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DIMENSIONS OF THE UNIVERSE
Carbonrider, you answer Cory's basic and valid question--What is a dimension?--with the comment, "Dimensions are nothing more than degrees of freedom to move in or measure", which makes a lot of sense to me, THANKS!
For me, Reality has three basic components:
Nature, Nurture and Spiriture--a neologism, which I created, and use, to refer to the ability we, as human beings, have. We have the ability to reason, to imagine and be aware that we are self-aware, that is, spiritual beings.
Carbonrider, may I assume that you think of time as a dimension? Speaking of which, here is
MY CHRONOLOGY:Born Jan. 14, 1930.
Sept., 1947, at 17, I Entered Mount Allison university
www.mta.ca as a freshman--on my way
to a BA, I took basic maths, physics, English, French, Philosophy/Psychology (which, later, became my
major focus), along with Biblical Greek, Hebrew, History--including History of religions, philosophy, the arts and the sciences. This led to my interest, to this day, in reading about such subjects.
For more bio info, check out
www.lindsayking.ca &
www.flfcanada.com about the FAMILY LIFE FOUNDATION, which I helped get started in 1973, to serve the public good, especially those in need of help.
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CHRONOLOGY OF ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Interestingly, it was on Dec. 30, 1947, that the great Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) mathematician and philosopher, died and thus became free from the dimension we call time.
http://plato.stanford.edu/sear...,
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ABOUT the Steady State cosmology versus the so-called Big Bang theory:
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In my reading I, years ago, I discovered it was a Belgian Jesuit priest, Abbe Georges Lemaitre who, in 1927 spoke of what he called his "hypothesis of the primeval atom".
Before that, in the 1920s, Sir James Jeans was among the first to conjecture a steady state cosmology based on a hypothesized continuous creation of matter in the universe. The idea was then revised, in 1948, by Fred Hoyle ... and others. It is also reported that Hoyle, jokingly, referred to the Father Lemaitre hypothesis as a "Big Bang".
In my opinion, Hoyle's term was, and is, a misnomer. Rather than thinking of it as a big "BANG!" here is my opinion:
First, I make no claim that I am an astronomer. Simply using my imagination to think, know, do and grow, I prefer to say that, in the beginning, when there was nothing but a dark void (a black hole?) there was--at the right point--the beginning of a Great~Omni~Dazzlement--a darkness-dissipating flash of light.
BTW, for the latest info from astronomers, see the latest National Geographic, March 2014, p. 89-103.
As to the steady state cosmology: Theoretical calculations, astronomers tell us, eventually showed that a static universe was impossible under general relativity, and observations by Edwin Hubble had shown that the universe was--and is still is expanding.
G~Õ~D? --not a being, but Being itself. It is an acronym which, as a unitheist--
http://www.unitheist.org/ --some time ago, I concocted.
It inspires me to think of a
Great~Omni~Dazzlement--that is, light in motion, which Generates Organizes & Delivers. In good time--if we WILL it so to BE--it will continue to evolve into all that is beautiful, true and GOOD--that is, that which is god-like in each and everyone of us ...
Lindsay
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