From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Mar 10 2003 - 17:20:21 MST
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?
I haven't had any time to follow this discussion, but I see now, Lee,
that you are coming around to the same position I argued for in the
thread called "What caused the universe to exist?", and to which you
objected then.
We cannot contemplate the non-existence of the universe -- our minds are
limited only to contemplating the non-existence of things in an existent
universe. Mathematically speaking, this means we should not regard point
0 in time as existent. In the beginning there was NULL time -- not quite
the same as point 0 in time.
-gts
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