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Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity

Message-ID <56370464.3084@ix.netcom.com> (permalink)
Date 2015-11-01 22:36 -0800
From The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups sci.physics.relativity, sci.physics, alt.philosophy
Subject Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity
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Henry Wilson DSc. wrote:
> 
> Humans are surrounded by objects that often move. Those objects are defined in
> terms of spatial intervals and their movements in time intervals. All the space
> and time intervals we experience have a beginning and an end. We cannot
> mentally understand how any such interval can extend to infinity and we know of
> none that does.
> 
> Because we observe that INTERVALS of time and space have beginnings and ends in
> the physical sense, we wrongly deduce that the basic dimensions we know as TIME
> and SPACE should themselves also possess physical beginnings and ends when in
> fact they are only mathematical scales.
> 
> In other words, because our knowledge of the universe is based entirely on
> intervals, we misconceive the space dimension itself to be an interval when, in
> fact, it is just a convenience used to define inter-relationships between
> spatial intervals.
> 
> The mystery of the apparent infinite nature of both space and time is therefore
> shown to be just a psychological misconception. The word 'infinite' has no more
> relevance to space or time that it does, for instance, to the colour red. It is
> only meaningful with regard to dimensional INTERVALS and in the physical world
> all intervals must be finite by definition.
> 
> 



Infinity is a movie with no ending but it is still in film production.


The Starmaker

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Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity ..@..(Henry Wilson DSc.) - 2015-11-01 05:40 +1100
  Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity Wayne Olmstead <wayols@eclipseevenet.org> - 2015-10-31 18:47 +0000
    Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity HGW <xxx@....> - 2015-11-01 15:45 +1100
  Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 11:58 -0700
    Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 14:58 -0500
      Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 21:54 -0700
        Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-01 07:52 -0600
          Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-11-01 10:14 -0500
            Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2015-11-06 08:23 -0800
          Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2015-11-01 10:32 -0800
            Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-01 13:02 -0600
              Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2015-11-01 11:13 -0800
                Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-01 13:24 -0600
                Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2015-11-01 11:34 -0800
                Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-01 13:43 -0600
                Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2015-11-01 11:55 -0800
        Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2015-11-04 14:15 -0800
          Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-11-04 14:49 -0800
            Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-11-04 18:26 -0500
      Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-11-08 09:36 -0800
  Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 14:51 -0500
    Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity HGW <xxx@....> - 2015-11-01 16:12 +1100
      Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-01 07:57 -0600
        Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity kefischer <emoneyjoe@iglou.com> - 2015-11-01 10:03 -0500
          Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity Wayne Olmstead <wayols@eclipseevenet.org> - 2015-11-01 15:08 +0000
        Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity ..@..(Henry Wilson DSc.) - 2015-11-02 04:44 +1100
          Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-01 13:05 -0600
            Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity HGW <xxx@....> - 2015-11-02 08:16 +1100
              Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2015-11-01 13:32 -0800
              Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-01 19:28 -0600
                Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity ..@..(Henry Wilson DSc.) - 2015-11-03 01:51 +1100
                Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 09:07 -0600
                Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity ..@..(Henry Wilson DSc.) - 2015-11-03 06:58 +1100
                Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 14:09 -0600
                Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity HGW <xxx@....> - 2015-11-04 16:30 +1100
                Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2015-11-04 06:07 -0800
                Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-04 11:42 -0600
                Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2015-11-04 11:44 -0800
                Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-04 13:57 -0600
                Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2015-11-04 15:02 -0800
                Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-04 17:14 -0600
                Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2015-11-04 15:55 -0800
                Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-11-04 19:26 -0800
                Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2015-11-04 19:47 -0800
                Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-11-05 15:33 -0800
                Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-05 17:44 -0600
                Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2015-11-05 16:04 -0800
                Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2015-11-05 19:42 -0800
              Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-11-04 14:50 -0800
  Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity alt.fan.jai-maharaj@googlegroups.com (Dr. Jai Maharaj) - 2015-10-31 19:52 +0000
  Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-11-01 22:36 -0800
    Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity ..@..(Henry Wilson DSc.) - 2015-11-03 01:52 +1100
      Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-11-02 08:59 -0800
        Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity Henry Wilson <HW@home.com> - 2015-11-06 09:10 +0000
          time is not a dimension per se (it is awareness of dimensionality noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2015-11-07 18:04 -0800
  Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity "Y.Porat" <y.y.porat@gmail.com> - 2015-11-01 22:46 -0800
  Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity "Y.Porat" <y.y.porat@gmail.com> - 2015-11-07 00:00 -0800
    Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2015-11-08 08:58 -0800
      Re: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity "Y.Porat" <y.y.porat@gmail.com> - 2015-11-09 05:47 -0800

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