On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 9:41 PM, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > First, that's a causal loop. Not all explanations are in terms of causes. >
If a explanation doesn't **cause** a understanding then it's not an explanation. > > > Second, there's no evidence that time-like loops are possible. > In 1949 Godel found a solution in General Relativity that allowed closed time-like loops (aka time machines) but it only works if the universe is spinning and recent experimental evidence says it's not. Good thing too because causal loop s are paradox generators. > > Third, there's a lot of information in the sense you use it, that was not > there at the big bang - so where did it come from? > I don't know but I do know that a high entropy object contains more information than a low entropy object, so if the universe started out low entropy and if it's overwhelmingly likely that entropy will increase with time then it's overwhelmingly likely that information will too. John K Clark -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
