US, UK approves strikes on Syria

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while this universe has a finite age, it doesn't mean that time itself is finite. i-i-i thought you'd know that, rick

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wtf is happening to the thread topic!?! This could almost be a great topic for a separate thread.

Time isn't an isolated phenomenon anyways. We've known this since Einstein's work on special and general relativity, the spacetime continuum, summarized quite well by Minkowski: "Henceforward space on its own and time on its own will decline into mere shadows, and only a kind of union between the two will preserve its independence."



As far as the universe being either finite or infinite, we really just don't know. Work is still being done on, for instance, the "big bang," the hot initial state of gravitational singularity from which the entire universe exploded from and is still ever increasing in expansion. Work on this is pure speculation working from mathematical consistency. The work by the most acclaimed physicists in the field observe that time is the relative 4th dimension of the universe and more or less dissolves the closer it gets to the initial gravitational singularity. For now discussion of time with regards to the origins of the universe may very well be literally nonsensical.

This is also predicated upon the visible universe, quite apart from the work being done in string theory regarding the quilted, inflationary, cyclic and quantum multiverses.

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