Subj : Re: The universe
To   : Dave Oldridge
From : Joshua Lee
Date : Fri Nov 17 2000 06:16 am

-=> DAVE OLDRIDGE wrote to JOSHUA LEE <=-

 JL>  DO> copious astronomical evidence in support of this.  If this model
 JL>  DO> is correct, then "before" the Big Bang is about as meaningless as
 JL>  DO> "north of the North Pole."

 JL> Are you contradicting or agreeing with the classic understanding of
 JL> creatio ex nihlo? (Or, as we say in Jewish thought, yesh m'ayin.)

 DO> As long as it's understood that the creation of matter and space
 DO> coincides with the creation of time, I don't think I see a
 DO> problem.  It's this notion that there is actually a "time" before
 DO> the beginning of time that I'm objecting to.

Rebbe Nachman of Breslov was of the opinion that time was essentially
a result of constricted conciousness. He uses the moshul of a dream,
when we dream, we can imagine that hours or even entire lifetimes
go by; but when we wake up, we realize that only minutes passed.
So it is with time in general.

                       JBL

.... What is mind? No matter! What is matter? Never mind! - Homer S.
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