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From: cej@ll1.UUCP (Chuck Jones MMOCS)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: No time
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Date: Tue, 11-Sep-84 10:28:28 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 11 10:28:28 1984
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[What a cruel god, to knowingly make an Eve that will eat the apple.]

> 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

	It may plague you Paul, but it doesn't plague cosmic
evolutionists (those who hold that the universe evolved from a
single cosmic event, reguardless of the origin of life on this
planet).  It simply interests them.  According to the latest
theories, (sorry, but I don't believe that it would presently be
falsifiable), there was a point at which all the matter/energy in
the universe was in/at a single point, and the forces of the
universe were, for a moment unified.  At this point there was
extreme warping of the time/space "fabric".  Just prior to this was
the situation you envision.  For a timeless moment time and space
did not exist.  What caused the great blast of energy that "formed"
time and space is still anybody's guess, but the only "natural"
answer (and I have a very natural god) is that the oscillating
universe theory is the closest to what happened.


Catch you next time cycle		Chuck Jones
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