--- In [email protected], cardemaister <no_reply@...> wrote: > > > http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/james_jeans.html > > From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the > Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician. > > The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine. >
Finite picture whose dimensions are a certain amount of space and a certain amount of time; the protons and electrons are the streaks of paint which define the picture against its space-time background. Traveling as far back in time as we can, brings us not to the creation of the picture, but to its edge; the creation of the picture lies as much outside the picture as the artist is outside his canvas. On this view, discussing the creation of the universe in terms of time and space is like trying to discover the artist and the action of painting, by going to the edge of the canvas. This brings us very near to those philosophical systems which regard the universe as a thought in the mind of its Creator, thereby reducing all discussion of material creation to futility. Sir James Jeans "The universe around us" page 317.
