by S. Bilderback » Tue Nov 22, 2005 1:08 pm
Harry,
Your history of the universe has a few holes in it, here a few points for starters.
The half live of all protons is 10^38 years, the energy released by a decaying proton has a signature that would have to be much more uniform though out the universe if matter and energy were simply recycled.
And then there is the mathematical representation of time. Time has to move in segments, to take one second and divide it in half over and over there needs to be a point where the smallest unit of time is reached or there would need to be an infinite number of segments and we are back to having to divide by zero. Also by definition, if a time segment was infinitely small one second would equal one hour which would equal 100 billion years. The same it true about the age of the universe, if there was not a start time and is not an end time, one second would still be equaled to 100 billion years.
Harry,
Your history of the universe has a few holes in it, here a few points for starters.
The half live of all protons is 10^38 years, the energy released by a decaying proton has a signature that would have to be much more uniform though out the universe if matter and energy were simply recycled.
And then there is the mathematical representation of time. Time has to move in segments, to take one second and divide it in half over and over there needs to be a point where the smallest unit of time is reached or there would need to be an infinite number of segments and we are back to having to divide by zero. Also by definition, if a time segment was infinitely small one second would equal one hour which would equal 100 billion years. The same it true about the age of the universe, if there was not a start time and is not an end time, one second would still be equaled to 100 billion years.