Re: Why Must God be Caused?

"Barry OGrady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 22:07:17 +0000 (UTC), brain in a jar
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> Time can't be started or stopped. It just is.

Time can be stopped.  If you can travel at the speed of light, anyway.

> Have you observed an experiment where there was no time?

A traveller experiences time at a factor of (1-(v/c)^2)^(1/2) with relation
to his surroundings (the reference frame with which velocity is measured
from).  At the speed of light, this factor becomes 0.

> It did seem a bit arrogant.
> Perhaps I should have said that current scientific understanding says that
time
> can't have a beginning or an end.

Time is a dimension, and has just as much a beginning and end as the other
dimensions.  That is, they might have an end (due to gravity, we do not live
in cartesian space, and thus there may be an "edge" of the universe, though
it's probably something that would land us on the other side of the universe
rather than cause us to "fall off".

> Time is not an object that can be manipulated.
> Our current scientific knowledge tells us that everything either had a
beginning
> or it did not, but neither makes sense. If there was a beginning what came
before?
> If there was no beginning we could go back infinitely in time.
> Clearly the facts our outside of our current ability to understand.

Anti-matter, if I understand correctly, is matter reflected across the time
axis.  If you could be transmuted into antimatter, you would go backwards in
time (though you would still grow older).

> > - brain
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