From: Gina Miller (echoz@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Mar 26 1999 - 20:00:20 MST
Philadelphia experiment.
Gina
>From: "Ross A. Finlayson" <RAF@tomco.net>
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.com
>To: extropians@extropy.org
>Subject: Re: accelerating universe and Leslie constraints/What's..
>Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 21:57:58 -0500
>
>Depends upon how it was "broken", one would think. This gives some new
>meaning to the term "time bomb."
>
>An interesting sci-fi book on this subject is _Time Storm_, by Gordon
>Dickson.
>
>Time is the fourth dimension, or a component of it. We move through
>3-dimensional space in time. Theoretically, movement through time
would
>take place in 5-space.
>
>"Absurdity."
>
>Ross F.
>
>Gina Miller wrote:
>
>> So, if we broke the time barrier, would it alter the extent of the
>> universe?
>> Gina "nanogirl" Miller
>>
>> >Gina Miller wrote:
>> >
>> >> What's the wall look like?
>> >
>> >There is no wall.
>> >
>> >>
>> >> If there is no end, what is there?
>> >>
>> >> Don't most physicists believe it's infinite?
>> >
>> >No they don't
>> >
>> >> Some one once told me, to imagine that you are a 2
dimensional
>> >> person, so the world would appear only as a sphere to you, if you
>> >> started at the North pole and walked to the South pole, you might
>> think
>> >> you're at the end of the world but there's no wall, you're not
really
>> >> and the "end".
>> >> Is it something like this?
>> >
>> >Somthing like that. Think of the universe as a balloon. Everything
>> >presently existing in the universe exists in the rubber surface. The
>> past
>> >is the inside, the future is the outside. You are always in the
>> surface,
>> >you cannot escape it, since when you go forward or backward in time,
>> the
>> >surface is there with you.
>> >
>> >Mike Lorrey
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
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