Subj : Re: The universe
To   : JOSHUA LEE
From : TODD HENSON
Date : Wed Dec 06 2000 01:50 am

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


1) How would that square with the scientific idea that time is an integral
component of our 
continuum called "space-time"? 

2) Since space and time have been found to be so intertwined, then would it
also follow that 
space is also just a result of constricted consciousness?

3) If the answer to (2) is "yes", then what metaphysical implications can
be drawn?
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