Re: Why Must God be Caused?

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 16:28:07 +0000 (UTC), "Mylon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>"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
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Time can't be started or stopped. It just is.
>
>Time can be stopped.  If you can travel at the speed of light, anyway.

It's an illusion, like pressing the pause button on your VCR.

>> 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.

Since you have not observed an experiment where there was no time it is
a theory with no basis in fact.

>> 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 incorrect.

>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".

That is one theory, but just like the origin of everything such information is outside
our range of knowledge.

>> 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.

You do not understand correctly. You may have been reading too many
comic books.

>If you could be transmuted into antimatter, you would go backwards in
>time (though you would still grow older).

Time travel is not possible with any technology. There is simply nowhere to
go. Only this instance actually exists.


-Barry
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