--- In [email protected], "Bill!" <BillSmart@...> wrote:
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> Time is illusory...Bill!
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> --- In [email protected], Merle Lester merlewiitpom@ wrote:
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> > Â time is timeless... merle
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> > Â
> > 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,Â
the reign of the dinosaurs lasted less that 150 million years.Â
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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