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To: Alamo-Girl
Or to put it another way, space and time do not pre-exist, they are created as the universe expands.

If you say so. Is the universe expanding? Does time and space depend on an expanding universe? I don't know.

What is is. If we are waves, and selection events like asteroids or gamma ray bursts are waves too, then evolution reduces to destructive or constructive interference between waveforms. Reality becomes the inevitable consequence of an initial asymetry in the birth or rebirth of the universe. We are then simply the result of anti-entropic local forces in a universal sea of entropy.

144 posted on 11/18/2008 12:53:21 AM PST by PasorBob
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To: PasorBob; betty boop
Is the universe expanding?

Yes, the universe is expanding.

Does time and space depend on an expanding universe?

The universe isn't expanding "into" anything. Space/time is created as the universe expands. Space/time does not pre-exist.

Cosmic microwave background radiation measurements since the 1960's consistently agree that the universe is expanding - which also means there was a beginning of real space and real time.

Jastrow pointed to that observation as the most theological statement ever to come out of modern science. The first phrase of Scripture is "In the beginning, God created ..."

In the absence of space, things cannot exist.

In the absence of time, events cannot occur.

Without space/time there is no physical causation. And without space/time there are no quantum fields, waves, physical laws, constants etc.

Reality becomes the inevitable consequence of an initial asymetry in the birth or rebirth of the universe.

Are you arguing for strong determinism, i.e. predestination?

146 posted on 11/18/2008 10:08:18 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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