Kristine
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| Quote (k.e @ Aug. 16 2007,09:21) | Boy djmullen I hope you wear protection when you dredge that tard!
? ? | Quote | Cosmological ID — Who Designed the Designer?
GilDodg'em
Some insights can totally change one’s perspective. One of those insights for me was learning that time had a beginning at the origin of the universe. (Oops, “beginning” implies a point on the time line, so let’s change that to “a point of appearing.”) If time came into existence, then the cause of the universe could not have had a cause, or a history, or a beginning, or a designer, because all of these require that the cause of the universe be located on the time line of the universe, which did not exist prior to the creation of the universe. (Oops, can’t use “prior to” because that implies time.)
Thus, the question of who designed the designer is meaningless when it comes to the origin of the universe. The designer must be “it is that it is,” or if “it” is personal, “I am that I am.”
I realize that this twists one’s brain into a Mobius strip, but it does make sense if you think about it |
Here pass me that Klien bottle bong, you need a little bit of Moroccan in it raastaman, now light it up on the edge of a black hole and lie back. Sci. Am. how to build a time machine
See, that was easy wasn't it? The Designer made black holes so he could zip around the universe in no time and be in two places at once.
Tell me black holes weren't designed? It's obvious isn't it? Jesus just has to be in one, how else is he going to last an eternity.
? | Quote | ....At the surface of a neutron star, gravity is so strong that time is slowed by about 30 percent relative to Earth time. Viewed from such a star, events here would resemble a fast-forwarded video. A black hole represents the ultimate time warp; at the surface of the hole, time stands still relative to Earth. This means that if you fell into a black hole from nearby, in the brief interval it took you to reach the surface, all of eternity would pass by in the wider universe. The region within the black hole is therefore beyond the end of time, as far as the outside universe is concerned. If an astronaut could zoom very close to a black hole and return unscathed--admittedly a fanciful, not to mention foolhardy, prospect--he could leap far into the future.
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Heh, you missed this: ? | Quote | | Even if time travel isn't strictly paradoxical, it is certainly weird. Consider the time traveler who leaps ahead a year and reads about a new mathematical theorem in a future edition of Scientific American. He notes the details, returns to his own time and teaches the theorem to a student, who then writes it up for Scientific American. The article is, of course, the very one that the time traveler read. The question then arises: Where did the information about the theorem come from? Not from the time traveler, because he read it, but not from the student either, who learned it from the time traveler. The information seemingly came into existence from nowhere, reasonlessly. |
Quotminetastic!
(Yes, yes, Rich, I know. I'll get to it.) 
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