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From: hardlj@drutx.UUCP
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Subject: Re: No time
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Date: Wed, 12-Sep-84 14:53:04 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 12 14:53:04 1984
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> As far as the age of the universe is concerned, I believe the
> current estimate is 15 Billion years.  I suppose *something* had
> to be around back then, but what was there before that?  One of
> the puzzles that has plagued me is that all light has a source
> somewhere.  If you went back far enough in  time, it seems that
> you should theoretically reach a point where there was no light in
> existence.  Since the speed of light is the constant by which we
> measure time, could there be any such thing as "time" where there
> is no light?  I digress.
>
> Paul Dubuc 		{cbosgd,ihnp4}!cbscc!pmd

	Carl Sagan wrote an interesting chapter about time before he
wrote the more celebrated book 'Cosmos'.  Unfortunately I can not
remember the book's name in which it appeared.  Sagan presented the view
that time in the negative direction might be an infinite regression.

definition of infinite regression by example:  Suppose you are
standing one mile from your house and every ten minutes you walk
half way from where you are currently standing to the house.
How long does it take you to reach home?

Get the picture?

According to Sagan's theory, there is no absolute beginning.

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