Subj : The universe
To   : JOHN WILSON
From : DAVE OLDRIDGE
Date : Tue Jan 23 2001 04:51 pm

JW> -=> DAVE OLDRIDGE wrote to TODD HENSON <=-

JW> Really enjoying your posts...

JW>  DO> ... Whether it's part of a larger meta-universe or not,
JW>  DO> that larger meta-universe does not exist IN our time.

JW>  One concept, which I believe in 'cause in *some* aspects of my life I'm a
JW>  man of faith :-)....I believe in the statement that there is no
JW>  `Universe time'

JW>  Does this mean that there are places that are..uh..subsequent to
JW>  our "now"...(*that's no big problem to my head-bone,hell that's
JW>  sorta like just distance...but:)
JW>  and there are places that are not yet now to us?
JW>  And somehow is depends on where in or out of the light-cone you are.
JW>  (You can see how confused I am). This pertains, I do understand, to an
JW>  event occuring. And the before and after being so determinded.
JW>  What I'm asking is the possibility of a "now" in which the
JW>  event has not yet occured? You say yes and my head will explode.

Essentially time implies an entropy increase along one or more 
dimensions.  But a singularity can present an entropic discontinuity.

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