On 23 Apr 2014, at 13:08, LizR wrote:
On 23 April 2014 22:29, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Liz,
The "billions" make sense to me, to be honest. Even before the
earth, we still didn't exist. It sounds like poetic liberty for "a
mind blowing amount of time".
Sure, but I think at the time "millions of years" was a mind-blowing
amount of time - actually it still is - and it would appear the
comment doesn't have any known source. So although I'd be happily
proved wrong on this, it just feels a bit anachronistic for Samuel
Clemens. Maybe just my personal bias.
Samuel Clemens? Was is not Mark Twain? I missed a post perhaps.
Do someone know the estimate of the age of the universe at the time of
Mark Twain? Einstein though it was infinite, and I thought that many
physicists (including believer in Big Bang(s)) don't exclude that.
(And if we are digital machine, we have to take *all* true sigma_1
sentences, not just the e^iH, and their linear superpositions, and
that is *very* big).
cf
On 23 April 2014 11:37, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
"I do not fear death, in view of the fact that I had been dead for
billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered
the slightest inconvenience from it."'
--- Mark Twain
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