time is timeless... merle
Or 13,700 Million. It's not a British Billion yet, still a few orders of magnitude to go. Not sure why I switched the 3 to a 4. Perils of the continuous advance of knowledge after one leaves school. Thanks, Chris Austin-Lane Sent from a cell phone On Sep 24, 2012, at 12:52, Edgar Owen <[email protected]> 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 >>[email protected] >>+1-301-270-6524 >> >> >> >>On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 11:07 AM, William Rintala <[email protected]> >>wrote: >> >>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 >> >> >> >
