Re: 11 questions about the Universe

From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Sat Jan 20 2001 - 20:32:52 MST


From: "zeb haradon" <zebharadon@hotmail.com>
> * Why does time have a direction when, except for minor exceptions,
> microscopic events are time-symetric.

Time has to have a direction because if it had no direction clocks
wouldn't know which way to turn.

> * What came before the big bang?

The *previous* big bang came before the big bang.

τΏτ

--J. R.

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Life is the strange loop of a snake releasing itself from its own grip,
unmouthing an ever fattening tail tapering up to an ever increasingly
large mouth, birthing an ever larger tail, filling the universe with this
strangeness.
--KK



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