MU!
On 9/24/2012 3:52 PM, Edgar Owen wrote:
Chris,
The correct age of the universe is 13.7 BILLION years...
Edgar
On Sep 24, 2012, at 2:16 PM, Chris Austin-Lane wrote:
Slight nit pick:
The universe has only lasted about 14,700 million years; not million
million years yet.
Thanks,
--Chris
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On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 11:07 AM, William Rintala
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sics. In geology we speak of hundreds of millions of years, just
as Joe might speak in terms of billions or million millions of
years and even those chunks of time are but an instant in
eternity. Life on earth began 600 million years ago, the reign
of the dinosaurs lasted less that 150 million years. Humanity's
earliest ancestors didn't show up until less that 5 million years
ago. The last Ice Age ended 12,000 years ago. The first
domesticated animals, 10,000 years ago. The first evidence of
writing 4,000 years ago. Each human life lasts but 100 years,
that's 0.00000017th the span of all life, 0.000000005th the span
of the age of the known universe. We live on a planet which
seems significant yet 1,300,000 Earths could fit inside of our
Sun and that Sun is only a medium sized star in a universe of
uncountable stars (billions and billions according to Carl
Sagan). From the furthest known reaches of known space our
sun could not be seen.
This is my perspective regarding Zen. First the concept of
Infinite Time and Space. Huge, beyond imaging. An infinite
Infinity of Infinities is still nothing. It is no time or space
at all. Given that infinite space and infinite time and given the
demonstrated size and length of our physical existence and
percieving myself as th
