BS: When will time end?

Subject: RE: BS: When will time end?
From: jeffp
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 09:00 AM

When Roger finally stops bitching about Joe and the Clones, time will stop, the oceans will overflow and Hell will freeze over.

Oz has spoken!

Subject: RE: BS: When will time end?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 02:05 PM

I knew someone was going to say that. I'm prescient! I should go professional and charge big bucks.

Subject: RE: BS: When will time end?
From: Amos
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 02:17 PM

Duration, time, same same...in that they are both anchored to the single universal percept of persistence. Time looks like relative motion. But relative motion in turn hinges on the deep conviction of persistence of objects, each (at any scale) continuing to "be" (whatever that means for an object!) what it "was".

This is a very convenient construct, just like a freeway is a convenient construct.

That doesn't make it "true", just "real".

Liebenscheiss

Subject: RE: BS: When will time end?
From: jeffp
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 02:24 PM

Little Hawk, in December you could be a Christmas prescient.

Subject: RE: BS: When will time end?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 02:35 PM

The most recent observations have shows that not only is our universe expanding, but it is accelerating.... and unless we have a few figures REALLY wrong, there isn't NEAR enough matter in the universe to stop the process.... so there won't be any "Big Crunch" (no one has thought there would be for some time now) but there might be a "Big Rip"

Or the universe might end with Cold Death....    Unless it's around long enough that Heat Death gets it first....