On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 09:08:35AM -0700, John Ross wrote: > > > What I also believe is that time is absolute and passes at the same speed > everywhere in our Universe. In other words we could measure how much time > has passed since the Big Bang, we would all get the same answer. I read > somewhere that the Big Bang occurred 13.72 billion years ago and that the > number was accurate to 4 decimal places. I understand some galaxies are > moving away from us very fast maybe at speeds close to the speed of light. > Would the people in those galaxies make the same estimate as we do? If so > that would indicate to me that the passage of time is the same everywhere in > our Universe. > >
Sounds suspiciously like another Edgar. But Edgar accepted special relativity... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
