On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 09:08:35AM -0700, John Ross wrote: > > > What I also believe is that time is absolute and passes at the same speed > everywhere in our Universe. In other words we could measure how much time > has passed since the Big Bang, we would all get the same answer. I read > somewhere that the Big Bang occurred 13.72 billion years ago and that the > number was accurate to 4 decimal places. I understand some galaxies are > moving away from us very fast maybe at speeds close to the speed of light. > Would the people in those galaxies make the same estimate as we do? If so > that would indicate to me that the passage of time is the same everywhere in > our Universe. > >
Sounds suspiciously like another Edgar. But Edgar accepted special relativity... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
