[ale] [OT] Omniscient, Omnipotent, Omnipresent or Not.

[Jonathan Rickman]

On Tuesday 26 August 2003 09:48, hbbs at comcast.net wrote:

> This line of thought leads to the concept of "block time," in which all
> of time, and therefore all of space in all such time, is frozen as though
> in a big block of Jello.  If we were to drop everything down a dimension
> for the sake of illustration, it's as though a 2-D spacial universe's
> path is all spelled out in an unseen third dimension, time, and the
> combined structure would be the "block."  If we were 2-D beings, we would
> perceive the flow of time as a movement through the block in that unseen
> third dimension.  But, relativistic movement or distances within any 2-D
> plane in the block leads to "nows" that are something other than planar,
> i.e., my now ain't when your now is.

<Jonathan> Wipes drool from chin and shakes head.

I'm angry at numbers. There's like, too many of 'em and stuff. 
--Beavis and Butthead 

-- 
Jonathan Rickman
X Corps Security
http://www.xcorps.net


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