Monday 9 July 2007

Time

Now they believe they have identified the beginning of the universe. The beginning of time. Before that there was nothing.

Er, wait. Nothing? How does that work? There must have been SOMETHING there, or the universe couldn't have formed. And if there was something, then that something had an existence, before time began.

What is time anyway? It is relative, it is somewhat arbitrary, it is inaccurate. It is a measurement placed by us to measure the passing of time itself. If we place it upon our surroundings, then how do we define when it began, surely it began when we learned to measure it? Which is considerably later than the beginning of the universe.

:-/

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