Re: virus: Faith, Logic and Purpose

Marie Foster (mfos@ieway.com)
Wed, 19 Nov 1997 17:07:28 -0800


don roh wrote:
>
> Sodom wrote:
>
> > Robin Faichney wrote:
> >
> > > > From: Marie L. Foster[SMTP:mfos@ieway.com]
> > > >
> > > > >I must admit that the early part of the Universe's history is
> > > > difficult
> > > > >to conceive of, for me anyways. I don't have trouble with "life
> > > from
> > > > >none living matter though". Why do you have trouble with that?
> > > > >
> > > > >Sodom
> > > >
> > > > I do not have any problem with it. It is creation at work.

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> does the whole of the universe have greater or less density now then it
> did as
> a sigularity?? the universe is a constantly re-arranging constant. infinity
> + infinity = infinity.
>
> gomorah

Hmmmm... the easy answer here would be that the universe is expanding
into (non time - nothing ??? Not sure I have ever gotten a good
explanation of what we are expanding into) so it is getting less dense.

However your second statement about the universe being a constantly
rearranging constant is intriguing. I have wondered for a long time if
the problem that we have as human beings is that we simply do not have a
good range of senses to interpret the universe as it really is. While
we can not see in the infrared we have determined that this frequency
does occur and have developed instruments to measure or interpret it.
This is just one example.

I think a lot about the thought experiment that Carl Sagen introduced to
me in Cosmos about a two dimensional being only being able to see a
slice of something at any one time. We still have not gotten over our
inablility to perceive beyond three dimensions adequately.

Certainly infinity - infinity = infinity as well...

:0)

Marie