Re: No Planck limit for time!???

From: scerir (scerir@libero.it)
Date: Sat Mar 08 2003 - 16:58:31 MST

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    From: "Lee Corbin"
    > Our concepts of the early universe often involve extremely early
    > instants in the chronology of the universe, e.g., 10^-43 seconds
    > (the Planck time). A number of our conceptual troubles, it seems
    > to me, arise from insisting that the point 0 be included in our
    > discussions. Why not regard the instant of the big band itself,
    > 0, as not existing?

    Good point.
    http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/adolf_grunbaum/theological.html
    There is a long discussion about this in a beautiful book by
    Max Jammer. I do not remember the title, something like
    Eistein & Religion, Princeton U.P. ?
    s.



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