape of the universe. I realize that time could not be constant if the speed of light is constant (one of them has to be able to change if space changes). Still, time in the abstract would seem to be something that ticks by itself. So, if time and space are nearly equivalent and we are living at or near a singularity in time, I think "now" is a good analog to a singularity in space. So by analogy, it would seem the universe can exist near a singularity. In the last few years there have been discussions (centered around Hawking's black hole theories) about what would be the effect of approaching a black hole. His latest writings indicate that he thinks there could be a difference between the event horizon and an apparent event horizon that would allow information to escape the black hole. Looking at time - It seems to me that that when the future possibilities "freeze" into the certain now then some information about the past are lost, forever. By analogy I would think a singularity in space would also lead to the loss of information about the particles sucked in. At the instant something (or some current event) reaches the singularity it will cover up the information about some previous thing or event. I guess that means I believe that the information about the past is frozen into the present, and that the past by itself does not continue to exist. That is why you can't change the past, because there is nothing left to change by the time it is past. By analogy, it implies that particles are truly smashed to nothing by the singularity of a black hole.