Re: Two Times
George Murphy (gmurphy@raex.com)
Mon, 20 Dec 1999 22:10:30 -0500
Massie wrote:
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> George Murphy wrote:
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> > Bert Massie wrote:
> > >
> > > George Murphy wrote:
> > >
> > > > Bert Massie wrote:
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> > > > > A Tale of Two Physisists:
> > > > >
> > > > > For those on this line who have it all figured out, I would like to pose
> > > > > a question.
> > > > >
> > > > > Consider that God put two physicists into the Universe about 100,000
> > > > > years after the beginning according to the Big Bang cosmology. These
> > > > > physicists have identical clocks on them and are immune to the insults
> > > > > of radiation, gravity gradients, and the lack of a Journal to publish
> > > > > in. By some means their clocks are synchronized and set at zero. One
> > > > > happens to be located at a point in space which eventually becomes a
> > > > > very massive neutron star. The other happens to be at a point which
> > > > > becomes intergalactic space. By some further means we at current epoch
> > > > > read their clocks (I will ignore the consequence of how this comes
> > > > > about.) The neutron star physicist states that his clock has elapsed
> > > > > 400,000 years and the intergalactic physicist says his has elapsed
> > > > > 10,000,000,000 years. Again, I ignore the details.
> > > >
> > > > A very rough parallel to this problem would be the problem of how
> > > > Abraham and the rich man can hear one another across the "great gulf" between
> > > > them in the afterlife in Lk.16:19-31.
> > >
> > > Not exactly. Unless you believe that these spirits had a physical body and
> > > physical hearing. Bert
> >
> > Do flames (v.24) torment bodiless spirits? ...................................
>
> Actually yes. Also, Jesus is a Lamb.
>
> So, I suppose we need to see some language as figurative. Bert M.
Bingo!
George L. Murphy
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