Time is illusory...Bill!
--- In [email protected], Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote:
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> Â time is timeless... merle
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> Or 13,700 Million.Â
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> 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. Â Perils of the continuous advance of
> knowledge after one leaves school.Â
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> Thanks,
> Chris Austin-Lane
> Sent from a cell phone
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> On Sep 24, 2012, at 12:52, Edgar Owen <edgarowen@...> wrote:
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> Chris,
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> >The correct age of the universe is 13.7 BILLION years...
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> >Edgar
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> >On Sep 24, 2012, at 2:16 PM, Chris Austin-Lane wrote:
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> >>Slight nit pick: Â
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> >>The universe has only lasted about 14,700 million years; not million
> >>million years yet. Â
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> >>Thanks,
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> >>--Chris
> >>chris@...
> >>+1-301-270-6524
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> >>On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 11:07 AM, William Rintala <brintala@...> wrote:
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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
> >>1,300,000Â 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.Â
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> >>>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
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