Re: Creation (long)

[DSCHROEDER@cc.weber.edu]

> For Dan and others:
>
>   I can't parse the locution "the big bang occurred at a certain point
> in time".   

Did I say that?  If so I apologize.  I can't parse it either.  But I
don't think I said it.  I don't like the "point in time" part, and also
I tend to avoid the term "big bang" for a variety of reasons.
Sometimes I use the phrase "the beginning of time as we know it",
or something similar.  You know, pretend that the equations are good
right up to infinite density, call that t=0.

>  Also, I am confused by all these distances that light travels.  From
> the viewpoint of the corpuscle,  it hasn't gone anywhere as all of its
> traveling is where it is.   Are not two events zero interval apart the
> same event?   Notice, that question is *not* rhetorical.  In space-time
> do we not have events rather than points?   Is a point defined even?

I'm not really sure what you're getting at here.

-dan