On Feb 18, 2006, at 12:16 PM, keith_w wrote:
Righto! If there is no time, there is no before and after.
Ooops! No before, I'll go along with that. No after? Ludicrous!
Irrational.
Without time, how can there be an after? The term is meaningless
without the context of time.
Actually, there are some physicists who believe that time is
purely a human construct and does not exist outside of our
minds. I believe it was Scientific American that devoted a large
portion of an issue two or three years ago to those physicists
and their theories. In their viewpoint there is no past, no
future, just an ever-present now. All questions of origins are
meaningless in such a universe.
Even more proof that just because you have a degree in a science,
you have *not* been embued with sense and rationality along with
your textbook knowledge.
I'm not saying I agree with these physicists, or that I disagree with
them. Their theories have been peer-reviewed by people who know a
lot more about it than you or me. They are taken seriously by enough
of their peers to be published in serious academic journals in their
field.
IOW, being granted a degree in a science by an institute of higher
learning doesn't ipso facto confer intelligence.
I live in a university town. You only have to drive around a town
with a high population of PhDs to realize that.
Bob
