When people say “the universe began 14 billion years ago,” do they realize that this is not true in the slightest? It’s not true not because they aren’t measuring things accurately. Rather, it’s not true because the standards of measurement cannot have possibly remained unchanged over such a time period. To put it crudely, this […]
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“14 billion years” (a pet peeve)
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged space, temporality, time on September 13, 2013 | 7 Comments »
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