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- From: weaver@chdasic.sps.mot.com (Dave Weaver)
- Subject: Re: The First Cause argument (again)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.145832.14094@newsgate.sps.mot.com>
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:58:32 GMT
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- In article 1jq6q3INNm6g@srvr1.engin.umich.edu,
- ingles@engin.umich.edu (Ray Ingles) writes:
- > weaver@chdasic.sps.mot.com (Dave Weaver) writes:
- > >
- > >"Brief History" is near the top of my "to read" list. But I am somewhat
- > >familiar with his arguments, as I have read a couple of commentaries on
- > >the work. As physicist Frank Tipler notes,
- > > "... a four-dimensional sphere of zero radius forms a boundary to
- > > Hawkings universe. ... He [Hawking] has eliminated the classical
- > > singularity -- the beginning of time -- only to have it re-appear
- > > as the "beginning" to the space of all possible four-spheres."
- > >A quantum singularity is substituted for a classical singularity, and the
- > >problem of "beginning" is not eliminated.
- >
- > Of course, that same Prof. Tipler published a paper wherein he proposed
- > a design for a time machine. (He had sound relativistic reasons for
- > doing so, though.)
- > What does this say about your case aove?
-
- Not much, unless one goofy idea means everything else the guy says is
- worthless. (But I see your point, and will refrain from quoting Tipler
- in the future.)
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- Is it nonsensical that Hawking's imaginary time dimension could be
- bounded? If so, why?
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- Dave Weaver | "The impression of design is overwhelming"
- weaver@chdasic.sps.mot.com | -Paul Davies (on the cosmos)
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