@mark noble,
Quote:An absolute vacuum is impossible,
I'd suppose the space between bodies to be a vacuum. Some volumes I'd even guess free of radiation. Or do you mean just at that moment when the Big Crunch ends with a "body" of zero diameter but infinite mass and duration of zero when time has stopped
..and is that what you mean by
"
Quote:but only by (not got symbol) infinity -1
",
so
Quote:The passage between infinity -1 and infinity -2 is the first frame of duration (Time).
Okay I guess you must mean that we're now living in a frame. Then a "frame of duration" must be your term for the above "instant" I've described, between the end of this frame and the start of the next
Quote:If you imagine our universe (in a balloon) as being in a near-vacuum,
Forgive me Mark but I'm floored by the suggestion. You seem to be saying there's an "outside" containing an "infinity". But there
is no outside
Anyway my Intuition objects to the idea of something so tiny suddenly becoming infinite. It just seems to be so much more likely that the Big Bang has the Universe getting bigger with matter radiating out in all directions and so decreasing in density
Thus I'd agree with the popular "scientific" concept that we're doomed to that "expansion" with particles accelerating apart in all directions while approaching absolute zero
..except of course that you and I have it all coming back together in the next Big Crunch
Quote: you can realise that 15 billion yrs here, is just a millisecond to that which is exterior to the balloon.
Again how can that be if there
is simply
no exterior
Quote:Lets give the balloon a name - 'Atom'.
Again Mark the apologies of an old man but are you now calling the Universe an 'Atom'
Quote:Now imagine the atom is surrounded by other atoms working in unison with other Almost-identical atoms…...…...but a grain of sand.
But now aren't we back to a single Universe with similar bodies--probably separated by great distances of course
Quote:It's like comparing the 10 billion yr or so, sun's lifespan to the striking of a match.
same effect - different vacuum.
I'd agree if what you're saying is that the passage of time is subjective with a humanoid but not to Her, Who has a more flexible perspective