Subj : Re: The universe
To   : Dave Oldridge
From : John Wilson
Date : Tue Nov 07 2000 04:51 am

-=> DAVE OLDRIDGE wrote to JOHN WILSON <=-

 JW> -=> TODD HENSON wrote to JOHN WILSON <=-

 JW>  >  >  TH> ...If the
 JW>  >  >  TH> universe had a beginning, then it is
 JW>  >  > perfectly rational to wonder
 JW>  >  >  TH> about what came before it.

 JW>  If at some time you began to love your wife, where was your love before
 JW>  that happened? That the kind of argument here; you use
 JW> the word "rational"
 JW>  as if it were appropriate.

 JW>  If the universe had a begining, that begining was the very start of
 JW>  that before which there was nothing.

 DO> Not necessarily.  The world has a North pole, but there is
 DO> nothing north of it.

 DO> And I'm not being facetious here.  Time-space does seem to focus
 DO> on a singularity that we refer to as "the beginning" and we see
 DO> copious astronomical evidence in support of this.  If this model
 DO> is correct, then "before" the Big Bang is about as meaningless as
 DO> "north of the North Pole."

 Christ, but misunderstanding is easy. I thought I just said what you just
 said! :-)



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