--- In [email protected], "Rick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Scientific observation has shown that the universe is expanding in > all directions at an ever accelerating rate. When you play the > data "backwards" it leads back to a state where this ever expanding > universe existed as a single point. The linear picture that is > created is one of a still point that explodes outward and continues > to expand. It indicates a begining of some sort and then an arrow of > time. > > Personally I'm with you on the idea that there was no distinct > beginning and that there will be no distinct end, so how do we > explain the expansion of the universe? Maybe the universe is > expanding and contracting at an infinite rate, as if it is being > created and destroyed simultaneously. However our body bound minds > think in a linear fashion and when infinite creation is seen through > finite eyes it is seen/forced into a linear model. > There's a good book called Stalking the Wild Pendulum that 'proves' the true shape of our expanding universe as a torus, a donut shape, which is continually recharged by matter disappearing into black holes and being recreated in the center of the donut. It is by Ihtzhak(sp?) Bentov. I enjoyed his elegant simplicity of explanation, while resolving many contradictions, such as the one mentioned by Unc, between the Christian and Jewish traditions (linear concept of evolution), and Buddhist traditions (eternal concept of evolution). To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
