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John Stein wrote:
> 
> --
> John Stein <jstein@tfs.net>
> 
> Haplo <pjjwever@euronet.nl> wrote in article
> <3336d1f3.2150423@news.euro.net>...
> > >Time as having no beginning and no end? Isn't this the description of
> > >eternity? Timelessness?
> > As Dries van Oosten pointed out this doesn�t mean that time is
> > infinte. It should be seen as a sort of ball, where you keep running
> > around on the surface.
> 
> So I just go in circles and keep coming back to the same place? I don't
> quite follow this one.

imagine a glob, now follow the equator and tell me how many times you
cross you starting point before you reach a boundrary.

this is what they are talking about, the same way you can make a 2D
space
(surface of a globe) finite without any boundraries by curving it in
another
dimension.  it is hard and possibly impossible to imagine how a 3D space
curved around in 4 dimensions would look, but the equations exist to
describe
such a situation.

all we have to do now is find out if space is positivly curved or 
negitiavly curved.



> > >This doesn't mean time as in going faster to do
> > >it in less, but to travel in some way as to make our current
> understanding
> > >of time irrelevant. Perhaps this means, then, that we find some manner
> of
> > >entering eternity as a method of overcoming both distance and time.
> > >
> > You mean something like:
> > - Now I�m here.
> > - Blink to eternity
> > - Blink, now I�m there (say 1 sec. later, and 3000000 lightyears
> > further)
> 
> Yes, I suppose so. Leave a temporal dimension, enter another where time and
> distance are irrelevant, and pop out at your destination 3000000 light
> years away. It's profoundly speculative. Is there anything scientifically
> substantial to hint at such a concept?

not that has any real foundation to it.  lots of neat theoritical
ideas try to create this kind of concept, but none have been
proven to any real degree.


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