Jonathan- Wednesday, March 23, 2005, 9:12:13 AM, you wrote:
LJ> However, if something caused this 4-D space to come into existence - LJ> well, that was an action. For any action to actually happen, there must LJ> be some sort of time. Er... no. Humans have a hard time wrapping their minds around the idea that time simply didn't exist "before" the big bang. Time as a dimension came into being at the same... er... time... as the other dimensions. Trying to talk about time before the Big Bang is like trying to imagine cutting a board to a length of -2 feet. My favorite way to look at time, though, is to examine the Planck length, theoretically the smallest unit of distance. So if there's a smallest distance and the speed of light in our universe is constant and limited, then there's a smallest increment of time; that being the time it takes a photon to traverse the Planck length. If there's a smallest increment of time, then time is quantized. This means that time is not a river flowing from the past to the future, but a series of motion picture frames blurring together into the illusion of constant movement into the future. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
