[MD] FW: Quantum weirdness

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Case <Case at iSpots.com>:

> [Case]
> > I think the point here is that whatever "caused" the big bang or whatever
> > "happened before" it have no causal impact in our world. Space and time 
> > for us start at that point. It is the first cause.
> 
> [Platt]
> How can space and time be created since it takes time and space to create?
> 
> [Case]
> Space and time are not "things" and they certainly aren't separate "things".
> They are one. Time is evident in the first spatial dimension. The first
> dimension is a line connecting A to B. If you can specify a distance between
> the two points it can be expressed in units of time or space equally well. 
> 
> Matter is space/time bent in on itself. You must have seen those gravity
> wells that let you roll a coin into the center. The coin gets faster and
> faster as it rolls in ever tighter spirals until it falls into a hole not
> much bigger than the coin. Matter is this kind of curvature of space itself.

So you're saying time and space weren't created, or what?




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